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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Afternoon Edition For Wednesday August 24, 2005
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SHOWERS THINNING OUT: We may still get some widely scattered showers or
thunderstorms later this afternoon and this evening, but for a change most
of them will be east and south of Birmingham. By midday scattered ones were
already in progress over East-Central Alabama and extending southward. The
storms yesterday dumped over 2 inches of rain over Inverness in North Shelby
County and almost that much in nearby Greystone Cove.

You can look at our day-by-day forecast for all of the details, but we
expect showers to be scarce at least through Saturday as slightly drier air
comes in from the east-a modified version of the old wedge effect. Our high
temperatures will also be more tolerable than in recent days.

FOCUSING ON THE TROPICS: That is where our attention will be heavily
concentrated for the next several days and you can blame that on a lady
named Katrina. This afternoon she was growing stronger over the Central
Bahamas and was located about 30 miles ENE of Nassau in the Bahamas or some
200 miles ESE of the SE coast of Florida. Winds had increased to 45 mph and
she could reach hurricane force before making landfall on the SE coast of
Florida. That is the official National Hurricane Center track forecast to
bring it across South Florida emerging into the SE Gulf and then heading NW.
By Monday morning, she is expected to regain hurricane force and be centered
over the North Gulf south of the NW Florida Coast. At this point, we must
interject a big dose of caution because that is still five days away. We
will be able to get a much better handle later.

One thing for sure, there is plenty of warm water in the Gulf. Hurricanes
thrive on 85 degree water temperatures, but in the Gulf they now range
between 87 and 90!

It is ironic that a Hurricane Watch and Tropical Storm Warning is now in
effect for the SE Florida coast from Vero Beach southward to Florida City,
because on this same date in 1992, super powerful Andrew had made landfall
in Southern Dade County near Homestead as a Category 5 hurricane.

WAR ZONE WEATHER: It is certainly hot this time of year in most of Iraq and
part of Afghanistan. A high of 118 was expected today in Baghdad with highs
of 110-114 for the rest of the week. In Basrah, highs are expected to be 118
to 120. Most of these temperatures will occur with the humidity less than
10%. While we are talking temperatures, contrasting sharply to that, it was
104 below zero today at Vostok, Antarctica where they are in late
winter...in the USA, lows included 32 at Meacham, Oregon, 35 at Barrow,
Alaska and 49 atop Mt. LeConte in the Great Smoky Mountains.

NOTABLE RAINFALL: Yesterday, 2.96 in Atlanta; 3.11 in Brawley Wash near
Tucson; over 2 inches at Inverness in North Shelby County; and 4 inches at
Yakutat, Alaska. Numerous streets were closed in Tucson yesterday with major
flooding.

MY TINY CORNER OF THE WORLD: Little Miss Molly getting a lot of long naps
today. I completely wore her out yesterday, because it was her birthday.
Many thanks for all of the greetings for Molly. I will acknowledge them all
a bit later. We played so much yesterday that we had the unusual occurrence
of Molly begging for rest, because she was so pooped. I have never seen her
do that before. Some of our ballgames and wrestling sessions lasted over 30
minutes. When we went to bed last night, she was worn out, but she snuggled
and sure had an appreciative look on her face. Afraid I have raised the bar
even higher.

J. B. Elliott
jbelliott@charter.net

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TONIGHT
Widely scattered evening thunderstorms, mostly south of Birmingham.
Morning Low 73
WIND: Light E

THURSDAY
Partly sunny. Widely scattered, mostly afternoon, thunderstorms.
Morning Low 73 Afternoon High 91
WIND: E 5-10

FRIDAY
Morning clouds, then mostly sunshine. Few, if any, showers.
Morning Low 69 Afternoon High 90
WIND: E 5-10

SATURDAY
More sunshine than clouds.
Morning Low 69 Afternoon High 90
WIND: E 6-12

SUNDAY
Partly sunny. Only a slight chance of an afternoon thunderstorm.
Morning Low 70 Afternoon High 91
WIND: SE 6-12

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