FIRST--A QUICK LATE MORNING ALABAMA UPDATE
Not a single shower around Alabama at 10:15 am. The heaviest rain from that old wannabe tropical depression(it never became one) was over NW Louisiana and SW Arkansas. Down in SW Louisina, Lake Charles was flooded with 5.18 inches yesterday. Shreveport reports 1.56 in the last 24 hours.
204-DEGREE TEMPERATURE CONTRAST
Time to play a bit, although this is serious enough. At 10 this morning (Alabama time), there was a 204 degree difference in temperature between these two locations:
BASARAH, IRAQ
118 degrees with 9% humidity and wind NW at 28 mph. That would be almost like standing in front of one of the old blast furnaces that used to dot the skyline of Fairfield and Ensley. Remember the distinct nighttime glow on the city's west side years ago? Back in those days, TCI was the areas largest employer.
VOSTOK, ANTARCTICA
86 below zero with low drifting snow. That means that snow would be swirling around your feet and legs even though no additional snow was falling. Sustained winds were 17 mph sending the wind chill to 153 below zero. This means that James Spann, the only person I know that is as hot-natured as I am, would be wearing a coat, or at least a light sweater. That part of the workd is in mid-winter, of course.
While we are looking at both ends of the thermometer, the extremes around the lower 48 states of the good ole USA included 122 in Death Valley yesterday afternoon and 38 this morning at Stanley, Idaho, nestled in the Sawtooth Mountains.
I want to do a story on our 1952 heat wave real soon...
Weather and climate is very interesting ...and life goes on. I enjoyed the stories about haze by Drew and Jason posted earlier. Be sure and scroll down to see those.
Not a single shower around Alabama at 10:15 am. The heaviest rain from that old wannabe tropical depression(it never became one) was over NW Louisiana and SW Arkansas. Down in SW Louisina, Lake Charles was flooded with 5.18 inches yesterday. Shreveport reports 1.56 in the last 24 hours.
204-DEGREE TEMPERATURE CONTRAST
Time to play a bit, although this is serious enough. At 10 this morning (Alabama time), there was a 204 degree difference in temperature between these two locations:
BASARAH, IRAQ
118 degrees with 9% humidity and wind NW at 28 mph. That would be almost like standing in front of one of the old blast furnaces that used to dot the skyline of Fairfield and Ensley. Remember the distinct nighttime glow on the city's west side years ago? Back in those days, TCI was the areas largest employer.
VOSTOK, ANTARCTICA
86 below zero with low drifting snow. That means that snow would be swirling around your feet and legs even though no additional snow was falling. Sustained winds were 17 mph sending the wind chill to 153 below zero. This means that James Spann, the only person I know that is as hot-natured as I am, would be wearing a coat, or at least a light sweater. That part of the workd is in mid-winter, of course.
While we are looking at both ends of the thermometer, the extremes around the lower 48 states of the good ole USA included 122 in Death Valley yesterday afternoon and 38 this morning at Stanley, Idaho, nestled in the Sawtooth Mountains.
I want to do a story on our 1952 heat wave real soon...
Weather and climate is very interesting ...and life goes on. I enjoyed the stories about haze by Drew and Jason posted earlier. Be sure and scroll down to see those.
on July 27, 2006, 11:05 am
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