* 10.85 inches is how much rain the Dallas-Ft. Worth Airport has recorded this month.
* 34.63 inches is the normal annual rain for Dallas-Ft. Worth. That is about 19 inches less than Birmingham where the normal is around 54 inches.
* 31.83 inches is how much rain they have already received. That is an excess of 13.16 inches. So, Dallas is only 2.80 inches away from getting their entire year’s supply and the year is not quite half over.
* 29.08 is how many inches of rain Oklahoma City has received this year–almost three times the amount at the same time last year.
* 19.05 inches is the rain report we received from Marble Falls, Texas in just a day or so.
* 80 is how many Texas counties were under Flood Warnings this morning. (Flash Flood Warning or Flood Warning)
* 21.04 inches is the 2007 rain shortfall for Tuscaloosa as of today. They have only received 9.47 inches.
* 16.75 is the Birmingham deficit as of today.
* 430 is how many people were killed by lightning in Florida from 1959 through 2004. That is by far the most in the USA. Texas, a much bigger state but not as densely populated overall, had 198 fatalities.
* 102 was the number of deaths in Alabama during that same period, ranking us number 12 in the nation.
* 29 is how many states that have had hotter all-time high temperatures than Alabama. Our all-time high was 112 in Centreville on September 5, 1925 when air conditioning was exceedingly scarce or non-existent. Every state along the USA/Canadian border has had hotter extreme temperatures than Alabama, except from New York eastward.
* 9 is the number of states in the USA that have seen extreme temperatures 120 or higher.
* 109 is the record high for Florida, making it the coolest state in the entire SE when it comes to an all-time maximum temperature extreme.
* 5 states, from Texas to North Dakota, have been 120 degrees or hotter. Nebraska is the only exception with 118. South Dakota has had 120 and North Dakota 121. Even Minnesota has had a hotter extreme than Alabama with 114.
* 51.34 inches is the rain deficit for Huntsville since January 1, 2005. I keep repeating that stat, because it is exceedingly impressive and discouraging. Just in the last 18 months, Huntsville has missed out on 34 inches of rain.
* 117 was the high temperature at Wichita Falls, Texas on this date in 1980, making it their hottest temperature of all time.
* 3% is all of the world’s water that is fresh. The rest is salt water in the oceans.
* 1% is all of the fresh water thata is usable, because the rest is locked up in ice caps at both poles, especially at the South Pole. Peru is home to the world’s largest ice cap that is in the tropics, but at a very high elevation.
* 70% of the world’s fresh water is used for agriculture.
