* 70+ mph is how high the wind got in the San Francisco area yesterday. Very stormy on the West Coast.
* 70 is the high forecast for Birmingham today, about 8 degrees above normal. Just think, it was as low as 19 yesterday morning in Alabama, at Hamilton and Black Creek.
* 5 is how old Jason Simpson was when he became convinced he wanted to be a meteorologist. He remembers watching thunderstorms through the screen door at that age. His sister teased and called him a weatherman. "Seems she was right" says Jason. He does not look much older than 5 now. (just teasing)
* 5 is also the number of major Civil War battlefields that Bill Murray still has to visit. Then he plans to start over.
* 7 is the number of spring training baseball games Bill has attended.
* 2 is the number of major league baseball games I have attended in my lifetime.
* 6 is how many months has passed since Hurricane Katrina moved ashore and devastated New Orleans and the Mississippi-Alabama Gulf Coast.
* 15 million is the estimated number of cubic yards of Hurricane katrina debris still to be removed from the Mississippi Coast alone. Can you imagine?
* 19 inches is the San Antonio rainfall deficiency just in the last 14 months.
* 132 days is how long Phoenix has gone without even a sprinkle of rain. A few showers were expected yesterday but it did not happen. There are increasing hopes for rain today and tomorrow but amounts are expected to be 2/10ths of an inch at the most.
* 1.6 inches is till all the snow that Flagstaff has received all winter. One of the most amazing stats I can remember. Flagstaff is in the Northern Arizona snow country. The San Francisco peaks are nearby--the highest points in Arizona along with a ski area. We camped way up on the west slop of one of those peaks one night. It appeared certain that powerful west winds were going to overturn our pickup camper.
* 1.6 inches is also the approxmate "normal" winter snow for Birminghamm. That makes the Flagstaff stat even more amazing.
* 40 below zero was the coldest in Alaska this morning at Wainwright.
* 57 below zero was the wind chill at that same location.
* 4 is how many cups of coffee I have had this morning. Trying to cut back.
* 0 is how many frosted brown sugar cinnamon poptarts I have had since Christmas. Yummy, yummy. I still pause in the isle at the supermarket and talk to the poptarts but i keep moving.
* 500 is the estimated number of shopping carts I have retrieved and returned to their proper place in grocery store parking lots in my life time. Yesterday, I thought I had found a parking place only to find it was blocked by a shopping cart that someone was too lazy to return to the corral which was only 15 feet away. Some people just don't care. One day in a Trussville grocery store parking lot, I grabbed a stray cart that a gust of wind was sending toward a parked car. As I returned it to the corral, a lady stopped to thank me. She said she had just moved here from Germany and said people just did not leave carts in the open where she came from. I don't know about that but it is a nuisiance.
* 1 is how many Storm Alert 2006 programs still to go. It is at 7 tonight in the Tuscaloosa area (at the Northport Civic Center to be exact)
* 70 is the high forecast for Birmingham today, about 8 degrees above normal. Just think, it was as low as 19 yesterday morning in Alabama, at Hamilton and Black Creek.
* 5 is how old Jason Simpson was when he became convinced he wanted to be a meteorologist. He remembers watching thunderstorms through the screen door at that age. His sister teased and called him a weatherman. "Seems she was right" says Jason. He does not look much older than 5 now. (just teasing)
* 5 is also the number of major Civil War battlefields that Bill Murray still has to visit. Then he plans to start over.
* 7 is the number of spring training baseball games Bill has attended.
* 2 is the number of major league baseball games I have attended in my lifetime.
* 6 is how many months has passed since Hurricane Katrina moved ashore and devastated New Orleans and the Mississippi-Alabama Gulf Coast.
* 15 million is the estimated number of cubic yards of Hurricane katrina debris still to be removed from the Mississippi Coast alone. Can you imagine?
* 19 inches is the San Antonio rainfall deficiency just in the last 14 months.
* 132 days is how long Phoenix has gone without even a sprinkle of rain. A few showers were expected yesterday but it did not happen. There are increasing hopes for rain today and tomorrow but amounts are expected to be 2/10ths of an inch at the most.
* 1.6 inches is till all the snow that Flagstaff has received all winter. One of the most amazing stats I can remember. Flagstaff is in the Northern Arizona snow country. The San Francisco peaks are nearby--the highest points in Arizona along with a ski area. We camped way up on the west slop of one of those peaks one night. It appeared certain that powerful west winds were going to overturn our pickup camper.
* 1.6 inches is also the approxmate "normal" winter snow for Birminghamm. That makes the Flagstaff stat even more amazing.
* 40 below zero was the coldest in Alaska this morning at Wainwright.
* 57 below zero was the wind chill at that same location.
* 4 is how many cups of coffee I have had this morning. Trying to cut back.
* 0 is how many frosted brown sugar cinnamon poptarts I have had since Christmas. Yummy, yummy. I still pause in the isle at the supermarket and talk to the poptarts but i keep moving.
* 500 is the estimated number of shopping carts I have retrieved and returned to their proper place in grocery store parking lots in my life time. Yesterday, I thought I had found a parking place only to find it was blocked by a shopping cart that someone was too lazy to return to the corral which was only 15 feet away. Some people just don't care. One day in a Trussville grocery store parking lot, I grabbed a stray cart that a gust of wind was sending toward a parked car. As I returned it to the corral, a lady stopped to thank me. She said she had just moved here from Germany and said people just did not leave carts in the open where she came from. I don't know about that but it is a nuisiance.
* 1 is how many Storm Alert 2006 programs still to go. It is at 7 tonight in the Tuscaloosa area (at the Northport Civic Center to be exact)
on February 28, 2006, 10:15 am
2.10" is the amount of rain we have received in the last 24 hours in my "Tiny Corner of The World"...45 miles east of downtown Los Angeles.
2 hrs 10 minutes is how long it took me to get home from work yesterday evening. (25 mile drive.)
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