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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Afternoon Edition For Friday December 31, 2004
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AS WE CLOSE OUT 2004: I guess weather persons are like everybody
else. On New Year's Eve we like to reminisce a bit about what happened
during the past year and what will happen next year. We have no idea if we
will have another active hurricane season in 2005 or if we'll have a
crippling drought or excessive rainfall or even a crippling heat wave. We
have been lucky to avoid excessive heat waves the last few years. Bill
Murray has covered the most important stories of the past year and, of
course, Hurricane Ivan sticks out like a sore thumb.

Back to the present...our unseasonably warmth will continue well
into next week. It may start turning a little colder by next Thursday and
Friday. Meanwhile, we will deal with patchy morning fog, above normal
cloudiness and a chance of showers off and on. See our day-by-day forecast
and you will note that we don't expect too many of those. We think by early
next week our high temperature could reach the 70-degree mark which would be
about 18 degrees above normal.

THE GREAT NEW YEAR'S SNOWSTORM: We must look back on December 31,
1963 when almost every part of Alabama from Troy northwestward got covered
by snow. It became known as the New Year's Eve snowstorm. Many persons who
went to New Year's Eve parties became stranded there. The official snowfall
at Birmingham Airport was 8 inches, but on the higher ridges around town
there were 14-inch measurements. The most snow, 19.2 inches, fell at
Florence in extreme NW Alabama. That was a new record for the state up until
that time surpassing an 18-inch snowfall at Moulton in Lawrence County on
February 13-18, 1960.

LOOKING IN THE ICEBOX: The lowest in the lower 48 was 4 below this
morning in Cut Bank, Montana. That town is located on U.S. Rte 2 east of
Glacier National Park, but still out on the Plains. It is where the Plains
meet the Rockies. Lewis and Clark camped there on July 21, 1806. If you
travel west of Cut Bank of U.S. 2, you will pass through such communities as
Gunsight and Sundance. How can you get more western than that?...the
mountains of Los Angeles and Ventura Counties in Southern California will
get 1 to 2 feet of new snow within the next 24 hours as a series of storms
batter the west. More flash flooding for the city of Los Angeles.

MY TINY CORNER OF THE WORLD: Little Miss Molly surely has the
world's greatest curiosity. Absolutely nothing gets by her. Despite playing
a lot with her yesterday, she got into "twubble" again late last night. She
got one of our semi-upscale decorative pillows, ripped the end open and
pulled out a big part of the stuffing. That cotton-looking material made the
master bedroom look like our famous New Year's Eve snowstorm...we have good
friends that own a big black lab, Rosie, who is even more gifted. She will
actually open Christmas packages and almost anything else. Life goes on.
Happy New Year!

J. B. Elliott
jbelliott@charter.net

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TONIGHT
Mild with patchy fog developing late.
Morning Low 52
WIND: Light SE

SATURDAY
Mostly cloudy and unseasonably warm.
Morning Low 52 Afternoon High 69
WIND: S 6-12

SUNDAY
Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers.
Morning Low 54 Afternoon High 68
WIND: S 7-14

MONDAY
Cloudy and continued warm with occasional showers.
Morning Low 56 Afternoon High 68
WIND: S 6-12

TUESDAY
Unseasonably warm with a slight chance of showers.
Morning Low 54 Afternoon High 70
WIND: S 6-12

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