* 19 days out of 28 is how frequent Decatur has received measurable rain so far in May.
* 8,11 inches is how much Decatue received just in the first six days of the month.
* 19 out of 28 days this month with measurable rain at Anniston Airport. They have received 7.56 inches.
* 57 was the low temperature this morning in Cottondale and 59 in Russellville, Hamilton, and Centreville. The humidity is noticeably lower today also.
* 1.7 percent is how much of the lower 48 states has a snow cover this morning. All of it is in the high elevations of the Northern Rockies and the Pacific Northwest. One week ago today, the percent coverage was 7 percent.
* 288 inches is the deepest (official) snow depth that I could find this morning. It was at Alpine Meadows, Calif., in the Sierra Nevada Range near the Nevada border. The snow reporting station is at an elevation of 6913 feet in a 100 percent forested area, described as a “Cool Conifer Forest.” How nice!
* 1.72 inches is how much rain Rochester got in the last 24 hours and 1.97 at Harrisburg as the Northeast got another bout of storms.
* 112 was the hottest in the good ole USA yesterday in Death Valley. (Coldest) (Coolest) (Choose one) in the USA this morning was 31 at the big lake in Yellowstone National Park and 21 at Shishmaref, Alaska.
* 7 inches was the snow cover at Whittier, Alaska this morning. That is a station just for fun that we have been trying to guess when all the snow will be gone. It looks like our estimate of early June is going to be close. At one point in the late winter and early spring, they had well over 100 inches on the ground.
* 93 inches is how much snow Anchorage got during the winter and spring. That is 24 inches more than the usual amount.
* 98 inches was the winter’s final snow total for Spokane in Eastern Washington. That is more than twice the average amount. Remember all those pictures during that time showing roofs caved in?
* 27 was the number of named storms in the 2005 hurricane season. That was an all-time record. The Hurricane Center ran out of names so the last six storms had to use the Greek alphabet.
* 21 named storms was the previous record set in 1933.
* 2009 hurricane season, which starts officially Monday, begins with Ana and Bill. The whole list has easier names to pronounce than usual. But next year the 2010 hurricane season has such names as Hermine, Igor, Shary (never heard of that name) and Virginie. The 2011 season has Ophelia and Phillippe.
* 17 below zero is the coldest temperature ever officially recorded in the state of Georgia. It occurred on January 27, 1940 at CC Camp #F-16 at an elevation of around 1,000 feet. During that same bitter coldwave, there was ice skating here in Alabama on the Black Warrior River near Birmingport and at East Lake Park in NE Birmingham.
* 223 is the average number of days that Juneau gets precipitation each year. This includes an avarge of 97 inches of snow.
* 8 is how many hours of sleep I got last night. I don’t deserve that much and I still woke up automatically at 5:00 without an alarm clock. Little Miss Molly subbed for the alarm clock.
