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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Afternoon Edition For Sunday April 9, 2006
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LEBANESE FOOD AND CULTURAL FESTIVAL
Saint Elias Maronite Catholic Church

April 21-22, 2006 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Located at 836 8th Street South
Near the corner of University Boulevard and 8th Street South

Get Homemade Lebanese Food Lunch and Dinner April 21-22 Easy Friday Lunch.
Fast Service in/out in minutes -- Take out or dine in. For really fast
service come early or late. We serve food the whole day. You can also have
food delivered to your place of business for Friday lunch. Click on our
website below for details.

Baked Kibbee, spinach pies, rolled grape leaves, fresh grilled lemon
chicken, loobia (spiced green beans), and sweets galore.
Have you ever tried Lebanese ice cream or the traditional baklawa?
It is worth the calories. All this and more will be available. Visit the
a-la-carte station - inside only - Meat Pies, Spinach Pies, Grape Leaves,
Tabouleh, and Homus. Stock up.

Take a tour of the church, visit our heritage room and learn more about the
language of Aramaic spoken at our liturgy. See scenes of Lebanon in our
main hall.
Silent Auction and Live Band from New York, back by popular demand each
evening.

All this and there is No Admission Charge. 25% of all proceeds go to
charities other than St. Elias Church.

FOR MORE INFO AND A COMPLETE MENU VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT:
http://www.stelias.org/festival_2006.html
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GOOD AFTERNOON! It is nice to not be talking about severe weather in our
afternoon edition today. Weather across the country is quiet for the most
part. The only exception is South Florida, where our cold front is edging
into some rather unstable air. Storms could become severe there this
afternoon, with the main threat coming from high winds and large hail.

CLOSER TO HOME: The only thing severe in our forecast are the clear skies.
J.B. likes to call it a good case of "severe clear." Just step outside and
you will see what we are talking about. Skies are about as blue as you will
ever see here in Alabama. Mostly clear skies will be with us through
Tuesday, it appears.

Advection of cool air into Alabama is keeping a bright Spring sun in check
this afternoon. Temperatures will remain in the 60s in most locations, I
believe.

Tonight, lows should be in the forties for the most part. Might see a
couple of 30s, but 40s should be the norm. Under mostly sunny skies
tomorrow, afternoon readings will climb to around 73-74 degrees on average,
and highs on Tuesday will be a couple of degrees warmer than that as our
winds become more southeasterly.

A weakening cold front will try to edge into the area Wednesday, but the
main effect will be increased clouds. Showers should stay to our north.
Thursday will see that boundary hung up to our north, and while we can't
rule out the chance of a shower on Thursday, they again will likely stay
north of us here in Central Alabama.

NEXT WEEKEND: High pressure will be over the western Atlantic, keeping a
protective shield over us here in Alabama. A deep low pressure system is
expected to be over the northern Plains states. It will try to send a cold
front our way, but it won't stand a chance of getting here. It looks like
that there will be no significant precipitation through much of Easter
Sunday if this pattern holds.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: A special happy birthday today to hook echoes. On this
date in 1953, Glenn Stout, a technician at the Illinois State Water Survey
in Champagne, IL was testing a rebuilt weather radar unit. As Stout and his
associates studied the thunderstorm, they noticed that its radar echo had
taken on an unusual shape. It appeared to develop a tail, that resembled a
hook.

They would learn later that at the time the "hook echo" developed, the
thunderstorm was producing a tornado. Later analysis of the film taken
during the test revealed that the hook shaped echo was closely associated
with the tornado. . It was hypothesized that the hook was associated with
the tornado that the thunderstorm produced. Analysis of radar film from a
the tornado that devastated Waco, Texas and the deadly Worcester,
Massachusetts tornado all indicated the same hook formation. It became
apparent that tornadoes did display a unique echo and that communities could
be warned when the echo appeared. Radar indications of hook echoes would
become one of the most important tools of meteorologists in issuing tornado
warnings with the WSR-57 radar network. We still use the technique today..

Bill Murray

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TONIGHT
Clear and comfortably cool.
Morning Low 41
WIND: Light

MONDAY
Sunny skies.
Morning Low 41 Afternoon High 73
WIND: SE 6-12

TUESDAY
Continued sunny.
Morning Low 44 Afternoon High 76
WIND: SE 6-12

WEDNESDAY
Becoming partly cloudy. A slight chance of a shower.
Morning Low 53 Afternoon High 76
WIND: S 5-10

THURSDAY
Partly cloudy. A small chance of a shower.
Morning Low 55 Afternoon High 80
WIND: W/NW 5-10

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