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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Afternoon Edition For Tuesday August 24, 2004
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A REPEAT PERFORMANCE: It's the same old story for Alabama-no major change in
our weather. August is still rolling along with below normal temperatures.
Brian Peters has been doing "rolling research" as the month has progressed.
Using actual records through yesterday and projecting based on the latest
forecast, he thinks Birmingham will end with the 4th coolest August on
record. Our records go back to the 1880s. Of course a noticeable warm up
toward the end of the month could make it the 5th or 6th coolest.

For the next several days, we think our high temperatures will be between
86-88. Cloud cover will be more than normal and the daily showers and
thunderstorms will help. We will have those every day but probably the best
chance will be tomorrow and sometime this weekend. This helps our air
quality...we had a Code Yellow today (moderate)

TROPICAL: Way far away in the Eastern Atlantic, things look more
interesting. A strong tropical wave was moving west from about 600 miles WSW
of the Cape Verde Islands. It is moving into a more friendly neighborhood
and will likely become a tropical depression tonight. That super typhoon in
the Western Pacific, named Chaba, weakened a bit but was still sporting
sustained winds of 160 mph with gusts to near 200. It will curve more
northward into the southern Islands of Japan Sunday morning but should be
barely hurricane force at that time. I wish we had double the space for this
today so we could look back on Hurricane Andrew that brought a disaster to
South Florida on this date in 1992. The National Hurricane Center at Coral
Gables clocked winds to 164 mph at their office. The Category 4 Andrew was
changed to a Category 5 last year after a closer look at everything.

TUESDAY TIDBITS: Possibly the biggest drenching of the summer came to
Mississippi State University yesterday with 2.41 inches of rain...USA cool
spot this morning, Stanley, Idaho, 28, hottest yesterday Gila Bend Ariz.,
and Wink, Tex., with 104.

DID YOU KNOW? That Cairo, that big city in Northern Egypt (population 9.5
million) gets an average of only one inch of rain per year. Birmingham gets
54 times that much. Contrasting sharply, is one of the wettest spots on
earth, Llora, Columbia where it's 524 inches a year!

MY TINY CORNER OF THE WORLD: Little Miss Molly decided she wanted to walk
the lower walking track this morning. She rang the bell like it was a dinner
bell on the farm. I came running because it sounded so urgent. Turned out
that she wanted to play soccer before going out. I obeyed. There is so much
more to distract her on the lower track because the backyards come right
down to the track as compared to wide open areas on the upper track. Never
know what will happen. Someone had wrapped the base of a small tree with a
piece of metal with holes in it. It spooked the brave little one. I let her
sneak up on it 5 times and then she would jump backwards. She finally moved
on. She tried to gobble up a tiny piece of glass and I pulled her back at
the last minute. Don't I lead a very exciting life? It goes on and on and
on.

J. B. Elliott
jbelliott@charter.net

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TONIGHT
Scattered showers and thunderstorms mostly through the evening. Patchy fog
forming late.
Morning Low 70
WIND: Light SE

WEDNESDAY
Variable cloudiness with a good chance of showers and thunderstorms
especially in the afternoon.
Morning Low 70 Afternoon High 86
WIND: S 5-10

THURSDAY
Intervals of sunshine. Scattered mostly afternoon thunderstorms.
Morning Low 71 Afternoon High 87
WIND: SE 4-8

FRIDAY
Scattered showers and thunderstorms-a better chance in the afternoon.
Morning Low 72 Afternoon High 87
WIND: S 6-12

SATURDAY
Warm and muggy. Scattered showers and thunderstorms.
Morning Low 71 Afternoon High 88
WIND: SE 5-10

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