Warmer Weather in the Quad Cities...Eventually!

It's gotta warm up sometime soon, right?  The average temperature so far this June is way below normal and we have a few more below average days coming up!  Several factors are leading to the relatively cool weather, including an abundance of clouds lately!  Check out this plot of forecasted temps over the next 7 days.  There are a couple things worth pointing out:

1.  Notice the slow, but general warming trend thru the next 7 days.  We should be closer to normal next week!
2.  Look at the forecast early on in this period, namely today.  The observed temps show up as black dots, notice how this afternoon the black dots are below all of the model guidance?  That's because the clouds stuck around for basically all of the day, a few times we tried to clear things out but overall the clouds came out on top today!

Also, check out this forecast from the NWS CPC.  It shows some warmth building in the south/southwest 8-14 days from now.  Eventually we'll warm up but it definitely won't be a repeat of the heat wave from last summer!  Last June by the way, we had an average high of 84.5°.  This June's average high so far has been about 70°!