National Weather Service Weather Forecast Office

A nearly all-day rain event, which also resulted in a new daily rainfall record in Dubuque, extended the record cold weather for one more day.

The rainfall total at Dubuque for July 21 was 2.42 inches.

The previous record was 2.09 inches set in 1935.

Below is a summary of recently set records over the past five days.  When viewing the Record Event Report links below, you may need to select "Previous Version" a few times until the report you are interested in is displayed.

• RECORD EVENT REPORT - DUBUQUE 
• RECORD EVENT REPORT - MOLINE 
• RECORD EVENT REPORT - BURLINGTON OR CEDAR RAPIDS 

Note: The record cold high temperature in Dubuque for the entire month of July is 60, last set on 7/30/1992.

Record Cold Highs:

            Dubuque                  Moline

Jul 17 -  70 in 1883  61 in 2009   71 in 1883  68 in 2009 

Jul 18 -  69 in 2000  66 in 2009   72 in 1896  70 in 2009 

Jul 21 -  68 in 1912  64 in 2009   70 in 1947  68 in 2009 

Record Lows:

           Burlington               Cedar Rapids             Dubuque                   Moline

Jul 18 -  53 in 1924               50 in 1925  49 in 2009   51 in 1979               54 in 1945

Jul 19 -  54 in 1979  54 in 2009+  51 in 1912  50 in 2009   50 in 2003               52 in 2003

Jul 20 -  54 in 1929  53 in 2009   50 in 1970+ 50 in 2009+  49 in 1970  49 in 2009+  52 in 1880  50 in 2009 

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