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Monday, May 23, 2005

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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
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ANOTHER DECENT COOL DOWN: You won’t exactly need your sweater, but nighttime temperatures are going to be very comfortable for most of this week. Thanks to some drier and slightly cooler air spreading into Central Alabama tonight, lows by morning will be near 60 with some upper 50s in the valleys. Wednesday morning lows will be in the lower 50s and we could hear of temperatures as low as 48 in places like Bridgeport, Valley Head and Hamilton. Daytime highs won’t be bad. We expect 80 to 83 for the rest of the week.

WE DO NEED RAIN: We had hopes of some beneficial rain with this cold front. A big family of thunderstorms moved across Oklahoma and Arkansas overnight, but they fizzled out this morning over Arkansas. An outflow boundary from those could set off some showers and storms this afternoon, but we think most of them will be south of Birmingham. In fact, the Storm Prediction Center placed South Alabama under a slight risk of severe weather this afternoon and this evening roughly from Demopolis, Montgomery and Auburn southward.

THE REST OF THE WEEK: Still another cold front will arrive Thursday night or Friday morning. This could bring some widely scattered showers and storms. We introduced a few for the Friday forecast, but most of those again will be south of the Birmingham area.

BLISTERING HEAT: The thermometer should sizzle out around 114 degrees this afternoon at Furnace Creek and Stovepipe Wells in Death Valley—very appropriate names. Las Vegas was expecting 106 and Phoenix 104 to 109. This is record or near record heat for late May. Let’s join all those folks in hoping that this is not a bad omen for the coming summer...on the bottom side of the thermometer, it was a chilly 27 this morning at McCall, Idaho...those big storms had mostly wimped out by the time they got into Arkansas, but overnight there were a number or reports of wind damage in Oklahoma, although no widespread significant damage...Eastern Colorado is a hail prone part of the country. A big storm on this date in 1991 produced so much golf ball-sized hail that 8,000 cars and 5,000 homes were damaged in the Denver Metro Area. The hail accumulated one-half foot deep in suburban Aurora!

MY TINY CORNER OF THE WORLD: Played a lot with little Miss Molly over the weekend and because of that she has followed me more closely than ever. I don’t mind. The honeysuckle are ablaze in our tiny corner and when you step outside at night or early in the morning you think you’re in a perfume factory. So what does little Miss Molly do? Being the city inspector, she wants to sniff every single blossom. She even stands on her hind legs and tries to sniff blossoms above her head. I finally get impatient and tug her along...this morning we ran into that same overweight gnat at the upper end of the walking track. I recognized him and I have named him Charlie. I swung widely with my little blue scoop, but missed again. He is a marked varmint. Surely, my little blue pooper scoop will wind up in a hall of fame or a museum like Billy The Kid’s 6-shooters one of these days. It will have notches. Life goes on.

J. B. Elliott
jbelliott@charter.net

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TONIGHT
A slight chance of a shower or thunderstorm early, then clearing.
Morning Low 61
WIND: NW 4-6

TUESDAY
Mostly sunny and less humid.
Morning Low 61 Afternoon High 81
WIND: N 10-16

WEDNESDAY
Sunny. A cool morning.
Morning Low 52 Afternoon High 80
WIND: N 6-12

THURSDAY
Partly sunny.
Morning Low 57 Afternoon High 83
WIND: S 4-8

FRIDAY
Partly sunny. A slight chance of a shower or a thunderstorm, mostly south of Birmingham.
Morning Low 60 Afternoon High 82
WIND: NW 6-12

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