* 52.54 inches is how much rain Tulsa has received so far this year after receiving an additional 1 inch in the last 24 hours.
* 12 inches is now their surplus for 2007.
* 23 inches is how much Oklahoma City is wetter than normal this year as of this morning. They got an additional 1.09 inches yesterday bringing their year’s total to an awesome 57.55 inches.
* 30.37 inches is the deficiency for Tuscaloosa as of today. The Druid City has received only 23.66 inches this year on the way to the driest year ever. This means that Oklahoma City has received 34 inches more than Tuscaloosa this year. Normal for Tuscaloosa is about 54 inches and for Oklahoma City only about 35 inches. This means that all is not fair in love, war, rain, snow, ice and politics.
* 21 inches of snow on the ground at Valdez on the west coast of Alaska this morning. That region will get an enormous amount of snow before the winter is over.
* 77 is the number of counties in Oklahoma under a Federal Emergency Declaration due to the record ice storm. This was approved by President Bush. This is according to Tulsa Today, which is an online daily newspaper.
* 200,000 is still the number of power outages for the Tulsa area. Tulsa County has been especially hard hit.
* 497,556 is the number of power outages across Oklahoma as of this morning.
* 3 persons were fatally burned in a house fire north of the State Fairgrounds in Oklahoma City around 1:30 this morning. A passing motorist saw the flames and tried to awaken everyone. One person was pulled onto the lawn, but died there. The other two died inside the home. Officials are also warning sternly about the dangers of unvented heaters during this major power outage.
* 110,000 were without power across Kansas this morning according to the Kansas EMA Office.
* 35 is the expected high in Oklahoma City today with a 70% chance of rain mixed with a little light freezing rain and a little light sleet.
* 45 is the expected high in Oklahoma City Thursday with dry weather This will be a chance for a marked improvement in the ice conditions. However, officials warn that not everyone will get their power back on for a number of days–possibly over a week.
* 32 is the forecast high today in Chicago and mostly cry weather, but there is a 30% chance of light snow after midnight.
* 83 is the forecast high for both Miami Beach and Orlando today and tomorrow in case you are a warm weather fan.
* 91 was the USA high in Laredo yesterday.
* 19 below zero was the coldest in the lower four dozen states this morning at Big Piney, Wyoming.
* 8 below was the coldest in Alaska in Arctic Village.
* 216 people died in a tornado at Tupelo, Mississippi on April 5, 1936. That ranks it as the fourth deadliest tornado in the USA. Next morning an additional 203 persons were killed in a tornado at Gainesville, Georgia. No doubt it was part of the same storm complex.
* 0.10 is the average annual rain amount for Wadi Halfa, Sudan. That makes it the driest place in all of Africa. As we all know, that amount of rain would hardly settle the dust, even if it came all at once.
