Nov 28, 2024

Happy Thanksgiving.

Speaking of, if you're on social media, you've seen all the Thanksgiving engagement posts pitting one southern food opinion against another. We don't have time for all the questions, but the answers are:

Roasted ... dressing ... no marshmallows ... canned ... and pecan.

Y'all have a peaceful holiday. Thanks for reading,

Ike

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So how well did the seasonal hurricane projections do in predicting the number of hurricanes, named storms, etc., this year? Surely better than the college football prognosticators did this fall.

If you recall, meteorologists and climatologists were expecting a busy year.

AL.com's Leigh Morgan reports that the projections were pretty dang solid.

They always update their projections during the middle of the Atlantic Hurricane season, but we're going to hold them to their original estimates.

First, an average hurricane season will produce 14 named storms, seven hurricanes and three major hurricanes.

NOAA's projection was more aggressive than that. It called for 17-25 named storms, and we've had 18; it called for 8-13 hurricanes, and we've had 11; it called for four to seven major Hurricanes, and we've had five.

Well done, NOAA.

Alabama A&M linebacker Medrick Burnett Jr. was still on life support last night despite reports that he had died, reports AL.com's Heather Gann.

Burnett suffered a head injury during the Magic City Classic against Alabama State on Oct. 26.

A&M announced that he had died in a press release. The school has since retracted the statement, said Burnette was indeed still alive, and released a statement saying it regretted sharing false information.

Burnett is a native of Lakewood, California.

Truck drivers and other travelers have another substantial spot to break up the drive on Interstate 85.

AL.com's William Thornton reports that a new Pilot travel center has opened up in Tuskegee. The establishment has 93 parking spaces, seven diesel lanes. and will feature mobile fueling, laundry facilities, restrooms and showers.

1,462,616

That's the record number of people in Alabama voted for President-elect Donald Trump

In 1929, the late lead singer of The Blind Boys of Alabama Clarence Fountain of Tyler (That's in Dallas County).

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