WEATHER BY THE NUMBERS--March 22

* Few is how many snow flurries reported by one of our blog readers in Cullman at mid-morning

* 0 is the amount of snow on the ground at Birmingham (will it ever, ever snow again here?)

* 43% is how much of the Lower 48 States now covered by snow

* 35% was how much was covered last month for comparision

* 208 inches of snow now on the ground at Leavitt Lake, Calif., elevation 9399 feet

* 201 inches is the snow depth at Paradise Ranger Station, Mt. Rainier, Wash.

* 191 inches on the ground at Kimberly Mine, Utah, elevation 9277 feet

* 137 inches of snow at Tony Grove Lake, Utah, up in Logan Canyon near the Idaho border. A beautiful site...we have camped there

* 15 is the approxmately number of 3-pointers our friend Josh Johnson had in a wild driveway basketball game at Jason Simpson's house Saturday (Jason is chief weather guy at WTOK-TV, Meridian)

* 0 is how many points I scored (I did not even hit the rim a single time)

* 22 was the wind chill this morning at Olive Branch, Miss., in the NW corner of the state just south of Memphis. 32 was the temperature. And, this is supposed to be spring?

* 13 was the low temperature on Newfound Gap, Smoky Mountains, this morning with a trace of snow on the ground

* 11 was the low atop Mt. Leconte

* 24 was the temperature in Mountain City, Tenn., with a wind chill of 14 and snow flurries

* 2 below zero was the low in the Lower 48 this morning

* 26 below took the prize at Nuiqsut, Alaska

* 91 in Tallahassee, Palm Beach and Vero Beach was the USA high yesterday

* 90 is how long I got to sleep during a power nap at mid morning. 90 SECONDS that is before Little Miss Molly landed on my bed, burrowed under the covers and made me get up

FINAL NOTE
The USA snow pack this morning extends as far south as SW Kansas, North Missouri, South Illinois, Northeast half of Kentucky, SW Virginia and West North Carolina with 43% of the Lower 48 covered by snow. There were many times during the heart of winter that the snow pack was not that extensive

* 30 seconds is all that Molly is giving me to close out this report and take her for a walk. She is ringing her little bell on the back door knob as if Joe Lewis was boxing it. (all of you are too young to remember Alabama-born Joe, champion heavy-weight boxer)

Posted by Craig  
on March 22, 2006, 12:27 pm
An interesting story here in the DFW area today... a man was pulled over by the Dallas Police for a traffic violation, stopped his car, opened his door and ran into a field. After that 8 inches of rain we got this weekend, the field was a little soggy to say the least. He sunk up to his waist in mud and, with the temperature in the low 40's with a howling wind, died-probably due to hypothermia! The police couldn't rescue him because when they tried to pick him up, they sank deeper and deeper themselves. Talk about news of the weird, mother nature style! Unbelievable

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