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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Afternoon Edition For Thursday February 23, 2006
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Families can visit more than 70 camps from day, residential or specialty
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SEVERE WEATHER AWARENESS WEEK: The National Weather Service has
posted a lot of useful information this week about severe weather awareness.
Today their emphasis is about flash flooding. A lot of people lose their
lives every year because of that, but since it is usually one or two people
at a time, it does not make blazing headlines. The NWS came up with a
saying, "Turn around, don't drown." Don't ever drive into flood waters when
you have no idea of the depth or how fast the water is moving.

STORM ALERT 2006: It is tonight at the Gadsden Convention Center.
You still need to come early to get a good seat even though that place seats
a lot of people. It starts at 7:00. The entire 33/40 weather team will be
there. There is only one more stop after tonight and that is next Tuesday
night (not Thursday) in Northport.

NOW TO CURRENT WEATHER: Big drenching across North and Central
Alabama yesterday and last night. Numerous places got well over 1 inch of
rain and a lot received more than 2 inches. We list only a few locations
that got over 2 inches:

2.05 at Blountsville
2.15 at Bankhead Lock and Dam
2.67 at Dearmanville (east of Anniston)
2.46 at Hollins (Clay County)
2.09 in Pell City
2.46 in the Hueytown/Concord area
2.15 at Birmingham Airport
2.20 at Anniston Airport

By midday, only a few small patches of light rain were still around.
The stalled front, that just would not leave our area yesterday, drifted
south overnight and cooler air has spread all the way down the state. No
more 80-degree temperatures today like yesterday. (See our day by day
forecast for more details.)

OUR NEXT RAIN: Looks like a good chance of rain Saturday possibly
starting after midnight Friday night. Part of South Alabama should get more
than an inch of rain. There also may be some thunderstorms roaming along the
Gulf Coast on Saturday. The rain should taper off late. Mostly sunshine
returns Sunday.

THURSDAY THOUGHTS: It blows my mind that Flagstaff, located in prime
snow country in the North Arizona mountains, has not even received a trace
of snow this month and less than 2 inches all winter. They should have had
about 69 inches by now. Ironically on this in date in 1987, Flagstaff was
buried with 31 inches...going south on I-17 into the desert, we find that
Phoenix is now in their 128th day with no rain. Absolutely incredible...on
this date in
1975, an F4 tornado hit a motel on the east side of Tuscaloosa shearing off
most of the upper floor and a housekeeper was killed.

MY TINY CORNER OF THE WORLD: Spring is springing (or should I say,
Spring has sprung?) in my tiny corner of the world. It even sounded like
spring when Little Miss Molly and I walked this morning. All kinds of birds
were singing, including at least five of our old crow friends...nice
swooshing sound as we passed the Old Crow Creek as the water was cascading
down from the other side of the hedgerow...even the Old Crow Motel is
budding, but it still looks discombobulated with limbs pointing in all
directions and almost all of the limbs on the north side...record number of
ballgames with Molly. All she does is up the ante for more. She is going to
wear me down. Woe is me but life goes on and I would not change it for
anything.

J. B. Elliott
jbelliott@charter.net

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TONIGHT
Fair and colder.
Morning Low 35
WIND: Light NE

FRIDAY
Partly sunny. A mild afternoon.
Morning Low 35 Afternoon High 65
WIND: E 6-12

SATURDAY
Mostly cloudy with a good chance of rain.
Morning Low 41 Afternoon High 56
WIND: N 8-16

SUNDAY
Mostly sunny, breezy and cooler.
Morning Low 33 Afternoon High 53
WIND: N 10-16

MONDAY
Partly sunny.
Morning Low 30 Afternoon High 57
WIND: S 5-10

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