Tag Archives: Record Weather

A Flood of Images: May 2019 – a new historic crest

Posted on May 11, 2019 by SCblogger

As the Quad Cities moves into May we are at 49 days and counting above flood stage at Lock and Dam 15 in Rock Island, IL. This breaks all previous continual flooding records at that lock. (Update 05/13/2019 – At 3:00 … Continue reading →

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40th Anniversary of the Blizzard of January 1979

Posted on January 17, 2019 by SCblogger

This blog could easily have been titled “40th Anniversary of the Winter of 1978 – 1979: The winter that would not end“. We are sure if felt that way to many people in the Quad Cities. In 2009, we wrote … Continue reading →

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Heat Wave: 1901

Posted on July 20, 2011 by SCblogger

“Fair tonight and Wednesday continued warm”* A prosaic statement for sure, but warm failed to describe the conditions being dealt with by local individuals during the last two weeks of July 1901.  Drought, heat and humidity controlled our area, and … Continue reading →

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