…..5,000 is the number of lightning strokes in the Washington-Baltimore area in only one hour early this morning as unusually severe thunderstorms rolled through the area. Based on lightning detection equipment. The NWS issued Severe Thunderstorm Warnings and Flash Flood Warnings..
…..7.42 inches is the rain deficit this year so far for Tuscaloosa. Yesterday’s high of 101 surely does not help.
…..100 degrees is the average daily high for the first 11 days of August at Huntsville. (99.8 to be exact)
…..0 is how many days that the temperature has reached 100 in Anniston so far this month. The east side of the state has been a little cooler. The hottest in Anniston so far this month, 97 on the 3rd and 4th.
…..6 of the first 11 days of August had highs of 100 or 101 in Birmingham.
…..0% is how much of the Lower 48 states had a snow cover this morning. However, some places in the high mountain west still sport a good snow pack. Example, 182 inches at Sand Lake, Wyo., elevation over 10,000 feet.
…..2.75 inches is now much rain Daytona Beach got in the last 24 hours as the tropical depression moved westward. That depression wanted so badly to become a named tropical storm but it was not to be..
…..111 in Death Valley was the hottest temperature in the USA yesterday. That place has cornered the market so far this summer having that “honor.”
…..34 was the lowest temperature anywhere in the USA this morning. It was shared by Big Piney, Wyo., Yellowstone Lake inside Yellowstone National Park and Truckee, Calif. That was three degrees (cooler) (colder) than the lowest in Alaska at Barrow. Very cool yesterday in Alaska, the highest temperature was 70 at Eagle and Fort Yukon.
…..92 was the average daily high so far this month in Orlando–an amazing eight degrees cooler than Huntsville!
…..8,000 is how many people lost their lives in the great Galveston hurricane in 1900. (A category 4) However the total deaths could be more like 10,000to 12,000. Many bodies were washed out to sea and numerous drownings occurred inland.
0.10 is the average annual rain amount at Wadi Halfa, Sudan, making it the driest spot in Africa where there are weather records. However, it blows my (little) mind when I read that some adults in the Sahara Desert have never seen it rain! (I wonder if there are some adults in South Florida that have never seen it snow???
…..24 feet is how much it is estimated that the world-wide sea level would rise if all the ice in Greenland melted!
