The Alabama Weather Blog

If you don't like the weather in Alabama, just wait ten minutes.

Current Time:


Wednesday, August 04, 2004

ABC 33/40 E-Forecast

ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Afternoon Edition For Wednesday August 4, 2004 ==================================================================
WILSON'S WEDDING CHAPEL
WE DO IT ALL FOR YOU!

Wilson's Wedding Chapel in Gardendale can give you beautiful wedding memories for a lifetime. Forty years experience making weddings unforgettable.

We provide it all, the place, flowers and food. Walk in and out, everything is to perfection. We can arrange for a minister and photographer if desired.

Romantic Chapel with sitting for 200 or a beautiful Victorian courtyard for outdoors with room for 400 with a good sound system.

Visit our website for pictures of chapel, courtyard, food and flowers.
http://www.wilsonsweddingchapel.com or call 205-631-8755 for more information.
==================================================================

WAITING AND WATCHING: Maybe we should have a big parade when that cold front comes through Central Alabama by midday tomorrow. Surely there will be dancing in the streets after all the hot weather and air quality alerts we’ve had lately. I jokingly told one of our readers that we would bill them for this nice change in weather, but that we would also give S&H green stamps, which most of you are too young to remember.

That cold front is expected to be close to the Alabama-Tennessee border tomorrow morning. We think it will move through the Tuscaloosa-Birmingham-Anniston areas around midday. Look for some scattered showers and thunderstorms along and ahead of the front. There is always a chance of a strong storm with a big change like this, but we don’t expect that many showers and storms.

It will be clearing tomorrow night. After that Friday, Saturday and Sunday will be as nice as you could expect for early August. I’m going out on a limb a bit and predict that someplace in north Alabama will report a 53-degree low Saturday morning. Here in central Alabama we look for an average of 58. Another big bonus is much lower humidity, especially Friday and Saturday.

We’re not the only ones in for a nice break. Even down at Gulf Shores highs Saturday and Sunday will be in the upper 80s with mostly sunshine and lower humidity. There are some indications that this front will eventually push all the way into south Florida. In Orlando, the official forecast calls for “sunny and less humid on Saturday with a high of 88.”

TROPICAL WEATHER: No more worry about Hurricane Alex. He is moving faster
and faster out into the open Atlantic. By the time you read this, he will be about 700 miles ENE of the North Carolina Outer Banks.

Meanwhile, the second tropical depression of the season was moving rapidly west about 390 miles SE of San Juan, Puerto Rico. Even though it remains pretty organized, it should become tropical storm Bonnie in the next 24 hours.

THE SUN FINALLY DISAPPEARED: At Barrow, on the north coast of Alaska, the sun finally went down Monday for the first time in almost three months. It did not stay away long. After setting at 1:54 a.m., it rose again one hour and 20 minutes later. That region, of course, has 24 hours of sunlight in summer, while this winter will bring 24 hours of darkness. Have you noticed that our days are also getting shorter? Official sunset for Birmingham today is 7:45, but in late June and early July the sun set 16 minutes later. We’ve also lost 26 minutes of sunlight in the early morning—a net loss of 42 minutes since our longest day.

MY TINY CORNER OF THE WORLD: It is unheard of, but little Miss Molly slept
until 9 this morning. That gave me 4 hours of quiet time. I always automatically wake up at 5. It’s my fault that Molly’s sleep is all mixed up. We had another play session shortly after midnight, so she was pooped. One thing for sure—if we get down to our forecast 58 degrees Saturday morning, I’m going to drag Molly out of bed at 5 and have a long walk with her. Sure have spent a lot of time playing with Molly in the last 24 hours. I‘m glad you can‘t hear our conversation when we walk together. I talk to her like she‘s a young child. In one sense she is. Our lives are intertwined and life goes merrily and too rapidly along.

J. B. Elliott
jbelliott@charter.net

ABC 33/40 7 Day Planner: http://abc3340.com/weather/7day.hrb
ABC 33/40 Weathertalk: http://beta.abc3340.com/weather/weathertalk.hrb

*******************************************************

TONIGHT
Mostly clear, but clouds increase toward daybreak.
Morning Low 74
WIND: SW 4-7

THURSDAY
Breezy and not as hot with a chance of showers and a few thunderstorms. Clearing and cooler at night.
Morning Low 74 Afternoon High 87
WIND: N 10-16

FRIDAY
A cool early morning. A very pleasant day with much lower humidity.
Morning Low 60 Afternoon High 85
WIND: N 7-14

SATURDAY
Sunny and less humid. A cool morning.
Morning Low 58 Afternoon High 87
WIND: NE 6-12

SUNDAY
Mostly sunny.
Morning Low 61 Afternoon High 89
WIND: E 5-10

============================================================
ADVERTISER AT THE TOP OF THIS E-FORECAST FOR JUST $95 PER WEEK

You can reach over 16,400 people in the greater Birmingham area every day for one week for just $95. Your ad will appear at the top of this ABC 33/40 E-Forecast.

This is not "spam" e-mail....every one of our 16,400 subscribers has signed up to receive the e-forecast. It is read each and every day, creating nearly 115,000 impressions throughout the week.

Spaces are filling up quickly for the last half of 2004. Try this unique and very successful form of advertising your product or service.

Contact Bill at billh@theweathercompany.com or call 205-985-9725 ===========================================================
*********************************************************

Tonight on ABC 33/40

6:00pm ABC 33/40 News
6:30pm Wheel Of Fortune
7:00pm My Wife And Kids
7:30pm My Wife And Kids
8:00pm The Drew Carey Show
8:30pm The Drew Carey Show
9:00pm The Ultimate Love Test
10:00pm ABC 33/40 News
10:35pm ABC News Nightline
11:05pm Jimmy Kimmel Live

*********************************************************

If you are interested in advertising on this E-Forecast, please contact us at 205-985-9725 or billh@theweathercompany.com. Ads reach over 16,300 subscribers each day, creating nearly 115,000 impressions each week.


To subscribe or unsubscribe from the ABC 33/40 E-Forecast, go here:
http://www.jamesspann.com/eforecast.html