July 2012 Drought Stats

Tonight marks the end of a month of extremes in the Quad Cities!  It was the 6 hottest July ever and the 7th driest July on record in the Quad Cities!  Take a look at some of our cornfields, yards and trees and you can quickly tell that's a bad combo!  We ended up with 22 days at or above 90° and a whopping 5 days at or above 100°!  Over the last 25 YEARS or so before this month we'd only had 6 days at or above 100°!  T











The first week of August looks hot too, with a decent chance for showers/storms Saturday night...