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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Afternoon Edition For Wednesday August 31, 2005
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I want to start off with a few personal thoughts on this pleasant Wednesday
afternoon. The pleasant part is the weather here in Alabama, but my thoughts
are along the Gulf Coast where a tragedy of unbelievable proportions
continues to unfold. The mayor of New Orleans now believes that fatalities
may number in the thousands. I sit here and watch all the TV pictures and it
makes me wish I could help. It is good to hear that the Birmingham Fire
Department and the Hoover Fire Department are sending heavy rescue teams to
Gulfport. They departed today. My son, Steve, is a fireman with Birmingham
Station One downtown. He is a part of that team. There are numerous other
firemen going from the two departments. They will work in teams around the
clock under the direction of FEMA focusing on rescue and recovery of people
possibly buried.

BACK TO ALABAMA WEATHER: While there will be a few scattered showers and
storms along the coast, the weather across Central and North Alabama is
going to be very welcome for probably a week. Eventually a high pressure
area will build down over the Appalachians and NE and send some slightly
cooler and drier air westward into Alabama. We will start feeling some of
that tonight as temperatures drop into the mid 60s. By the weekend, our
highs shall retreat to the upper 80s. It is not often that we can word the
forecast exactly the same for so many days. For the next five days, simply
two words, "mostly sunny."

TROPICAL WEATHER: Who would have thought that Saranac Lake in far north New
York State would get more rain from Katrina than Birmingham? Heavy rain has
been falling there today. Katrina is no longer a tropical storm or even a
tropical depression. She is an ordinary low pressure area, but still
stubbornly causing problems over a wide area. She was centered over northern
New York and moving rapidly NE. It is windy over a broad area because of
her. Even atop Mt. Washington, New Hampshire, SE winds were gusting well
over 60 mph. Along the way, Katrina dumped 16.33 inches of rain at Perrine,
Florida, 14.82 at Big Branch, Louisiana, 9.82 at Hancock, Mississippi, 6.44
at Red Bay, Alabama and 5.84 at Lima, Ohio.

Meanwhile, old tropical depression 13 that had fizzled, has reformed into a
depression 890 miles ESE of Bermuda. Movement should be north-no threat to
land.

FINAL NOTES: I have been prowling this morning. I even visited far north
Canada mentally and found 17 degrees at Alert, the northernmost weather
station in North America. It is getting colder over Northern Canada-another
sign of the season...it was 25 this morning in Stanley, Idaho and in
Yellowstone Park.

MY TINY CORNER OF THE WORLD: Wish you could see Little Miss Molly get out
of bed every morning. She is a whole lot like me. She can wake up in a
perfectly good mood. Some people take an hour or two to get going, but she
is ready on the spot. First thing she does is moan and stretch a couple of
times and then that tail starts wagging like an airplane propeller. She then
checks out every square foot of our house, looks out every window and sniffs
at the door to see if anybody is passing. She is immediately ready for a
ballgame, but minutes later she will ring that tiny bell vigorously needing
to go outside. It is amazing how simple life is for Molly. After each walk,
she is just as elated to get a little treat as a human kid on the way to the
beach. I even get excited walking the same track with her day after day.
Life goes on, easier with Molly around.

J. B. Elliott
jbelliott@charter.net

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TONIGHT
Mostly clear and a little cooler.
Morning Low 66
WIND: Light

THURSDAY
Mostly sunny and less humid.
Morning Low 66 Afternoon High 90
WIND: N 5-10

FRIDAY
Mostly sunny.
Morning Low 66 Afternoon High 91
WIND: N 5-10

SATURDAY
Mostly sunny.
Morning Low 68 Afternoon High 89
WIND: NE 6-12

SUNDAY
Mostly sunny.
Morning Low 65 Afternoon High 88
WIND: NE 6-12

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