WHBF-TV recently issued the following announcement.
We're now sitting at -27° in the Quad Cities - that means we're 1 degree short of the all-time record low!
9 p.m. update - We're sitting at -20° right now, and there's no reason to change the forecast now! We should drop to -29° after midnight tonight.
Previous post - Climate records go back to the 1800s for the Quad Cities. And out of all those fifty thousand or so days, the coldest temperature we've ever had is -28°. That happened on February 3rd, 1996.
That record is about to be broken.
We'll bottom out at -29° after midnight tonight. The wind won't be as bad so wind chills won't be as frigid as last night. But, they'll still be around -40° and that's why we have a Wind Chill Warning thru Thursday at 10 a.m.
We fell just short of the coldest wind chill of all time, and about 4 degrees short of the coldest daytime high temp ever in the Quad Cities today.
Thanks for following along with us this week, and check my Facebook page for more Quad Cities weather stats like this. - Andy McCray on Facebook
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