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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Afternoon Edition For Saturday April 15, 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: Our fine stretch of Spring weather continues this weekend
with warm temperature, sunny skies and dry conditions. Things will change
as we head into next week, but for now, let's enjoy it.

SUNNY SATURDAY: An upper low is over southwestern Colorado this morning,
but ahead of it, a large ridge of high pressure is centered over the
Mississippi Valley. This ridge is responsible for our current spate of nice
weather. Skies will be mostly sunny today with temperatures warming into
the middle and upper 80s. Moisture levels will continue a gradual increase
tonight and Sunday. This could lead to an increase in low clouds late
tonight into Sunday morning.

ANOTHER WARM ONE: But those clouds should but off quickly tomorrow morning,
giving way to a partly cloudy day. Temperatures tomorrow afternoon will
again average out in the middle to upper 80s. With increased moisture
levels in place, you have to start thinking about convection, but it appears
that storm development will be held in check by warm temperatures aloft. It
will be quite breezy tomorrow, however, and a lake wind advisory will be
likely. So anyone taking advantage of the nice weather to go boating will
want to be careful.

RECORD BIN: We actually are close to record readings right here in Alabama
It looks like our best chance for record highs will come on Monday, when
some areas will flirt with 90 degrees. The record high in Birmingham for
April 17th is 90 degrees. Many record lows were set this morning across the
middle of the country, but not record cold readings. Rather, morning lows
were the warmest ever recorded for the date across a wide area. There were
also a few record highs thrown in for good measure on Friday, including
Greenville/Spartanburg, SC, which saw 86F.

THE WEEK AHEAD: We already talked about Monday, when partly cloudy skies
and warm conditions will prevail. We have been expecting an easterly wedge
to push into Alabama on Tuesday, but that is iffy at this time. If it does,
it will lead to a cool down and some precipitation. A storm system over the
northern Plains will push a cold front our way at midweek. This system will
give us a chance of showers and storms starting late Wednesday night.

ON THIS DATE IN 1956: Around 3 p.m., an F4 tornado touched down just west
of Wylam in western Jefferson County. The murderous tornado tore to the
northeast, passing along the western and northern fringes of the City of
Birmingham. The tornado plowed through McDonald's Chapel and the Stacey
Hollow area. One hundred homes were destroyed in these two communities. The
twister continued through West Ensley and Sandusky, destroying another fifty
homes.
Homes were destroyed in the New Georgia community near Lewisburg. The
tornado passed just north of Tarrant City and near Ketona, finally lifting
near Chalkville. The twister killed twenty five along its twenty mile path.
Most of the deaths occurred in the Stacey Hollow and McDonalds Chapel
communities. A total of four hundred homes and buildings were destroyed.

Bill Murray

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TONIGHT
Low clouds forming toward morning.
Morning Low 65
WIND: SW 6-12

SUNDAY
Cloudy start, but quickly becoming partly cloudy. Breezy. Very warm.
Morning Low 65 Afternoon High 88
WIND: SW 10-20

MONDAY
Partly cloudy and warm.
Morning Low 67 Afternoon High 89
WIND: W 6-12

TUESDAY
Partly cloudy. Cooler. A chance of a shower or storm.
Morning Low 63 Afternoon High 84
WIND: E 6-12

WEDNESDAY
Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and storms overnight.
Morning Low 59 Afternoon High 79
WIND: SE 6-12

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