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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Afternoon Edition For Tuesday May 3, 2005
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MORE TRANQUIL WEATHER: It can be awfully stormy in Alabama in May. In
Montgomery 21 years ago today, a powerful tornado killed 5 persons and
injured 37. We hardly expect any rain over the next week. A weak
disturbances speeding along in the upper atmosphere along with a weak
disturbance east of Alabama, could bring just a little scattered light rain
Thursday. After that back to mostly sunny dry weather all the way through
the weekend. A patch of light rain moved east across South Alabama today.

Most of it was evaporating in the dry air before reaching the ground.
It was chilly across the state again this morning. It was mostly in the 40s,
but as low as 39 in Pinson and Ft. Payne. Our temperatures are still running
about 10 degrees cooler than normal for the first week of May, but look for
milder temperatures by the weekend with near 80 by Saturday.

NEW BIRMINGHAM WEATHER CHIEF: Jim Stefkovich will go on duty tomorrow at
the National Weather Service Forecast Office at Shelby County Airport as
Birmingham's new Meteorologist in Charge. He comes from a similar position
with the NWS in Chicago, but he has a long track record of experiencing SE
USA weather. He replaces Ken Graham who was promoted to the Southern Region
Headquarters in Ft. Worth. Lot more about this is posted on our 33/40
weather blog.

DISCONNECTED THOUGHTS: I thought it was interesting that there was a
200-degree difference in temperature overnight between Death Valley,
California and Vostok, Antarctica. It was 96 in Death Valley and a "chilly"
104 below zero at Vostok. Their wind chill was 132 below! Not a good day to
hang out the wash, have a picnic or walk the dog...coldest in the USA this
morning, 10 at Williston, North Dakota and Wolf Point out on the open windy
plains of NE Montana...Pensacola's amazing 44.54 inches of rain so far this
year contrasts sharply with only 15.03 inches at this time last
year...Sinbad the Sailor was killed by lightning at Kanab, Utah on this date
in 1982. If that name is not familiar, it was the name of President Reagan's
star TV horse in "Death Valley Days"...an amazing 4.7 inches of snow at
Amarillo in the Texas Panhandle yesterday bringing their season's total to
40 inches, 23 inches more than normal!

A FAMILY TRAGEDY: A violent tornado hit Sioux City, Iowa on May 3, 1895,
wiping out two schools several miles apart killing teachers and students. A
teacher killed in the first school was a brother of a teacher killed in the
second school.

MY TINY CORNER OF THE WORLD: Up automatically at 5:30 a.m.-I don't set a
clock. I tippy-toed, but little Miss Molly saw me, stood up in bed,
stretched, yawned and moaned and 45 seconds later was assembling toys
expecting me to play... I begged for a few drops of coffee, but it was not
to be. We took off on a half-mile walk. An old crow was sitting high up in
the Old Crow Motel silhouetted by a wanna-be sunrise and I'm almost positive
he was yawning. The sun ball was also yawning and stretching wanting to come
up. It sure did make a deck of high cirrus clouds look beautiful. Halfway up
the walk, Molly stopped suddenly like she had treed a bird. It puzzled me,
but all of a sudden that big, black neighborhood dog came rushing out of the
underbrush and dived at Molly wanting to play. Molly was literally climbing
up my leg for protection. I grabbed her and carried her all the way back
home nestled in my arms. She sure did appreciate it. Life goes on often
through scary times.

J. B. Elliott
jbelliott@charter.net

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TONIGHT
Fair and cool.
Morning Low 44
WIND: Light

WEDNESDAY
Partly sunny. Temperatures still about 10 degrees below normal.
Morning Low 44 Afternoon High 69
WIND: NE 6-12

THURSDAY
Clouds increase. A slight chance of light rain.
Morning Low 49 Afternoon High 70
WIND: E 5-10

FRIDAY
Becoming mostly sunny. A milder afternoon.
Morning Low 52 Afternoon High 76
WIND: E 6-12

SATURDAY
Mostly sunny.
Morning Low 54 Afternoon High 79
WIND: SE 6-12

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