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Despite a cold snap in the final days of the month, November in the Quad-Cities was warmer and slightly dryer than normal, mirroring September and October and making the fall of 2024 also warmer and dryer than normal.
The dryer trend is expected to continue for this week. But except for Wednesday, temperatures for the rest of the week will likely be below normal, meteorologist Zach Uttech of the National Weather Service, Davenport, said Sunday.
"There's not much in the way of precipitation on the horizon," Uttech said.
The weather service was watching a system in eastern South Dakota on Sunday night that was moving northwest to southeast and might give the Quad-Cities some snow early Monday.
Uttech said the Quad-City metropolitan area could see some snowflakes from that Monday morning. Depending on the timing when that system gets here some snow could be falling during the morning commute.
While a dusting to possibly one-tenth of an inch of snow could fall here, Uttech said the better chance for snow is west and south of the Quad-City metropolitan area, where snowfall could measure up to a half inch.
Other than that weak system, he said, the rest of the week will be dry.
Normal high temperatures for the first seven days of December range from 42 degrees on the first to 39 degrees on the seventh. The normal lows during that same period range from 25 degrees on the first to 23 degrees on the seventh.
For the first week of the month, temperatures will stay mostly below normal, Uttech said.
The high temperatures Monday and Tuesday are expected to be in the upper 20s. The overnight low Monday into Tuesday is expected to be about 13 degrees, while the overnight low temperature Tuesday into Wednesday is expected to be about 24 degrees.
Uttech said warm air from the plains would move into the region Wednesday sending the high temperature to about 42 degrees.
"That will be short-lived as a cold front will be moving in right behind it," Uttech said. "The story here is the winds Wednesday night which could gust from 30 to 40 mph."
The low temperature Wednesday night into Thursday will drop to about 10 degrees, he said.
Thursday's high is expected to reach 22 degrees under sunny skies with an overnight low into Friday of 11 degrees. Friday's high under sunny skies is expected to reach about 31 degrees with an overnight low of 21.
Temperatures could reach the middle 30s to lower 40s by next weekend.
Uttech said the eight- to 14-day outlook posted by the Climate Prediction Center indicated near normal probabilities on temperature and precipitation in the Quad-Cities.
For the month of November, the average temperature was 44.2 degrees, which is 3.8 degrees above normal. The highest temperature registered for the month was 71 degrees on Nov. 4, while the lowest was 13 degrees Saturday.
Rainfall for November totaled 2.01 inches, which is 0.29 inches below normal. There was no snowfall. There was only a trace of snow on Nov. 20. Normal snowfall for November is 2.1 inches.
October also was warmer and dryer with an average temperature of 58.8 degrees, or 4.1 degrees above normal. Rainfall for October totaled 1.34 inches, or 1.47 inches below normal.
September was 1.9 degrees above normal with an average temperature of 68 degrees. There was only 0.42 of rain during September, which was 2.90 inches below normal.
For meteorological fall, from Sept. 1 through Nov. 30, the average temperature was 56.7 degrees, 3.3 degrees above the normal 53.4 degrees. Rainfall for the three months totaled 3.77 inches, or 4.66 inches below the normal 8.43 inches.
The Iowa Quad-City region remains mostly in a moderate drought while the Illinois Quad-Cities is abnormally dry, according to the latest U.S. Drought Monitor.