* 0.04 is all the rain that we got at Birmingham Airport yesterday. We were overlooked again
* 7.07 is our 2007 total so far
* 10.51 inches is our shortage for the year so far. That is not good
* 58 inches is how much snow that Milwaukee has received so far during the winter and this spring. That is 7 inches above normal
* 103 is how many reports of hail received by the Storm Prediction Center yesterday. Some of the largest hail was here in Alabama
* 36 was the low in Black Creek in NE Etowah County this morning with light frost. Vic Bell, the 33/40 weather watcher has recorded an unusual large number of mornings with frost this winter and spring
* 97 below zero is the expected low temperature at Vostok, Antarctica this weekend. It was minus 93 today
* 231 mph is how strong the wind was atop Mt. Washington, New Hampshire on this date in 1934. It still stands as the highest officially recorded wind gust on earth
* 265 degrees is the absolute range of temperature ever recorded on earth. High of 136 in Libya. Low of 129 below zero at the bottom of the world. Interesting to note that both extremes occurred in the month of July which is mid-winter at the bottom of the world.
* 20 million is the average number of cloud-to-ground lightning strikes each year in the Lower 48 USA. Lightning is frightening.
* 90,000 miles per second is about the speed of a bolt of lightning. Lightning is very frightening.
* 97 percent of the water in the world is salt water in the oceans.
* 4 trillion is the estimated gallons of water that falls in the form of precipitation on the USA each day. That is an average. It can vary greatly from day to day. Much of that is runoff and evaporation.
* 25 years is how long I have been using the same coffee cup.
* 0 is how many times I have failed to get the Birmingham News in over five years living in Trussville. We don’t thank our paper delivery person enough.
