[LeArc] Significant Weather Outlook

[Tony Coniglio]

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> SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK
>  NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
>  450 AM CST WED MAR 6 2002
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>  ...PARTLY SUNNY SKIES TO GIVE WAY TO CLOUDS AND POSSIBLY DRIZZLE OR
>  FREEZING DRIZZLE BY THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT TONIGHT...
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>  A SLOW MOVING FRONT WILL SHIFT SOUTH TODAY AND TONIGHT AND USHER IN
>  LOW CLOUDS WITH PATCHY DRIZZLE AND EVEN SOME FREEZING DRIZZLE ALONG
>  AND NORTH OF INTERSTATE 80.   A LARGE TEMPERATURE GRADIENT WILL EXIST
>  TODAY WITH HIGHS IN THE UPPER 40S AND LOWER 50S SOUTH OF BOUNDARY...
>  MAINLY SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 80 WITH THE MERCURY FALLING RAPIDLY INTO
>  THE LOWER 30S ALONG AND NORTH OF HIGHWAY 20.  LOWS TONIGHT WILL BE IN
>  THE UPPER 20S NORTH TO MIDDLE 30S SOUTH AS THE CLOUDS AND PATCHY
>  DRIZZLE MOVES IN.
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>  LOOKING AHEAD...A STRONG EARLY SPRING STORM SYSTEM WILL AFFECT THE
>  AREA FRIDAY INTO SATURDAY.  THE SYSTEM WILL PUSH PLENTY OF MOISTURE
>  AND WARM AIR ON BREEZY SOUTH WINDS INTO THE REGION BEFORE THE STORM
>  INTERACTS WITH A COLD AIR PUSH FROM CANADA.  THIS WILL PRODUCE LARGE
>  AREAS OF RAIN AND POSSIBLY EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS WITH LOCALLY HEAVY
>  RAIN AMOUNTS AS THE STORM PASSES.  AT THIS TIME...RAINFALL TOTALS OF
>  ONE HALF TO ONE INCH ARE EXPECTED...WITH LOCAL AMOUNTS UP TO TWO
>  INCHES IN THUNDERSTORMS.  THE STRONG SURFACE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL
>  PASS OVERHEAD LATE FRIDAY NIGHT BRINGING MUCH COLDER AIR AND CHANGE
>  THE RAIN TO SNOW ON A STRONG NORTHWEST WIND.  A FEW INCHES OF SNOW
>  MAY OCCUR AS TEMPERATURES FALL BELOW FREEZING SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND
>  EVENING.
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>  THE SIGNIFICANT RAINS ANTICIPATED LATER THIS WEEK COMBINED WITH
>  SATURATED SOIL FROM OUR MELTING SNOW COVER AND PARTIALLY FROZEN
>  GROUND...ESPECIALLY NORTH OF INTERSTATE 80 CREATE THE POTENTIAL FOR
>  FLOODING ON AREA STREAMS AND RIVERS FRIDAY AND SATURDAY.
>  THEREFORE...A FLOOD POTENTIAL OUTLOOK HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR FRIDAY AND
>  SATURDAY FOR THE RISK OF FLOODING CAUSED BY THIS STORM SYSTEM.
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