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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Afternoon Edition For Tuesday April 12, 2005 ==================================================================
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FRESH AIR ROLLING IN: Much drier and cooler air is overspreading Alabama from west to east. At midday, dew points were about 20 degrees lower on the western border than they were in East Alabama. This dry slot was bringing some sunshine this afternoon. However, clouds will move back in tonight as cooler air pushes down from the NW. By morning, temperatures will be close to 50some 10 degrees cooler than last night.
Tomorrow we have sort of a tricky situation. A low pressure area, both at the surface and aloft, will be moving ESE and passing near the Tennessee-Alabama border. Because of that upper low, temperatures are considerably colder aloft. This will make the atmosphere just unstable enough to set off some showers and possibly even a thunderstorm Wednesday.
BEYOND TOMORROW: Delightful weather on the horizon with dry conditions through early next week. This includes a mostly sunny weekend. Nights will be crisp and cool, afternoons will be mild and mostly in the 70s over the weekend. Highs tomorrow and Thursday will be in the cooler mid 60s.
GRAVITY WAVE: It is a rare and difficult to understand weather event and almost impossible to forecast. We had one last night. The pressure started falling rapidly and the wind increased suddenly even without thunderstorms involved. There was a gust to 40 mph at Birmingham Airport just before 1:00 a.m. and gusts to 48 on Red Mountain and also at the Mercedes Plant at Vance. Later the pressure started rising rapidly again. Over in East Alabama, there was a good bit of debris blown about by the wind in Calhoun County. No thunderstorms around. These gravity waves are caused in several ways. One of them is changes in the jet stream that send out ripples or waves. Often it is after a widespread rain area moves away. On February 22, 1998, a powerful low pressure area aloft was near Alabama. It unexpectedly set off ripples that caused a gravity wave to move all the way across Alabama in only three hours from south to north. At Birmingham Airport, the surface pressure dropped 10 millibars in just 17 minutes. The corresponding difference in pressure brought wind gusts to 51 mph. A lot of trees came down and there was roof damage in the area. Still no thunderstorm anywhere.
TUESDAY NOTES: It was on this date in 1943 that two-thirds of Hackleburg in NW Alabama was destroyed by an F4 tornado at 1:30 in the morning. Residents reported being awakened by an unscheduled freight train....on this date in 1945, it was a huge news day in the USA. Antlers, Oklahoma was almost wiped off the map by a massive F5 tornado which killed 69 people. However, the disaster was overshadowed by the death of President Franklin Roosevelt.
MY TINY CORNER OF THE WORLD: Please tell me it wasnt true. Please tell me it wasnt a mosquito. On my early morning walk with little Miss Molly, some type of varmint crashed into my forehead. My reaction was immediate and his funeral was right away. I couldnt tell if it was a gnat or a mosquito. Please tell me I dont need to start wearing a sheet of Bounce in my belt loop already...little Miss Molly has become apprehensive when walking the upper track. There is a very friendly new dog three times her size that is itching to get to know her better and to play. She misinterprets that. Now she has started voluntarily turning around and headed back home even when the dog is not around. Life goes on. Little puppies have a lot of fear and doubt in their lives, but Miss Molly always looks up to me for protection. That makes me feel good. Life goes on.
J. B. Elliott
jbelliott@charter.net
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TONIGHT
Clouds increase. Breezy and turning cooler.
Morning Low 50
WIND: S 6-12
WEDNESDAY
Mostly cloudy, breezy and cooler with a chance of showers and possibly a thunderstorm.
Morning Low 50 Afternoon High 64
WIND: NW 10-18
THURSDAY
Partly sunny.
Morning Low 48 Afternoon High 66
WIND: N 6-12
FRIDAY
Mostly sunny. A cool early morning.
Morning Low 44 Afternoon High 71
WIND: NE 6-12
SATURDAY
Mostly sunny and pleasant.
Morning Low 48 Afternoon High 75
WIND: SE 5-10
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