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  2. Climate of Alabama - Wikipedia

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    Alabama generally has hot, humid summers and mild winters with copious precipitation throughout the year. The state receives an average of 56 inches (1,400 mm) of rainfall each year and experiences a lengthy growing season of up to 300 days in its southern portion. [2] Hailstorms occur occasionally during the spring and summer here, but they ...

  3. Birmingham, Alabama - Wikipedia

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    The record high temperature is 107 °F ... Birmingham city, Alabama – Racial and ethnic composition ... Alabama Bound is an annual book and author fair that ...

  4. John Christy - Wikipedia

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    nsstc.uah.edu /users /john.christy /. John Raymond Christy is a climate scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) whose chief interests are satellite remote sensing of global climate and global climate change. He is best known, jointly with Roy Spencer, for the first successful development of a satellite temperature record.

  5. Sloss Furnaces - Wikipedia

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    Sloss Furnaces is a National Historic Landmark in Birmingham, Alabama in the United States. It operated as a pig iron -producing blast furnace from 1882 to 1971. After closing, it became one of the first industrial sites (and the only blast furnace) in the U.S. to be preserved and restored for public use. In 1981, the furnaces were designated a ...

  6. List of weather records - Wikipedia

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    The highest natural ground surface temperature ever recorded may have been an alleged reading of 93.9 °C (201.0 °F) at Furnace Creek, California, United States, on 15 July 1972. [7] In 2011, a ground temperature of 84 °C (183.2 °F) was recorded in Port Sudan, Sudan. [8] The theoretical maximum possible ground surface temperature has been ...

  7. 1993 Storm of the Century - Wikipedia

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    Birmingham, Alabama, reported a rare 13 in (33 cm) of snow. [2] [3] The Florida Panhandle reported up to around 6 inches to a foot of snow, [4] with hurricane-force wind gusts and record low barometric pressures.

  8. Highest temperature recorded on Earth - Wikipedia

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    The current official highest registered air temperature on Earth is 56.7 °C (134.1 °F), recorded on 10 July 1913 at Furnace Creek Ranch, in Death Valley in the United States. [1] For few years, a former record that was measured in Libya had been in place, until it was decertified in 2012 based on evidence that it was an erroneous reading.

  9. U.S. state and territory temperature extremes - Wikipedia

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    Minimum temperature map of the United States from 1871–1888 Maximum temperature map of the United States from 1871–1888. The following table lists the highest and lowest temperatures recorded in the 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and the 5 inhabited U.S. territories during the past two centuries, in both Fahrenheit and Celsius. [1]