Confused Thermometer

| January 21, 2008 @ 1:03 pm | 6 Replies

Would you believe that the high Sunday at Barrow, Alaska was 36 making it two degrees warmer than Birmingham and Anniston and 6 degrees warmer than Cullman and Huntsville?

…..and the 12 below zero this morning atop Mt. Leconte, in Great Smoky Mountain National Park was equal the lowest in Alaska, -12 at Northway? There is 7 inches of snow on the ground atop Mt. Leconte. Newfound Gap has five inches on the ground with a low of 1 below zero.

A FEW OTHER NOTES

* Matt Padgett, 3340 Skywatcher for Moody reports a low of 18 this morning but also that the thermometer remained below freezing for 41 consecutive hours below freezing.

* Scott from Crane Hill, reminds us that the temperature at Folsom Airport was also below freezing for 41 straight hours–from 5 pm Saturday until about 10 o’clock this morning. Folsom Field is Cullman Airport, located in the Vinemont area of North Cullman County.

* Between January 23-28, 1940, the Birmingham temperature was below freezing for 116 hours in a row, over a heavy snow cover. That was a very frigid January and during the cold air siege, the temperature dropped to 10 below zero at Birmingham Airport where a weather station had been established. However, the official USWB office was still in the downtown area. There was ice skating on the Warrior River.

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