Lioness in Tree
Wettest Year Ever
Congratulations, St. Louis.
With this afternoon's rain, frozen rain, sleet, and hail, we set a new record for wettest year. From the Weather Underground:
Statement as of 2:40 PM CST on December 23, 2008 ... Record yearly maximum precipitation set at St. Louis MO... A record yearly maimum precipitation of 55.00 inches was set at St. Louis today. This breaks the old record of 54.97 inches set in 1982.
We managed to flood every river, stream, creek, and dry bed this year. Though none of the floods beat any records, the number of floods was extraordinary, as was the fact that every flood came perilously close to beating records. However, at least we haven't been getting the snow other areas are getting. Knock on soggy wood.
Babies
The St. Louis Zoo had an exceptional year when it came to zoo babies. As a Christmas treat, I give you the cute, the furry, the frolicking, and the fun.
Kalama was born in August, 2008. There are now only 2,200 Grevy's Zebras in the wild, but there's a healthy population in zoos. The same can also be said of our next baby, a giraffe who was famous literally from birth.
Read on...
