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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Afternoon Edition For Saturday July 3, 2004

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GOOD AFTERNOON! I have used about every word in my weather thesaurus to
describe the weather pattern over the Deep South the past two weeks. Messy,
damp, wet, showery, unusual all come to mind. Fortunately, the pattern
appears to be finally breaking, but not before it puts a bit of a damper on
outdoor holiday activities across the area. But hey, we have learned to
adapt. As I ran out to the store Tuesday night in a nice little shower, I
thought, this must be what Seattle is like. Of course, we get a lot more
rain here in Birmingham that they do in Seattle. Ours just comes in bigger
doses. Theirs is spread out more.

PATTERN NAMES: Readers responded to my request for their names for the
rainy pattern we have been struck in for the past several days. Here are a
couple: Martha Wilson of Gardendale calls it "showers of blessing" since
she didn't have to run the sprinklers. Amen! Jeff Newman of Vance has
dubbed it the "Frog Days of June." Very clever! Anyone else want to add to
it? Email me.

THE FORECAST: Here in North Central Alabama, high clouds from a dying
thunderstorm complex over Mississippi have given mostly cloudy skies to some
area, with others remaining mostly sunny to partly cloudy. The air over
North Central Alabama is drier and less unstable, hence the lack of
thunderstorms. Showers and storms were developing over southern Mississippi
and Southwest Alabama this afternoon. This activity should stay south of
Clanton as it moves eastward. We will still maintain the chance of
scattered thunderstorms developing during the afternoon hours. The axis of
the trough will spread into Alabama tonight, bringing a renewed chance of
additional showers and storms during the overnight hours, perhaps lasting
into Sunday morning. The precip chances should be best over eastern
sections of the areas of Sunday, with shower and storm chances lasting into
afternoon. Western sections should see diminishing chances by lunchtime,
with just widely scattered storms later in the day, if any at all. Firework
viewing opportunities should be good across the area Sunday night. As we
head into the coming week, a high pressure ridge will begin to build into
Alabama, spelling a return to a more typical summer time pattern. This
means more sun, warmer temperatures and a more widely scattered distribution
of afternoon and evening showers and storms.

FLORIDA FIRES: On this date in 1998, severe wildfire outbreak continued
across Florida as severe drought continued. Wildfires would consume 480,000
acres of land, destroyed 356 structures and caused over $270 million in
damages. Smoke from the vicious Florida fires spread all the way into the
Florida Straits, to Cuba and even to the Bahamas. Visibility was down to
only one mile in both Havana, Cuba and at Freeport in the Bahamas. The
Pepsi 400 NASCAR race at Daytona was cancelled because of fires in area.
Track officials did not want to put any more pressure on the already harried
local residents. At least 30,000 people evacuated coastal Flagler County,
Florida as fires in three sections of the area threatened to converge into
one big fire.

Bill Murray
bmurray@theweathercompany.com

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TONIGHT
A chance of showers and storms.
Morning Low 72
WIND: SW 5-10

SUNDAY
Chance of a morning shower or storm. Then partly cloudy with a slight
chance of PM storms.
Morning Low 72 Afternoon High 89
WIND: SW 5-10

MONDAY
Partly cloudy with a slight chance of afternoon/evening showers and storms.

Morning Low 71 Afternoon High 90
WIND: SW 5-10

TUESDAY
Partly cloudy with widely scattered afternoon and evening storms.
Morning Low 71 Afternoon High 91
WIND: SW 5-10

WEDNESDAY
Partly cloudy with a chance of showers and storms.
Morning Low 71 Afternoon High 88
WIND: SW 7-14

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