Where's The Rain?

I feel like a broken record. All weekend I've been talking about the dry weather and the lack of rain during the month of August during our newscasts this weekend!

That's because the QC's only picked up 1.08" of rain so far this month. The Quad Cities are 1.87" below where we should be for August and 3.12" below normal for the entire year.

Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that we'll pick up much rain this week either. As of right now, Tuesday is the only day we could see some rain, but the system is rather weak so not everyone will see the rain.


The Midwest Climate Center has some of our neighborhoods in a moderate drought right now. The areas shaded on the map in light brown are experiencing a moderate drought while areas shaded in yellow are abnormally dry for this time of year
(areas in yellow are not quite dry enough to be considered in a drought just yet).


The Climate Prediction Center has our region experiencing near normal rainfall for the next 6-10 days (Shown Below), but as I mentioned earlier in this post there isn't much rain in my 7 day forecast. It could change, let's hope it does!