[LeArc] Significant Weather Outlook

[Tony Coniglio]

> SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK
>  NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
>  505 AM CST TUE MAR 5 2002
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>  ...SOME FLURRIES NORTH ON INTERSTATE 80 WITH A WARMING TREND...
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>  WINDS WILL GRADUALLY SHIFT TO THE SOUTHEAST AND THEN SOUTHWEST
>  TODAY INTO TONIGHT BRINGING UP MILDER AIR.  AS THE COLD AIR RETREATS
>  A FEW FLURRIES MAY OCCUR ALONG AND NORTH OF INTERSTATE 80.   SOME
>  LIGHT SNOW MAY FALL ALONG AND NORTH HIGHWAY 20 WITH A FEW LOCATIONS
>  THERE POSSIBLY SEEING UP TO A HALF INCH OF NEW WHITE STUFF.  THE
>  CLOUDS WILL GIVE WAY TO PARTLY SUNNY SKIES...ESPECIALLY SOUTH OF
>  INTERSTATE 80 THIS AFTERNOON.  HIGHS WILL RISE INTO THE 30S WITH A
>  FEW LOCATIONS NEAR THE MISSOURI BORDER PUSHING NEAR 40 DEGREES.
>  SOUTH WINDS WILL CONTINUE TONIGHT KEEPING LOWS IN THE UPPER 20S TO
>  LOWER 30S.
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>  LOOKING AHEAD...A STRONG EARLY SPRING STORM SYSTEM WILL AFFECT THE
>  AREA FRIDAY INTO SATURDAY.  THE SYSTEM WILL HAVE PLENTY OF MOISTURE
>  TO WORK WITH AND INTERACT WITH COLD AIR FROM CANADA.  AHEAD OF THE
>  STORM...BREEZY SOUTH WINDS WILL BRING MUCH WARMER AIR ALONG WITH
>  WIDESPREAD RAIN AND POSSIBLY EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS WITH LOCALLY
>  HEAVY RAIN AMOUNTS.  THE STRONG SURFACE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL PASS
>  OVERHEAD LATE FRIDAY BRINGING MUCH COLDER AIR AND CHANGE THE RAIN TO
>  SNOW ON A STRONG NORTHWEST WIND.  SOME ACCUMULATING SNOW IS POSSIBLE
>  AS TEMPERATURES FALL BELOW FREEZING.
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