NOTE: Be sure and scroll down and read the posts by J&J (James and Jason) concerning this morning’s pesky fog and a review of the tragic tornado that killed 16 persons 6 years ago tomorrow (December 16, 2000) just south of Tuscaloosa.
Another big temperature inversion here this morning. Alabama can produce some amazing contrasts in weather over short distances. It is called “micro-climate.”
Some notes:
* 30.7 was the low at Black Creek in NE Etowah County. Vic Bell reports another frost and some freezing fog.
* At the same time it was 41 in Cullman
* It was 34 in Pinson while only a few air miles away the temperature at Clay, on a ridge off Deerfoot Parkway was 51. It was one of those mornings where you could have clear sailing on the highways only to suddenly run into a wall of fog. Jason Simpson said the fog this morning was some of the most densehe has ever seen.
* 8.21 inches is how much rain that fell on West Palm Beach yesterday–a record.
* 24 foot waves is the forecast on the Washington Coast this morning…occurring every 12 seconds.
* 75-100 mph is the wind gusts expected in the Cascade Mountains in Western Washington today, along with a raging blizzard.
* 28.96 inches was the pressure over part of SW Canada this morning that super Pacific storm moved inland. That is lower than in some hurricanes!
* 22 millibars (MB) was the difference in pressure at one time this morning between Bellingham, Wash., and Portland. That means it was a very tightly-wound storm.
* 85 mph measured gusts in the straits off British Columbia
* Gusts to 63 mph at Hanford in Eastern Washington.
* Gusts to 61 mph in West Montana, east of the Rockies. The high winds extend far inland.
I know I used most of this post discussing the Pacific Northwest but those folks have had a terrible season and I really feel for the missing people on Mount Hood, their anxious families and the people trying to rescue them. No telling how high the wind will be on Mt. Hood today.
