* 29.05 inches was the rain deficit for Anniston as of today. In many years of weather work in Alabama, I have never seen a rain shortage approaching 30 inches in a calendar year.
* 28.35 inches is the current deficit for Tuscaloosa.
* 34.32 inches was the total for Birmingham in 1924, our driest year.
* 26.07 is the current Birmingham total this year. Does that mean we are headed for the driest year ever? We need 8.25 inches in the next five weeks to prevent that from happening.
* 5 is the lowest temperature ever recorded in Birmingham in the month of November. That happened on the 23rd in 1950 as a major cold wave rolled over the area. The temperature had been in the 70s before the cold blast rolled in.
* 15.25 inches is the most rain ever in Birmingham for the month of November. That was in 1948.
* 0.01 of an inch in 1924 was our all time driest November. That is hardly enough to unfurl your umbrella. That was during one of our worst droughts ever.
* 0.00 was our total in October, 1924 in that same major drought. That was zip, zero, none, not a drop, not even a trace.
* 1 to 3 inches is how much snow Chicago is expecting tonight.
* 50 below zero is one of the coldest temperatures I could fine in the Northern Hemisphere late this afternoon CST. That was in Ojmjakon, Russia.
* 60 percent of the livestock in Alabama was still in poor to very poor condition this week because of the drought.
* 79 percent of the pasture and range land was in poor to very poor. The USDA.
