WEATHER BY THE NUMBERS–3/6/07

* 90 is how many miles the powerful tornado that struck Enterprise carried a yearbook and vice principal’s nameplate. Those two items were airborne until they landed in Richland, Georgia. Richland is about 30 miles SE of Columbus on US-280. Thanks to Derek Kinkade, meteorologist with WTVM-TV in Columbus for that very interesting bit of information. Derek is a great friend to all of us.

* 18 was the noon temperature in the Big Apple (sometimes known as New York City) after a low of 11 this morning. The low tonight is expected to be 12 with a wind chill of zero.

* 50% is the chance of snow in New York tomorrow.

* 16 below zero was the low at Saranac Lake in Upstate New York this morning. They have really had a winter.

* 95 mph was the wind gust atop Mt. Washington, New Hampshire at noon with a temperature of 35 below zero. Since midnight they have had gusts as high as 109 mph and a wind chill of 90 below.

* 24 below was the coldest in the lower 48 states this morning at Land ‘O Lakes, Wisconsin.

* 43 below was one of the coldest in Alaska this morning at Colville Village.

* 77 was the temperature on Guam this morning at 4:00 a.m. their time or about noon Alabama time. Just mentioning that to warm you up a bit.

* 88 is how many inches of snow was on the ground today at Alta, Utah, a ski area in the Wasatch Mountains SE of Salt Lake.

* 35 inches was the snow depth at Whittier, Alaska today. I mention that because a few weeks ago they had 83 inches.

* 1937 was the year that SPAM was introduced. Not the kind, mind you, that makes us computer users want to jump off into Little River Canyon. It was the canned meat Spam (yummy, yummy).

* 29 cents is all you had to pay for two pounds of ground beef in 1937.

* 2 cents was the cost of a daily newspaper.

* 20 cents was the price of a gallon of gasoline.

* $1.39 was the average price of a nice men’s dress shirt.

* 39 was the number of fatalities from tornadoes in the USA in the year 2005.

* 25 of those were in Indiana.

* 31 of the USA deaths were caused by an F3 tornado.

* 6 was the number of F3 tornadoes in the USA in 2005–more than any other intensity.

* 34 of the 39 deaths in 2005 tornadoes were in mobile homes.

* 3 were in permanent homes.

* 1.20 inches represents the normal annual rainfall for the driest location in North America. That honor belongs to Batagues, Mexico.

* 1,265 is the approximate number of days that Little Miss Molly has been in our home.

* 5,000 is the number of scoops I have cleaned up after that little girl (approximately). I am known in my tiny corner of the world as the man with the little blue scoop. I hope to be as famous as Johnny Appleseed for that one good deed. I do guest scoops for other people in the aea that do not honor the Trussville leash law.

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