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mobizarre✳a field guide to
the beautifully peculiar.
02 / the archives

the past left receipts.

a reading room for old records, weather ledgers, and questions worth following.

documented finding / airport weather

the june rain ledger

14.23 inches of precipitation at mobile airport in june 2021. the wettest month among the 60 complete months in the retained 2021–2025 sample.

airport station · june 2021 · comparison window 2021–2025
source snapshot reviewed · october 8, 2026

open the note

this is accumulated precipitation depth at the station, not floodwater depth or an all-time record. the calculation sums raw tenths of millimeters before converting and rounding the monthly inches.

research doorway / archival collections

start with the mccall library.

explore the university of south alabama’s archival collections. historical stories for mobizarre still need their own fact and image-rights review.

research link checked · october 8, 2026
no archival images republished here

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a weather-shaped paper trail

the national weather service’s mobile office has historical-event and office-history pages to explore. these are source doorways, not newly reported stories.