* 65 is how many tornado reports the Storm Prediction Center received yesterday and last night. Remember, that number will likely be reduced when all the information is in, because a number of reports may have been multiple ones about the same tornado.
* 4 is the latest report of the number of fatalities. There were a lot of injuries. The tornadoes occurred from the Texas Panhandle north through the extreme western parts of Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska. There was also one in SE Colorado.
* 1 mile is how wide one tornado was at times six miles NW of Grant, Nebraska (reported by a trained storm spotter).
* 1 person was killed in a tornado that heavily damaged the small town of Holly, Colorado. The woman that was killed had a three-year-old daughter who has serious head injuries. They lived in a mobile home. It was lifted off the ground and came to rest in a tree. A doctor in the town said the mobile home was carried about 50 feet. Holly is on US-50 in SE Colorado only about four miles west of the Kansas border.
* 2 persons died from a tornado in Beaver, Oklahoma.
* 3 pounds is how much weight I have lost since Sunday. That is nearly half of what I gained last weekend in Starkville, Mississippi during a two-day symposium when overeating was legal.
* 127 mph was a wind gust recorded at 8:35 last evening at McLean, Texas in West Texas. That is an automated weather station and it so happened that a tornado moved right across the facility knocking it out of service, but not before it clocked a 127 mph gust and a huge sudden drop in pressure.
* 11 inches is how much snow fell on Montgomery in early December 1886.
* 13 April is the latest the temperature has ever been down to freezing in Montgomery. That happened in 1940.
* 120 is how many people were killed by lightning in Alabama between 1959 and 2004.
* 12 is where we rank naitonally in the number of lightning deaths. Florida is number one and Texas number two.
* 11 below zero is the coldest temperature ever recorded in Africa. It occurred on February 11, 1935 in Ifrane, Morocco.
* 17% is how much of the lower 48 states was covered by a blanket of snow this morning. It was 44% last month at this time. Huge amounts of snow in parts of the Rockies and Northern Plains in the last 24 hours.
* 58 inches of snow fell at Hobbs Park, Wyoming in this storm. Also in Wyoming, 42 inches fell at Townsend Creek.
* 62 mph was how high the winds were blowing during heavy snow at Buffalo, Wyoming. Blizzard conditions occurred over a good part of that state.
* 21 inches of new snow fell at Brian Head in Southern Utah.
* 196 inches is the current snow depth on Wolf Creek Summit in Southern Colorado at an elevation of 11,000 feet. Nearly lost my life once trying to drive over Wolf Creek Pass late at night during a Winter Storm Warning.
* 1.69 inches of rain at Goodland, Kansas yesterday.
