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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Afternoon Edition For Friday December 10, 2004
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A BUSY WEATHER MAP: As we look out all across the great North American
landscape (well, let's say weatherscape), we detect some weather changes
underway. We invite you to look closely at our day-by-day forecast. In a
nutshell, you will find a break from frequent big rain events and a trend
toward colder weather and even a hard freeze. We had a situation today where
much colder air moved in aloft making the atmosphere unstable and a bit
angry. Even the clouds looked angry this afternoon. A thunderstorm formed
near Huntsville and produced hail large enough to trigger severe
thunderstorm warnings for Madison and Jackson Counties.

The wind will not die down much tonight, so it's going to feel cold. We will
probably have some intermittent light rain overnight and even a few
sprinkles Saturday morning. Saturday is going to be a rather raw day with
highs only in the mid 40s and NW winds averaging 10-20 mph. Our main influx
of colder air will be Tuesday and Tuesday night. By daybreak Wednesday, low
temperatures in Central Alabama will probably be in the mid 20s-some places
as cold as 22-24.

FOOTBALL WEATHER: For tonight's 4A Championship Game between Demopolis and
Deshler, it will be breezy and cold with temperatures in the 40s. You will
need to dress warm. For the SWAC Championship Game between Alabama State and
Southern University at Legion Field Saturday afternoon, breezy and cold with
game time temperatures in the mid 40s with NW winds 10-20 mph.

FRIDAY WRAP UP: Muscle Shoals, in the NW corner of Alabama, has now
received almost 70 inches of rain this year-an excess of 18 inches...one of
the ABC 33/40 weather watchers, Danny Hill in Helena, was disappointed when
his chest freezer went kerplunk and his treasured souvenir snowball from the
Blizzard of '93 melted...a nice story on TV last night about Alston Keith,
the ABC 33/40 weather watcher from Inverness...really enjoyed a trip to
Cullman Wednesday to see longtime friend Jim McCravy being presented with
the Thomas Jefferson Award-a very rare honor. James Spann has a nice story
about that on today's 33/40 weather blog...I plead not guilty to the last
paragraph of that story...49 inches of new snow in the last three days at
Sundance in the North Utah mountains and 33 inches at Tony Grove Lake (one
of our favorite camping spots)...summer-like heat in South Texas with 90 in
Laredo...coldest this morning was 8 at Doylesville, Colorado...sometimes in
winter a huge mass of cold air will cross the North Pole and head south.
That is when Alabama can have some of its coldest weather...it was 57 below
zero at Ojmjakon, Siberia today and they will have 63 below over the
weekend. We're not saying that will head toward us right away.

MY TINY CORNER OF THE WORLD: Little Miss Molly would not even speak to me
when she crawled out of bed this morning. She may be giving me the cold
shoulder because I did not have a vigorous late night play session with her.
As soon as we hit the walking trail, she was friendly again. Molly and I
have become a fixture around the community. I'm sure the neighbors say,
"Well, there goes Molly and Mr. Pooper-Scooper." I always have that little
blue scoop in my hand, not only to clean up after Molly, but to do courtesy
scoops where other dogs have passed by. Some of the scooping I did this
morning made me think an elephant had been through the community. Life goes
on, despite the size of the scoops.

J. B. Elliott
jbelliott@charter.net

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TONIGHT
Mostly cloudy, breezy and colder. A slight chance of light rain.
Morning Low 38
WIND: NW 10-18

SATURDAY
Morning sprinkles, but clearing late. Breezy and cold.
Morning Low 38 Afternoon High 46
WIND: NW 10-20

SUNDAY
More sun than clouds.
Morning Low 33 Afternoon High 54
WIND: SW 6-12

MONDAY
Partly sunny and breezy. Turning colder Monday night.
Morning Low 40 Afternoon High 52
WIND: NW 12-18

TUESDAY
Breezy and cold. A hard freeze Tuesday night.
Morning Low 30 Afternoon High 46
WIND: NW 10-18

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