THURSDAY WAKE UP THOUGHTS

.....Nothing more enjoyable than to awaken at 4:30 and start a new day with a fresh cup of hot coffee...yummy, yummy.

.....Practically all of the overnight precipitation is gone...outta here...about 99.999% of it was rain and drizzle.

.....Maybe we should consider those few big flakes of snow in Clay County last evening as our "Blizzard of '05."

.....By the way, we are only a couple of days away from the 12th anniversary of our famous "Blizzard of 93." Many folks have said that we will never see another winter storm like that in our lifetime. We just don't know. Nature just loves to throw curve-balls at weather forecasters. I remember when I was in the NWS that South Baldwin County went through two "100 Year Floods" just a month or so apart.

.....Will we still see snow this winter? Don't know, but it is not too late. Remember our "surprise" April snowstorm one year when dogwood trees were in full blossom and many flowers were blooming. Trees had a full coat of greenery. An erie sight. Robins were hopping around in the snow with a puzzled look on their face.

.....Temperatures this morning are 2 or 3 degrees higher than we anticipated for your daybreak....mostly in the middle 30s.

Enjoy your day. I certainly will. Life goes on.