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Check house ground rod connections,

2008-04-28T15:58:35-06:00

every Spring for loose wires/connections. It's the straw sized solid wire leading from your outside meter box to a metal rod buried below ground. Tighten connections yearly to prevent lighning surges from entering your home; they come loose with time or by getting whacked with the lawnmower and such! :ahhh:

Do lightning bolts …

2008-04-03T13:35:24-06:00

ever hit each other?? If so, what happens?? 8-/ Thanks in advance, sweetie! ;-) :red:

Hurricanes like bananas?

2008-03-22T16:38:09-06:00

They come in bunches -- according to local folklore. Seems to actually happen but is there any scientific proof? :question:

Do lightning rods really protect…

2008-02-09T20:32:57-06:00

houses against strikes or do they attract lightning as is widely belived? Most people are scared of them but it seems like every house in these parts ought to have one if it really works. Does Alan Seales have one on his home??

How much rain…

2008-01-08T22:22:17-06:00

is enough?? The yearly average for Mobile is about 60" but doesn't most of it just run off anyway? Its not really a drought if we get only 45" is it? :question:

The Big Blizzard

2007-12-11T18:41:30-06:00

Can y'all even fathom what those poor folks in Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma are going through? I can't. And now they're saying it could be TEN DAYS - or longer! - before some of those people get their power back on.

It's one thing to suffer with no power down here after a hurricane. It sucks, I hate it. But when you have no power and you're tryng to keep from freezing to death in your own home...unbelievable.

Another reason to count our blessings that we live down here in paradise.

-nab

Weather Trivia

2007-11-11T07:30:42-06:00

I decided to post about something we can ALL agree on: the weather! These are interesting weather tidbits I received in my e-mail. After reading over this list I don't think I'll be complaining about OUR weather for awhile.

Don't you know our local meteorologists wish they were the ones who could report on something as interesting as as a low temperature of -128.6 degrees F - WITHOUT wind chill?! And to think when the temps drop to almost freezing around here that's all we can talk about.

-nab

WEATHER RECORDS

Greatest rainfall in a day: 73.62 inches (R�union, Indian Ocean; March 15, 1952)

Greatest rainfall in a year: 1,041 inches (Assam, India; August 1880-1881)

World's one minute rainfall record: July 4, 1956, 1.23 inches of rain fell in Unionville, MD.

Greatest snowfall in a day: 75.8 inches (Silver Lake, Colorado; April 14-15, 1921)

Greatest snowfall in a single storm: 189 inches (Mt. Shasta, California; February 13-19, 1959)

Saratoga Springs, NY greatest snowfall: 58 inches (1888, March 11-14)

Largest hailstone: 17.5 inches (Coffeyville, Kansas; September 3, 1979) , wieght 1.67 pounds

Fastest surface wind speed: 231 miles per hour (Mount Washington, New Hampshire; April 12, 1934)

Fastest tornado winds: 286 miles per hour (Wichita Falls, Texas; April 2, 1958)

Highest world temperature: 136� F / 58� C, Al Aziziyah, Libya, 13 September, 1922

Highest USA temperature: 134� F / 56.7� C, Death Valley, California, 10 July, 1913
(neither 140� F / 60� C at Delta Mexico 8/1933 or 136.4� F / 58� C at San Luis Mexico, 8/11/1933 are internationally accepted)

Lowest world temperature: -128.6�F / -89.6�C, Vostok Station, Antarctica, 21 July 1983--without windchill.

Lowest world temperature in inhabited area: -90.4� F / -68� C, Oymyakon, Siberia (pop. 4,000), 6 February, 1933 and also at Verkhoyansk, Siberia, 3 January, 1885.

Lowest USA temperature: -79.8� F / -62.1� C, Prospect Creek, Alaska, 23 January, 1971.

Lowest USA (48 contiguous states) temperature: -69.7� F / -56.5� C, Rogers Pass, Montana, 20 January, 1954.

Lowest Northern Hemisphere Temperature: -81�F /-62.78�C; Snag, Yukon Territory(Canada); 2 February, 1947.

Fastest tornado winds: 286 miles per hour (Wichita Falls, Texas; April 2, 1958).

Longest tornado path: 293 miles on the ground, 1917, traveled from Missouri to Indiana.