* 2 to 12 inches is how much snow is expected in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park region through tomorrow. This, of course, includes Gatlinburg and Cades Cove.
* 0 to 15 are the low temperatures expected during this time in the Great Smokies.
* -15 is the worst wind chill expected probably more so in the high country.
* 13.46 inches is how much rain Birmingham has received in the last two months.
* 0 is how many college basketball games I have seen in person in my lifetime. No change from earlier stats.
* 0 is how many bottles of bottled water I have purchased in my life. Our tap water in Trussville is great quality. I believe also that the Birmingham Water Works consistently rates in the top five nationwide with the taste and quality of their water.
* 3 is how many major league baseball teams I have seen in person. I was at the Kansas City Royals stadium and the old Cleveland stadium. I really enjoyed the Cleveland ballpark because of its history.
* 5 below zero to 5 above is the wind chill that the NWS in Huntsville is forecasting for the Tennessee Valley tonight. That includes areas as far south as Cullman.
* 47 below zero was the coldest in Alaska this morning at Ft. Yukon.
* 62 below zero at Chandalar Lake was the coldest in Alaska over this past weekend.
* 48 inches of snow now at Valdez, Alaska and 17 inches at Whittier, just to give you two amounts.
* 40 below zero was what people in Fairbanks awoke to this morning with 19 inches of snow on the ground. Fairbanks experienced a very cold January.
* 63 below zero was the wind chill at Point Lay, Alaska this morning.
* 17 is the forecast low for Louisville tonight and 13 tomorrow night. Highs will only be in the 20s the next two days. They will have some snow showers today, but no freezing rain. I mention these temperatures because Northern Kentucky is still in very bad shape from their recent ice storm and literally thousands are still without power.
* 100 was the temperature in Newman, Australia at 9:00 p.m. (their time). The humidity was only 7%. 113 is their forecast high for tomorrow.
* 44 below zero at Old Crow in the Yukon Territory of NW Canada. They were reporting ice crystals. That is a beautiful sight. The small amount of moisture still in the air is frozen into floating ice crystals and you should see the sunrise during that phenomenon. I have never seen it, but I have heard how beautiful it is.
* 19 inches of snow (up to that amount) is what London had to endure over the weekend. Their main airport was shut down completely for a time. Reports out of London say that this is their coldest winter in 10 years. I have heard other reports that England is going through their coldest weather in over 20 years.
* 37% is how much of the lower 48 states was snow covered this morning. Overall, this is not as much snow cover as we have seen at earlier times this winter, but because of yesterday’s snow, parts of Northern and Eastern Tennessee and Western North Carolina are covered.
* 274 inches of snow was on the ground today at Logan Summit. These are measurements from automated Snowtel stations in the Mountain West that automatically measure the snow depth and transmit it. We once drove over Logan Summit when there was a narrow lane cut between 12-foot snowbanks on both sides of the road. To get to Logan Summit, you can go to the city of Logan in North Utah (home of Utah State University). The city is at the mouth of Logan Canyon. I was fascinated because all of the trees in one part of the city were leaning toward the west. This was due to frequent down canyon winds when the trees were growing up. Those winds can easily reach 80 mph at times. We were camping in Logan Canyon one night (not in winter) when it started snowing during the night and gusts to 80 mph blew away our tent. After you get to the crest of Logan Summit, you can look down on beautiful Bear Lake. It is a large lake with half of it in Utah and half in Idaho. You are on US-89 when you go up Logan Canyon. After you drop to lower elevations to Bear Lake, US-89 turns north and goes along the western shore of Bear Lake. Beautiful country. Matt Marshall, a friend of mine, lives close to the Utah/Idaho border at Willard, Utah. He and his wife are Birmingham natives, but they moved to Utah specifically because they love skiing so much.
