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Alabama is also prone to tropical storms and even hurricanes. Areas of the state far away from the Gulf are not immune to the effects of the storms, which often dump tremendous amounts of rain as they move inland and weaken. [7] Thunderstorms are common during the summer throughout Alabama and also occur during other times of the year including ...
In 2016, the United States Environmental Protection Agency released an assessment of the effect of climate change on Alabama, assessing various likely outcomes, noting that "[c]hanging the climate is likely to increase damages from tropical storms, reduce crop yields, harm livestock, increase the number of unpleasantly hot days, and increase the risk of heat stroke and other heat-related ...
Map of the United States with Kentucky highlighted. Kentucky, a state in the United States, has 418 active cities. [1] The two most populous cities, Louisville and Lexington, are designated "first class" cities. A first class city would normally have a mayor-alderman government, but that does not apply to the merged governments in Louisville ...
Central Kentucky has seemingly broken from other parts of the state in that it’s been uniquely wet in the region. Between March 1 and Wednesday, Lexington has seen 9.81 inches of precipitation.
La Grange made the ninth spot on the list and the magazine described it as "The Miss Manners of small towns," according to the article. La Grange made the top 10 list of 'Most Charming Small Towns ...
The Dixie Alley region indicated by red shaded area.. Dixie Alley includes much of the area of the lower Mississippi Valley. [7] It stretches from eastern Texas and Arkansas across Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, and mid to western Kentucky to upstate South Carolina and western North Carolina; the area reaches as far north as southeast Missouri. [8]
It’s OK if you don’t know that Alabama’s state bird is the Northern flicker or that it’s home to 32 percent of the U.S. snail population and the only riverboat mail route in the country.
Kentucky's regions (click on image for color-coding information) Kentucky can be divided into five primary regions: the Cumberland Plateau in the east, which contains much of the historic coal mines; the north-central Bluegrass region, where the major cities and the state capital (Frankfort) are located; the south-central and western Pennyroyal Plateau (also known as the Pennyrile or ...