* 18.47 inches is the rain deficit for Huntsville so far this year.
* 10.91 inches is all they have received in 2007.
* 20.04 inches was how much they had received at this same time last year.
* 50.75 inches is the Huntsville shortfall in rain since January 1, 2005. In that 2-1/2 years, they have lost an entire year’s supply of rain.
* 33.39 inches is their shortfall for the last 18 months.
* 79 below zero was the temperature this morning at the Amundsen Scott station in Antarctica this morning.
* 95 below zero was their approximate wind chill with snow in progress.
* 0 is the number of minutes of daylight they have now. They are in their long total dark winter.
* 34 was the temperature at Alert–the northernmost weather station in North America. It is at the far north tip of Canada.
* 24 hours is how much daylight they have now.
* 4.66 was the amount of rain at Denton, Texas in the last 24 hours.
* 4.41 inches at Ft. Worth Alliance Airport. Major flash flooding has occurred in parts of North Texas. At least one four-year-old child was swept away.
* 2.13 inches of rain in the last 24 hours at Houston Hobby Airport. Houston, Austin, Waco, Dallas and Wichita Falls (just to name a few) are far above normal with 2007 rain.
* 114 was the high in Death Valley Sunday.
* 25 was the cold spot this morning in Stanley, Idaho. Stanley is a very neat little town nestled in the Sawtooth Mountains of South-Central Idaho on the Salmon River. Last time we were there, the population and speed limit were both 35.
* 41% of the land area in the USA is drained by the Mississippi River.
* 280 trillion gallons is the amount of fresh water that flows into the Gulf of Mexico each year. Mind you, that is estimated.
* 64% of that fresh water comes down the Mississippi River system and has to go through the Port of New Orleans.
* 12,500 feet is the deepest part of the Gulf of Mexico.
* 1 is how many NBA basketball games I have watched on TV. That was the final game last week between San Antonio and Cleveland.
* 34.36 inches was the average statewide rainfall in Alabama during the long drawn out 1954 drought. That was the lowest average in 71 years of record. There were 13 months in a row with below normal precipitation.
* 123 days in a row is how long one station in Central Alabama did not even get a trace of rain. It happened from July 18 through November 16.
* 32.67 inches was the rain shortfall for Bridgeport in the big drought of 1954.
* 1954 drought was considered the worst on record in Alabama up until that time. Forest fires were numerous, municipal water supplies were critically short, ground water levels were abnormally low and record low levels were recorded in a number of wells. Some wells went dry that had never been dry before.
