* 73 degrees at Huntsville this afternoon was the warmest on record for January 7, breaking the old record of 71 in 1989.
* 65 degrees was the expected rise in temperature today at Oneonta from the frigid low of 5 above zero last Thursday morning. That is a major rebound in temperature for that period of time.
* 32.52 inches of rain is the most ever recorded in Alabama in a 24 hour period. It happened on July 19-20, 1997, at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab after Hurricane Danny stalled over South Mobile Bay.
* 6.00 inches is the most rain ever in Utah in 24 hours. That was on September 5, 1970 at Bug Point. I have traveled over a large part of Utah but, so help me, I don’t know where Bug Point is but I live that name!
* 6.06 inches is the most rain ever in Wyoming in 24 hours at Cheyenne. Utah and Wyoming have the lowest record 24 hour rain of all the 50 states.
* 8.60 inches of rain fell in Hoover for the 24 hours ending at 6 am on September 17, 2004. It can all be blamed on Hurricane Ivan. There was much flash-flooding.
* 148 tornadoes occurred during the Super Outbreak of April 3-4, 1974.
* 70 of the 148 tornadoes were rated violent (F3 or greater)
* 3,801,492,265 tons is the estimated weight if one inch of rain was to fall over all of Alabama. (Water is very heavy) This is based on 52,423 square miles as the area of Alabama.
* 1922 was when the first radio station in Alabama signed on the air in Alabama. It was WSY, Birmingham, owned by Alabama Power Company. The company later doanated the equipment to Alabama Polytechnic in Auburn (now Auburn University) and the call latters were changed to WAPI. (from the magazine section of the Moundville Times)
* 24 inches is how much snow fell at Telluride, in SW Colorado, in the last 24 hours. Durango got 26 inches and Wolf Creek Pass 39 inches.
* 132 inches is how much snow fell on Kirkwood, Calif., since Friday. I will repeat that number–132 inches! That included 7 to 10 feet in only 24 hours! (Sierra-Nevada Region)
* 96 inches fell at Heavenly Valley, Nevada.
* 165 mph was the wind gust recorded on Ward Mountain at an elevation of 8637 feet west or SW of Reno at 1 pm Friday. That happened to occur where there were wind instruments in operation. It is possible that higher gusts occurred on some of the ridge tops where there were no instruments.
* 104 inches was the snow depth on Eagle Crest, in Western Alaska, near Juneau this morning.
* 33 percent is how much of the Lower 48 states had a snow cover this morning. That compared to 53 percent one month ago today.
