Monday, September 2, 2013

September Stats



I hope everyone enjoyed the beautiful weather on Labor Day, temps were very close to normal for early September.  Now that we're into the 9th month of the year here's a look at some September climate stats for the Quad Cities:

Temperatures
Avg on the 1st - 82/60
Avg on the 30th - 71/48

Hottest Sept temp ever: 100° on September, 6, 1922 and September 15th, 1939
Coldest Sept temp ever: 24° on September 28, 1942

Last September's overall average temperature was 62.7° compared to the normal Sept average temperature of 65.4°.

Precipitation
The average rain in the month of September is 3.09".  In September 2012 we picked up 2.19" of rain as we continued the drought of 2012.  The wettest September ever in the Quad Cities was in 1970 when we received 14.18" of rain!  The driest September ever?  That was 1979 when it barely rained at all (0.02"!)

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