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Slightly Warmer Autumn Predicted

the fall outlook for temperatures
National Weather Service
the fall outlook for temperatures

The weather this fall in the Quad Cities area will probably be slightly warmer than normal. That's the latest prediction from the National Weather Service for October through December.

Meteorologist Ray Wolf from the Davenport office, says that's been the trend for the last 10 or 15 years due to climate change. Our average temperatures have risen about one-tenth of one degree each decade.

National Weather Service

"Which doesn't sound like a lot, but when you average it out on how it affects things around here, like our energy bills in the wintertime, it can be impactful, especially if it were to continue through the rest of this century as we expect it to."

Normal temperatures for this area in October include a high of 65 and a low of 43, and in December 37 and 21 degrees.

Wolf says the National Weather Service has found no clear signal on how much precipitation we'll receive for the next three months.

"So we refer to that as equal chances of falling into any one of those three categories - near normal, above normal, or below normal."

In an average year, our first snowfall would be on November 21st, or around Thanksgiving. But the earliest ever first snowfall was September 25th in 1942, while the latest was January 4th, in 1913.

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