* 80% is the probability that the 2006 hurricane season will be more active than usual based on the NOAA outlook issued at 10 o'clock this morning. Read the details here: http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/outlooks/hurricane.shtml
* 50% plus is the numer of landfalling hurricanes or tropical storms in the USA that produce at least one spin-off tornado. Most of them produce more than one.
* 141 is the number of tornadoes produced by Hurricane Beulah in 1967. That is an all-time record.
* 150 mph is the recorded gust of the great 1926 hurricane on September 18 that devasatated downtown Miami. Every building was either damaged or destroyed. Later this hurricane moved across the North Gulf of Mexico coast. Nearly every warehouse, pier and vessel in Pensacola Bay was damaged or destroyed. It later made landfall on the Louisiana coast.
* 67 is the total population of Loving County in far West Texas near the SE corner of New Mexico. Can you imagine?
* 6 is the number of counties that adjoin Jefferson County in North-Central Alabama. They are Blount, St. Clair, Shelby, Tuscaloosa, Walker and Bibb. Only a tiny part of Bibb County touches Jefferson. Studies have shown that most people cannot name the counties adjacent to their own. It is important to know that when you see or hear severe thunderstorm or tornado warnings.
* 8 is the number of counties that touch Marengo County in West Alabama. One of the counties is Dallas, but only a small sliver of land, extending east from the Consul community, reaches over to touch a narrow western extention of Dallas County. That little narrow stirp of land prevents Wilcox County from touching the panhandle of Perry County.
* 19 was the USA low this morning at Embarrass, Minnesota. A widespread frost and freeze hit the Upper Midwest this morning. In places it was a hard freeze. Here is a list of some of the colder temperatures and it is very late in the season for it to get this cold:
19 in Embarrass, Minn.
20 at Chatam Experiment Farm, Mich.
21 in Doe Lake in Stonington, Mich.
22 in Champion, Mich.
24 at Iron Mountain and Randville, Mich.
25 at Wakefield, Mich. and Eagle River, Wisc.
26 at Rhinelander, Wisc.
27 in Marquette and Houghton, Mich. and Hibbing and Orr, Minn.
* 111 was the national high Sunday in Wink, Tex.
* 293,655,404 was the estimated 2004 population of the USA.
* 50,744 square miles is the land area of Alabama.
* 261,797 square miles is the land area of Texas.
* 83 is the sea surface temperature over the NW Caribbean, but over the north and NE Gulf of Mexico water temperatures are still in the 70s.
* 50% plus is the numer of landfalling hurricanes or tropical storms in the USA that produce at least one spin-off tornado. Most of them produce more than one.
* 141 is the number of tornadoes produced by Hurricane Beulah in 1967. That is an all-time record.
* 150 mph is the recorded gust of the great 1926 hurricane on September 18 that devasatated downtown Miami. Every building was either damaged or destroyed. Later this hurricane moved across the North Gulf of Mexico coast. Nearly every warehouse, pier and vessel in Pensacola Bay was damaged or destroyed. It later made landfall on the Louisiana coast.
* 67 is the total population of Loving County in far West Texas near the SE corner of New Mexico. Can you imagine?
* 6 is the number of counties that adjoin Jefferson County in North-Central Alabama. They are Blount, St. Clair, Shelby, Tuscaloosa, Walker and Bibb. Only a tiny part of Bibb County touches Jefferson. Studies have shown that most people cannot name the counties adjacent to their own. It is important to know that when you see or hear severe thunderstorm or tornado warnings.
* 8 is the number of counties that touch Marengo County in West Alabama. One of the counties is Dallas, but only a small sliver of land, extending east from the Consul community, reaches over to touch a narrow western extention of Dallas County. That little narrow stirp of land prevents Wilcox County from touching the panhandle of Perry County.
* 19 was the USA low this morning at Embarrass, Minnesota. A widespread frost and freeze hit the Upper Midwest this morning. In places it was a hard freeze. Here is a list of some of the colder temperatures and it is very late in the season for it to get this cold:
19 in Embarrass, Minn.
20 at Chatam Experiment Farm, Mich.
21 in Doe Lake in Stonington, Mich.
22 in Champion, Mich.
24 at Iron Mountain and Randville, Mich.
25 at Wakefield, Mich. and Eagle River, Wisc.
26 at Rhinelander, Wisc.
27 in Marquette and Houghton, Mich. and Hibbing and Orr, Minn.
* 111 was the national high Sunday in Wink, Tex.
* 293,655,404 was the estimated 2004 population of the USA.
* 50,744 square miles is the land area of Alabama.
* 261,797 square miles is the land area of Texas.
* 83 is the sea surface temperature over the NW Caribbean, but over the north and NE Gulf of Mexico water temperatures are still in the 70s.
on May 22, 2006, 10:25 am
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