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Saturday Weather Trivia, February 22
Answer: 42″! Just to clarify…this is snow depth recorded on one day, NOT snowfall totals for a season/year/day. In other words on this date in 1936, Sioux Center residents had 42″ of snow on the...
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Sunday Weather Trivia, February 23
Answer: 17.6″. The snowiest February on record for Waterloo occurred in 1962 with 24.3″ of snow. This season Waterloo have picked up 43″ of snow. The snowiest winter season ever recorded in Waterloo...
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Here are some stats for February & winter (Dec-Feb) 2014: Waterloo: 2nd snowiest February on record with 20.5″. The record is 24.3″ received in 1962. 3rd coldest February on record with an average...
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Sunday Weather Trivia, March 2
Answer: 11.6°F. Waterloo had an average temperature of 11.4°F this winter making it the 4th coldest on record. The National Weather Service does not keep rankings for Cedar Rapids and Iowa City. But...
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Record Cold, March 3
Record lows were broken today across eastern Iowa. Below are the official National Weather Service lows for Waterloo and Dubuque. Cedar Rapids and Iowa City records come from the Iowa Mesonet and...
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Saturday Weather Trivia, March 8
Answer: 1918. Although DST was first introduced in 1918, it didn’t become established until 1966 when the Uniform Time Act set dates for when to start and stop DST. The Act, however, still allows...
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Sunday Weather Trivia, March 9
Answer: F1. March 7 was the beginning of an extreme nine days in Iowa due to the weather. First, an ice storm produced 0.5″ to 2″ of ice across portions of Iowa. Many locations were without powers...
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Saturday Weather Trivia, March 15
Answer: 8 years. The most recent record-able snowfall in Waterloo fell last year on May 2-3. The airport picked up 1.7″ of snow making it the 3rd snowiest May on record (1895-now). The snowiest on...
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Saturday Weather Trivia, March 22
Answer: Flood. Flood Awareness Week was from March 16-22 and Severe Weather Awareness starts March 24-28. More details on Flood Awareness Week can be found here.
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Sunday Weather Trivia, March 23
Answer: Lightning. Lightning kills an average of 58 people and injuries over 300 people each year in the United States. National Lightning Safety Awareness week is June 22-28 this year. For more...
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Saturday Weather Trivia, March 29
Answer: May 19. Three tornadoes where confirmed to touchdown in Iowa that day. One was an EF0 and two tornadoes were rated EF1′s. In 2013, Iowa only recorded 28 tornadoes while the average in a year...
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Sunday Weather Trivia, March 30
Answer: October 31. Dubuque hit a high of 61° on Halloween. Waterloo and Cedar Rapids haven’t seen 60s since November 16th but Iowa City reached 60° on March 10.
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Saturday Weather Trivia, April 5
Answer: Triple Point. Below are some graphics that illustrates the typical locations of a triple point. Triple point is also the location within a supercell where a point where the warm moist...
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Sunday Weather Trivia, April 13
Answer: 2.03″. This amount was recorded in 1991. More rain is expected today with most of the area picking up an additional 1-2+” of rain!
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Saturday Weather Trivia, April 26
Answer: 2008. 10.79″ of rain fell in April 2008 in Waterloo. This wet spring was a huge factor in the floods of 2008. Below is a graphic that indicates how we sit for April so far this year. Cedar...
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Sunday Weather Trivia, April 27
Answer: Bakersfield, CA. Bakersfield experiences air quality levels at unhealthy or worse two-thirds of the year. Find out more about Air Quality Awareness Week and check your Air Quality Index...
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Saturday Weather Trivia, May 3
Answer: 13.0″ was reported in Osage! 7″ of snow fell in Osage on May 2nd, which broke the record at that location. Many other snowfall records were broken across the Plains from this snowstorm. More...
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Sunday Weather Trivia, May 4
Answer: 1907. Record lows were also set or tied for that day in Waterloo (22°F), Cedar Rapids (27°F) and Iowa City (25°F). Other locations that hit COOP record lows: Charles City at 20°F Hampton at...
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