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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Afternoon Edition For Sunday June 19, 2005
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HAPPY FATHER'S DAY: It is another beautiful late Spring day out there
across Alabama. Summer will officially begin at 1:46 a.m. CDT early
Tuesday morning. It will feel like summer in Alabama as we head into the
latter part of the week and temperatures edge into the 90s.

ON THE WEATHER MAPS: At the surface, we find a large anticyclone centered
over southeastern Canada. This high pressure area ridges all the way to
the Texas Gulf Coast. A dying stationary front is located over the northern
Gulf. A complex series of low pressure centers extends from eastern
Colorado south into Old Mexico. A cold front is over the northern Plains.
Lastly, a tropical wave is crossing into the southern Gulf of Mexico from
the Caribbean. In the upper levels of the atmosphere, we find a wild roller
coaster ride of a pattern, with a huge trough over the East Coast, a ridge
that extends from Texas to Minnesota and another bookend trough over the
West Coast. The models keep the upper trough just to our east through
midweek, before the ridge over the middle section of the country relocates
over us.

OUR FORECAST: Fair, calm and comfortable conditions are coming up overnight
tonight. Monday promises to be a lot like today, and Tuesday promises to be
a lot like Monday: good deal of sunshine, highs in the mid 80s and slowly
increasing humidity levels. Rain chances will be nearly nil, again on
Monday and Tuesday, but we have to keep mentioning a slight chance of
showers or storms, especially over eastern sections. The wild card in the
forecast is a tropical style low that the GFS tries to develop over the Gulf
and move northeast across Florida. If you buy this idea, we will be on the
backside of the low and have northerly winds in its wake, and even fewer
showers Tuesday and Wednesday. Another possibility is high pressure sliding
southward from the Ohio Valley to the Carolinas, giving us a return
southerly flow and reintroducing our summer staple: widely scattered
afternoon and evening showers and storms.

ON THIS DATE IN 1972: Hurricane Agnes moved ashore in the Florida panhandle
as a weak Category 1 storm. The highest wind reported on the Gulf Coast
was a gust to just 56 mph at Apalachicola, Florida. The $10 million in
damage in the Florida Panhandle was just a drop in the bucket. Agnes' main
damage would come two days later as the remnants of the storm brought
tremendous rains and flooding to parts of the Northeast.

Richmond, VA was hard hit. On June 22, Agnes' torrential rains deluged
parts of Pennsylvania. The state capital of Harrisburg was inundated and
the governor's mansion flooded. Nineteen inches of rain deluged
Wilkes-Baare PA, forcing the Susquehanna River over its thirty eight foot
high dikes.
Hurricane Agnes' five-day romp through the Atlantic seaboard made the storm
the costliest natural disaster in the United States at that time. Damage was
estimated at $3.5 billion and 134 deaths were reported from Florida to New
York. Agnes would produce more damage than all tropical cyclones in the
previous six years, including Camille.

Bill Murray
bill@integralhospitality.com

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TONIGHT
Fair and comfortable.
Overnight Low 64
WIND: Light NE

MONDAY
Partly cloudy. A tiny chance of a shower.
Morning Low 64 Afternoon High 86
WIND: NE 4-8

TUESDAY
Partly cloudy with a small chance of a shower or storm.
Morning Low 65 Afternoon High 88
WIND: NE 5-10

WEDNESDAY
Partly cloudy with isolated showers and storms.
Morning Low 67 Afternoon High 91
WIND: NE 6-12

THURSDAY
Partly cloudy with a slight chance of a shower or storm.
Morning Low 69 Afternoon High 92
WIND: N 5-10

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GIRLS VOLLEYBALL CAMP
4th Grade through 8th Grade
June 27-29 8:30am to 12:00 noon
Spain Park High School in Hoover

Here's a great way for young girls to learn the basics of volleyball:
passing, setting, hitting and serving. All girls will receive excellent
instruction and participate in games each day of the camp.

The camp is run by Spain Park Varsity Coach Laura Burke who played four
years of volleyball at UAB. All campers get a special T-shirt and
certificate of participation.

Just $90. Contact Coach Burke at 439-1400 ext. 7721
or by e-mail at lburke@hoover.k12.al.us
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