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Weather stats agree: October was wet
Originally Posted Online: Nov. 02, 2009, 7:07 pm
Last Updated: Nov. 03, 2009, 1:38 pm
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By Laura Anderson, landerson@qconline.com
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Preliminary data from the Illinois State Water Survey show that this October was the state's second wettest on record since 1895. An ISWSrelease listed the statewide average rainfall as 8.9 inches, or 6 inches above normal. The wettest October on record in 1941 had 9.2 inches of rainfall. Here in the Quad-Cities, the month that just ended was the ninth wettest October with 5.94 inches recorded, said National Weather Service meteorologist Tom Philip. "The wettest was in 1941 with 9.41 inches," Mr. Philip said. The Quad-Cities usually receives 2.80 inches of rain during October. "We were more than double," he said. The wet fields allowed only 5 percent more corn to be harvested last week, and only 2 percent more soybeans to be harvested, according to an agricultural summary from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the National Agricultural Statistics Service. Jim Coyne, a farmer near Milan, said he was able to harvest some corn Sunday and some soybeans Monday afternoon for "the first time in two weeks." He added that he was looking forward to harvesting more today. 
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