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High temps in the low single digits today

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By Thomas Geyer | Sunday, January 20, 2008 |

A flock of mallards huddle in the cold at the Vander Veer Botanical Park lagoon in Davenport. They’ll need to stay close to stay warm this weekend, with a high of 1 below zero expected today and an overnight low of 13 below zero. Wind chills are expected to be 20 to 25 below. (Larry Fisher/QUAD-CITY TIMES) Buy this Photo

It may be hard to realize given the frigid temperatures of late that as of Thursday the average daily temperature in the Quad-Cities for the month of January was still running 7.8 degrees above normal.

Those fondly remembered warm days of Jan. 6 and 7 when record high temperatures in the 60s made it feel like spring have skewed the average. Overnight lows were only in the 30s.

But the average temperatures for the month will even out in a hurry over the course of the next week, beginning with today when the high temperature is expected to be all of 3 degrees, said meteorologist Tom Philip of the National Weather Service, Davenport. Tonight’s overnight low is expected to dip to minus nine.

Sunday’s high is expected to be about 10, he added. The overnight low is expected to be around six degrees.

Wind chill indices today and Sunday are expected to be in the dangerous zone of minus 20 and lower, he added.

“Our normal high for Jan. 19 and 20 is 30 degrees,” Philip said. “Normal lows are around

12 degrees.”

He said that from Jan. 4 through Jan. 13, the average temperatures ranged from eight above normal to 30 degrees above normal.

Today, Philip said, the high temperature will be 27 degrees below the normal of 30. The high Sunday is expected to be 20 degrees below the 30 degree normal. And all next week the temperature will be below normal, he added.

“We should be gradually warming up from day to day,” Philip said. “The high Monday should be near 17, while Tuesday through Thursday it will be about 15. By Friday the high should climb to about 19.”

With the dangerously cold wind chills, dressing for the weather is important. According to the Centers for Disease Control, adults and children should wear a hat, a scarf or knit mask to cover face and mouth, sleeves that are snug at the wrist, mittens because they are warmer than gloves, a water-resistant coat and boots and several layers of loose-fitting clothing.

Thomas Geyer can be contacted at (563) 383-2328 or tgeyer@qctimes.com.