Some Good Ole USA Weather Notes and Concerns

* Late this morning, a solid line of thunderstorms, overdosed with lightning, extended from the west Gulf of Mexico northeastward to just off the Southeast Louisiana Coast to just off the east part of the Northwest Florida Panhandle. The rest of the USA was relatively quiet,

* A blistering 118 was the official hottest temperature in the nation Sunday. That area holds the all time high for the USA of 134 (only two degrees lower than the world record of 136!

* 32 was the lowest in all of the 50 states this morning at Tomahawak,  Wisc.

* In Alaska, 35 was the coolest at Tin City.

* It was a cool 46 in North Adams, Mass., this morning

* 39 was the low in Saranac Lake, in Upstate New York. The northeast part of this great country is getting a good break from a long hot  summer and autumn.

* Will the forest fires ever end? This has to be the worst year on record. This morning more wild fires had broken out in several counties of Northern California. Dozens of homes were in danger of being  burned to the ground.

A LOOK AT SOME 2012 RAIN SCORE CARDS

…33.82 inches so far this year at Huntsville…a shortage of 1.17 inches

…27.54 at Muscle Shoals, a deficiency of 6.97 inches

…31.33 at Anniston. a shortage of 2.38 inches

…18.37 inches at Auburn, shortage not available

…32.29 at Birmingham Airport, a shortage of 3.34

…39.39 at Calera (Shelby County Airport) and excess of 3.15

…28.42 at Montgomery/Dannelly Field…a shortage of 6.78

…29.03 at Tuscaloosa Airport, a shortage of of 5.61 inches

…41.70 at Troy, an excess of 5.15 inches

…50.02 at Mobile Regional Airport, an excess of 5.22

WEATHER BRAINS: The Alabama State Climatologist, based at UAH/Huntsville will be our guest tonight. Looking forward to that. For a number of years, Alabama was the only state without a state climatologist. The MIC at USWB, Montgomery filled in during that. After he retired, I did it for several years. Just the work–no title It was an awesome task–especially the tornado surveys.

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