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Weather By The Numbers

| December 18, 2007 @ 4:52 pm | 8 Replies

* 3 inches is how much snow was still on the ground today on Mt. LeConte in the Great Smoky Mountains and at Beech Mountain, North Carolina.

* 22 inches is how much snow these latest storms dumped on Caribou, Maine. That city, about as far north as you can go in Maine, receives an average of 112 inches of snow each winter.

* 51 percent is how much of the Lower 48 states was covered by snow today. That is down from 57 percent yesterday. That is an impressive snow blanket this early in the season.

* 33 inches was the snow depth at Poorman Creek, Montana, 207 inches at Dollarhide Summit, Idaho and 106 inches at Crazyman Flat, Oregon. That is just three reports, selected at random, to show some of the mountain snow pack in the west. Water interests throughout the west keep a close check on the snow pack. Those three stations are automated ones in very remote areas and part of the snow survey network. I absolutely love those place names)

* 31.16 inches was the 2007 rain deficit at Tuscaloosa today. Simply amazing. The shortage was 30.15 inches for Anniston. Birmingham not quite as bad with a shortfall of 24.57 inches. Downstate it is not as bad. The Mobile deficit is 16.12 inches.

* 92 is how many mountain peaks in the USA have an elevation of 14,000 feet or more. Mount McKinley in Alaska is the champ with an elevation of 20,320 feet.

* 18,008 feet is the second tallest mountain in the U.S and that is Mount St. Elias in Alaska.

* 16 of the tallest U.S mountains are all in Alaska.

* Tallest in the Lower 48 is Mount Whitney, Calif., at 14.494 feet.

* 8 feet below sea level is the mean elevation of New Orleans.

* 12 is the coldest temperature ever recorded in Hawaii. It was on May 17, 1979 on Mauna Key.

* 71 inches is the average annual snow amount for Anchorage.

* 1080 feet is the average elevation of Australia making it the lowest continent in the world.

* 35,827 feet is the deepest point in the Pacific Ocean. It is over in the western Pacific and is called “Challenger Deep.” That is nearly 7 miles deep. Can you imagine?

* 840.000 square miles is the size of Greenland, making it the largest island in the world.

* 3,710 miles is how long the Mississippi-Missouri River system is making it the 4th longest in the world. The Nile is the longest.

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