I'm a numbers guy and I love statistics. I'm the young kid who knew how to do "official" scoring for baseball. Ask some one what a backwards "K" means in the the scorebook, or a what a 7-5-2 means. Weather allows me to play in the numbers. I also love history as my mind is cluttered with trivial thoughts, why else would I know that Don Knotts won his Emmy awards for guests appearances on the Andy Griffith Show, not for his earlier weekly performances of Barney Fife.

Anyway, the numbers are fascinating to me in the world of weather. There is always a comparison, a deviation from the norm, a statistical high or low.. I love it. Today we set an all time high for the pollen count in Atlanta. This number, 9369, tops the mark set just yesterday. But we will set another record today, a meteorological one. If we top 80 degrees today, that will be 7 straight of 80 plus days in a row. That is a record for March, eclipsing the old mark set of 6 straight days set back in 1907.

These highs are running at least 15 degrees above the average. The reason: a blocking area of high pressure at the surface and aloft. This high prevents cold fronts from moving our way as they run into the "bubble" and stall. That is why the areas to our west are battling severe storms and flooding. Its like the atmosphere is stuck, and it is.

While the ridge is expected to break down, no real cold air is headed this way over the next 10 days. Some scattered showers will knock the pollen down. Peace.