Weather History - Nov. 04 (101st Post)

1927 - A great Vermont flood occurred. Tropical rains deluged the Green Mountain area of Vermont causing the worst flood in the history of the state. Torrential rains, up to 15 inches in the higher elevations, sent streams on a rampage devastating the Winooski Valley. Flooding claimed 200 lives and caused 40 million dollars damage. The town of Vernon reported 84 deaths. Flooding left up to eight to ten feet of water in downtown Montpelier VT.

1985 - A super wet Gulf storm dumped upwards of fifteen inches of rain in the mountains of Virginia and West Virginia causing devastating damage and claiming forty lives.

1988 - Thunderstorms developing ahead of a fast moving cold front produced severe weather over the Tennessee Valley and the Central Gulf Coast States during the afternoon and evening hours, and into the next morning. Thunderstorms spawned nineteen tornadoes, including eleven in Mississippi. The last of the nineteen tornadoes killed a woman in her mobile home in Lee FL. A tornado in Culbert AL injured sixteen people, and caused two million dollars damage. Thunderstorms also produced baseball size hail in Alabama. Unseasonably hot air prevailed south of the cold front. McAllen TX was the hot spot in the nation with a high of 102 degrees

NOEL UPDATE

**Yes this is really from the Canadian Hurricane Centre

Post-tropical storm Noel information statement issued by the Canadian Hurricane Centre of Environment Canada at 9.00 PM ADT Saturday 03 November 2007.

The next statement will be issued by 12 midnight ADT.

Weather conditions deteriorating as Noel approaches the Maritimes

..Preparation efforts should now be completed...

At 9.00 PM ADT... Post-tropical storm Noel was located near Latitude 40.7 N and longitude 68.5 W... About 220 nautical miles Or 400 km south southwest of Yarmouth Nova Scotia. Maximum sustained Winds are estimated at 75 knots...139 km/h...And central pressure at968 MB. Noel is moving north northeast at 31 knots...57 km/h.

The current track has been moved back toward the east of thePrevious one..Based on a farther-east storm position at forecastTime. This track brings the storm center just west of Nova Scotia..Into the Bay of Fundy then across southeastern New Brunswick and eventually through central Labrador.

Although Noel is a post-tropical storm we expect it to beAccompanied by hurricane force winds. The public is advised not to focus on the actual track of the storm centre since the high winds and heavy rains will extend very far from the track line itself.

Daylight Savings Ends Tonight!

Don't forget to turn your clocks back one hour before you head off to bed tonight. Enjoy the extra hour of sleep!

Frost Advisory

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL

248 PM CDT SAT NOV 3 2007

...SCATTERED FROST EXPECTED OVERNIGHT....

A COMBINATION OF DRY AIR...LIGHT TO CALM WINDS...AND CLEAR SKIES TONIGHT WILL RESULT IN TEMPERATURES DROPPING INTO THE MID AND UPPER 30S...OVER A LARGE PART OF NORTH ALABAMA. SCATTERED FROST IS EXPECTED TO FORM OVER THE SAME AREA...PARTICULARLY AFTER 3 AM.A FROST ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT TONIGHT GENERALLY ALONG AND NORTH OF A LINE FROM ALICEVILLE TO CENTREVILLE...TO ROANOKE.

Weather History - Nov. 03

1927 - Devastating floods occurred on this date in 1927 in New England. Nearly 15 inches of rain fell over parts of western New England while 8.77 inches of rain fell at Somerset, Ver., marking a 24-hour record for the state. The flooding, dubbed "The Great Vermont Flood" claimed 200 lives.

1987 - Twenty-one cities, mostly in the Ohio Valley, reported record high temperatures for the date. The afternoon high of 80 degrees at Columbus OH was their warmest reading of record for so late in the season. Showers and thundershowers associated with a tropical depression south of Florida produced 4.28 inches of rain at Clewiston in 24 hours.

1989 - Cold weather prevailed in the central U.S. Six cities in Texas, Minnesota, and Michigan, reported record low temperatures for the date. The low of 7 above zero at Marquette MI was their coldest reading of record for so early in the season.

Weather History - Nov. 2

1961 - The temperature at Atlanta, GA, reached 84 degrees to establish a record for November.

1987 - A dozen cities, mostly in the Ohio Valley, reported record high temperatures for the date. Record highs included 83 degrees at Paducah KY and 84 degrees at Memphis TN. Temperatures reached 70 degrees as far north as southern Lower Michigan. Showers and thundershowers over southern Florida, associated with a tropical depression, produced 4.77 inches of rain at Tavernier, located in the Upper Florida Keys.

HURRICANE NOEL UPDATE 5AM

AT 5AM...THE CENTER OF HURRICANE NOEL WAS LOCATED ABOUT 675 MILES WEST-SOUTHWEST OF BERMUDA AND ABOUT 470 MILES SOUTH OF CAPE HATTERAS NORTH CAROLINA. NOEL IS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTH-NORTHEAST NEAR 18 MPH AND THIS MOTION IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE WITH AN INCREASE IN FORWARDSPEED DURING THE NEXT 24 HOURS. MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS ARE NEAR 80 MPH WITH HIGHERGUSTS. NOEL IS A CATEGORY ONE HURRICANE ON THE SAFFIR-SIMPSON SCALE. LITTLE CHANGE IN STRENGTH IS FORECAST DURING THE NEXT 24HOURS....BUT NOEL IS EXPECTED TO LOSE TROPICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND BECOME A POWERFUL EXTRATROPICAL CYCLONE WITHIN THE NEXT 24 HOURS.