ABC 33/40 E-Forecast

ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Afternoon Edition For Friday September 17, 2004
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A PLEASANT GOODBYE TO IVAN: He was a monster. He trashed most of the state.
He literally took a path all the way across the state from the SW corner
east of Mobile to the NE corner. His remnants were centered along the
Tennessee-North Carolina border this afternoon. There are some indications
that the center will stall and possibly work its way back down toward us. If
it does, he will bring us a chance of showers Monday, but no comparison to
what we had yesterday. Another cold front will move through Monday morning
and bring us good weather again for Tuesday.

Meanwhile, this weekend looks like a textbook example of comfortable weather
with mostly sunshine, lower humidity and cooler nights. We expect
temperatures to be in the mid 50s when you wake up Sunday morning. We don't
see any unusually warm weather for the next five days with highs mostly in
the mid 80s.

FOOTBALL WEATHER: Ideal weather for tonight's high school games.
Temperatures by kick off will be around 75. For Saturday's college games in
the state: sunny dry weather, less humid with afternoon highs in the mid
80s.

TROPICAL WEATHER: Tropical Storm Jeanne should become a hurricane late
Saturday as she travels NW passing mostly north of the Bahamas. A ridge of
high pressure is expected to push down the Atlantic coast and turn her
inward. This means she could make landfall on the Atlantic coast of Florida
or the Georgia coast on Wednesday-possibly between Daytona and Savannah.

That forecast is tentative...a few more notes on Ivan. One of the highest
wind gusts that we noted was 78 mph in Greensboro. That was estimated, but
it may be close to accurate considering the damages. At Birmingham Airport,
the peak gust was 54 mph, but it was surely much higher on some of the
ridges around the city considering how many trees were uprooted. Flash
flooding became a problem in many areas and there was a number of water
rescues. Here is a short sample of some 24-hour rainfall amounts. We will
have more in coming days:

7.65 inches at Pell City
7.52 at Greystone Farms
8.04 at Trussville-Leeds
A retired NWS employee, Harold Quattlebaum, reported 8.60 inches at his home
in Hoover.

MY TINY CORNER OF THE WORLD: Never in my life have I been greeted so warmly
as I was by little Miss Molly when I got home last night. I had been down at
the ABC 33/40 studios doing almost continuous radio broadcasts since
Wednesday afternoon-36 hours without a wink of sleep. When I got home, Miss
Molly jumped up and down like a ping-pong ball as high as my chest wanting
me to hold her. She never let me out of her sight the rest of the evening.
She curled up as close to me as she could get when went to bed. But, she got
me up at 3:15 this morning wanting me to play and wanted to go for a walk.
It felt good to be out at an early hour with a stiff tropical breeze
blowing in our face. Life goes on, sleep or no sleep.

J. B. Elliott
jbelliott@charter.net

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TONIGHT
Mostly clear and cooler.
Morning Low 59
WIND: NW 4-7

SATURDAY
Sunny and pleasant. Less humid.
Morning Low 59 Afternoon High 84
WIND: N 8-16

SUNDAY
Sunny. A cool early morning.
Morning Low 56 Afternoon High 85
WIND: NE 6-12

MONDAY
Clouds increase with a chance of showers.
Morning Low 62 Afternoon High 79
WIND: E 10-15

TUESDAY
Partly sunny and breezy.
Morning Low 63 Afternoon High 83
WIND: E 10-18

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