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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Afternoon Edition For Monday April 24, 2006
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"Weekend to Remember" Marriage Conference Coming To Birmingham!

The annual "Weekend to Remember" conference sponsored by FamilyLife,
designed to strengthen and improve marriages, will be held in Birmingham at
the Marriott Hotel on Highway 280 on May 5 - 7

Topics include threats to marital oneness, God's plan and purpose for
marriage, developing communication skills, resolving conflict, expressing
forgiveness and achieving intimacy.

Registration is $109 per person or take advantage of the group rate of $79
per person for five or more couples. The Marriott offers a reduced rate of
$95 per night for room accommodations.

The conference offers a money-back guarantee! For more information, call
800-FL-TODAY or go to
http://www.familylife.com/conferences/show_conference.asp#Birmingham
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BACK TO THUNDER AND LIGHTNING: We had an overdose of that last
week, but we must face some more thunderstorms tomorrow and Wednesday.
Nothing at all going on tonight. It should be mostly fair with pleasant
temperatures. We think the best chance of showers and thunderstorms will
start later in the day tomorrow and extending through the night and for a
time Wednesday morning. The Storm Prediction Center has outlooked about the
NW half of Alabama for a Slight Risk of severe weather for Tuesday. As
always, we will watch that closely.

A cold front will follow the storminess and give us some very
pleasant weather and even some chilly nights Thursday and Friday. Indeed, we
are calling for low temperatures in the mid 40s across Central Alabama early
Thursday morning. Places like Hamilton, Valley Head and DeSoto State Park
should not have some low 40s. One of the cooler temperatures in the state
this morning was 48 in Hamilton and Rock Mills. Tonight's lows should be
mostly in the 60s.

LAST WEEK'S HAIL: If that wasn't an overdose of large hail, I don't
know what is. Can't remember that much hail in Alabama during such a short
timeframe. While the biggest hailstorms were in places like Blount and St.
Clair Counties, the largest size hailstone reported was apparently 4.25
inches in diameter (softball size) in the wee morning hours of Friday in
Walker County a few miles WNW of Jasper. No confirmed damage from that. It
may have fallen in an open area.

ROAMING ALL OVER: Had a delightful drive Saturday down into Hale
County where I grew up and, ah, yes, had to include Havana Junction. When I
was growing up there, there were two country stores and a cotton gin. All
three are closed now, but still a delight to go through there. Decoration
Day at our old family church in East Hale County known as
Springhill...again, I am convinced that Bibb County has the most trees per
square mile of any county in Alabama...at midday, Laramie, Wyoming was
reporting 25 degrees with heavy snow. Rock Springs had 29 degrees and 37 mph
winds...3.58 inches of rain at Bridgeport, Connecticut over the weekend...99
degrees at Wink, Texas was the Sunday hotspot in the USA...it was 20 this
morning in Cut Bank, Montana and 13 below in good old Deadhorse,
Alaska...yes, this is the prime severe weather season in the south. A big
outbreak on this date in 1908 when 18 tornadoes touched down from Louisiana
to Georgia. Hardest hit was Hattiesburg where 143 persons were killed.
Mississippi in all had 155 deaths. Most of Purvis, Mississippi was wiped
out...a tornado at Amite, Louisiana was reported as 2.5 miles wide...37
persons were killed in Alabama.

MY TINY CORNER OF THE WORLD: One nice thing about Little Miss
Molly-she doesn't carry a grudge. She pouted quite a bit during our last
severe weather because I had no time to play with her, but yesterday morning
the minute I started playing kickball with her, she was happy as a lark and
all was forgiven. It sure would be nice if we humans were that way...when we
got back from Hale County, she was extra glad to see us because we had been
gone 10 hours and I didn't think she would ever stop jumping up and down
with joy. We spent a lot of time Saturday evening catching up on loving her.
Each walk over the weekend, I let Molly be the boss and she took a record
amount of time inspecting everything in sight. Life goes on.

J.B. Elliott
jbelliott@centurytel.net

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TONIGHT
Mostly fair.
Morning Low 64
WIND: SW 10-15

TUESDAY
Clouds increase. Breezy with showers and thunderstorms main afternoon and
night. Few may be severe.
Morning Low 64 Afternoon High 86
WIND: NW 10-18

WEDNESDAY
Showers and thunderstorms mainly morning. A lot cooler Wednesday night.
Morning Low 61 Afternoon High 68
WIND: W 8-16

THURSDAY
Sunny with low humidity. A chilly early morning.
Morning Low 46 Afternoon High 72
WIND: SW 5-10

FRIDAY
Mostly sunny. Another cool morning.
Morning Low 48 Afternoon High 75
WIND: SW 10-15

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THE 2006 ALABAMA SPORTS HALL OF FAME
INDUCTION WEEKEND! MAY 20-22

The weekend festivities starts off on Saturday, May 20 with the Alabama
Sports Hall of Fame Foundation Reunion of Winners Celebrity Dinner and
Silent Auction featuring comedian Mike Rayburn at the Birmingham Sheraton
Civic Center Hotel.

The induction banquet for the Class of 2006 will be Sunday night, May 21 at
the Birmingham Sheraton Civic Center Hotel. This year's class includes Mia
Hamm, Mickey Andrews, Joe Ciampi, Jim "Peanuts" Davenport, the late Tim
Flock, Lionel James, Buddy McClinton and Bob Veale. Our Distinguished
American Sportsman for 2006 is Michael E. Stephens.

The Reunion of Winners Golf Tournament will be held on Monday, May 22nd at
the Bent Brook Golf Course.

Rub shoulders with Alabama's greatest sport heroes such as Gene Bartow,
Robert Brazile, Pat Dye, Kevin Greene, Lloyd Nix, Wimp Sanderson, John
Stallworth and many more.

The ROW events are the primary fundraisers for the ASHOF Outreach Program.
Through this program, more than 50,000 students statewide have been provided
the opportunity to visit the ASHOF and be inspired by some of our state's
and nation's most outstanding sports figures who are ASHOF Inductees.

For more information about the weekend of events call the Alabama Sports
Hall of Fame at 205-323-6665 or visit their website at http://www.ashof.org.
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