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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Morning Edition For Sunday April 16, 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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...Breezy Sunday...

GOOD MORNING! Most of the area is experiencing a cloudy start this
morning. The low clouds will burn off quickly this morning, giving way to
partly cloudy skies. Temperatures will rise quickly, reaching the upper 80s
in most locations by mid-afternoon. It will be quite windy today, with
southwesterly winds averaging 15-20 mph and occasionally gusting to over 25
mph. Lots of folks will be taking to area lakes today, but boaters should
exercise extreme caution.

MOVING TOWARD A NEW WEEK: Low clouds will form again tonight, giving us
another gray start on Monday. Once again, the clouds will evaporate by
mid-morning, leaving partly cloudy skies. Winds will be more westerly and
northwesterly tomorrow as a low pressure system slides to the east of
Alabama. Still, temperatures will climb into the middle and upper 80s in
most locations, just shy of record levels.

High pressure east of the Appalachians will drive an easterly wedge into
Alabama on Tuesday, cooling things a bit. Low pressure will give us chances
of showers and storms from Wednesday into the weekend.

SATURDAY SEVERE WEATHER: The nationwide tornado count continues to mount,
thanks to another active severe weather day over a concentrated area of the
Missouri River Valley. At least a dozen tornado reports had been received
by forecast deadline time, pushing the monthly total to over 215 already.

This number will likely go down by about 20%, but we have a lot of month to
go also. The highest number of tornadoes in any April is 276 in...you
guessed it...1974. We could easily pass that mark this year. Last year
there were 106 twisters in April.

SUNDAY SEVERE WEATHER: Severe weather is possible again on Sunday from
eastern Iowa and Missouri across Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky southeast into
Virginia and North Carolina. Tornadoes are likely once again, over a wide
area.

BUT I SWEAR I MAILED IT: Hundreds of federal tax returns being loaded into
a truck were blown away at Will Roger's Airport in Oklahoma City by a
violent thunderstorm. The 93 mph wind gust that was measured was the
strongest there in 24 years.

Bill Murray
bill@integralhospitality.com

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TODAY
Low clouds burn off leaving partly cloudy skies. . Winds pick up from
southwest. Very warm.
Afternoon High 87
WIND: NE 6-12

MONDAY
A gray start, then partly cloudy and continued warm.
Morning Low 65 Afternoon High 88
WIND: SE 6-12

TUESDAY
Partly sunny and cooler. Slight chance of a shower.
Morning Low 61 Afternoon High 79
WIND: E 6-12

WEDNESDAY
Chance of showers, maybe a storm.
Morning Low 62 Afternoon High 81
WIND: SE 6-12

THURSDAY
Shower and storm chances continue.
Morning Low 62 Afternoon High 82
WIND: NW 6-12

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