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Afternoon Edition For Tuesday May 2, 2006
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BEST CHANCE OF RAIN END OF WEEK: The weather is slowly changing
across Alabama, but we do not see a large number of showers and
thunderstorms until Friday and Saturday. Actually, the Storm Prediction
Center extended a slight risk of severe weather down into extreme North
Alabama for this afternoon and tonight. They based it on some outflow
boundaries coming out of storms in Arkansas and Middle Tennessee. Here in
Central Alabama there should be very few.

Same story tomorrow and Thursday. There should be a general increase
in showers and thunderstorms Friday and some communities will get more than
one inch of rain. They will continue most of Friday night and Saturday,
finally decreasing late in the day Saturday. Next Sunday and Monday should
have very nice weather.

LET'S TALK TORNADOES: Just because March and April have passed does
not mean that Alabama is out of its prime severe weather season. It can
extend well into May. In fact, a vicious tornado touched down north of
Demopolis on May 27, 1973 and stayed on the ground until it lifted on the SW
slopes of Mt. Cheaha in East Alabama making it our longest track tornado.
The tornado devastated the heart of Brent in Bibb County killing 5 people
and injuring 56. More than 12,000 acres of timber was destroyed. It was an
F4. May 27 seems to stand out like a sore thumb, because on that date in
1917, an outbreak of tornadoes across Central and North Alabama brought
death and destruction. Some communities along the Jefferson-Walker County
line were almost wiped off the map, especially the community of Bradford.

Dan McCarthy was a guest on our Weather Brains broadcast this week.
He is in charge of keeping the tornado log for the Storm Prediction Center.
He told us last night that he had finished the 2005 numbers. There were
1,264 tornadoes in the nation in 2005. There were 38 fatalities. Already in
2006, we have 49 fatalities-well ahead of last year. Our neighboring state
of Tennessee has suffered 35 of those 49 fatalities and that was in two
major events on April 2 and April 7. The first tornado death of the year
occurred on January 13 in the community of Belleville in South Central
Alabama.

JUST TO MAKE YOU SHIVER: You may have absolutely no interest in
this kind of stuff, but I was fascinated by the fact that Vostok, Antarctica
was reporting 96 below zero this afternoon with a wind chill of 121 below.
The station is located at an elevation of 11,200 feet and much of that is a
tremendous sheet of ice...by the way, the lowest in our lower 48 states this
morning was 22 at Stanley, Idaho.

MY TINY CORNER OF THE WORLD: It is my fault. I have played ball
with Little Miss Molly so much in the last three days that she has raised
the bar. She fully expects me to play ball every time I walk through the
living area. I have to walk through that area to get to the kitchen, to get
coffee, or to go to the bathroom...on a half-mile walk yesterday afternoon,
we immediately saw Jo-Jo through the hedgerow behind our house and Molly is
still clearly in love with him. Not only was Jo-Jo barking, but he caused
the new dog at that house to start that long lonesome bark which ends with a
sudden high note. I sure do enjoy hearing that. I guess every dog has a bark
of their own. Miss Molly sure did get excited also when she ran into
Bridgette (another shih-tzu) and her mom, Lisa, at the far end of the
walking track. Every walk is different, Molly loves them all. Life goes on.

J.B. Elliott
jbelliott@centurytel.net

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TONIGHT
Mild with a slight chance of a shower or thunderstorm.
Morning Low 62
WIND: SW 4-6

WEDNESDAY
Partly sunny. Widely scattered showers or thunderstorms.
Morning Low 62 Afternoon High 82
WIND: W 6-12

THURSDAY
A slight chance of mostly afternoon showers or thunderstorms.
Morning Low 63 Afternoon High 83
WIND: SW 7-14

FRIDAY
Mostly cloudy and breezy. Showers and thunderstorms becoming more numerous.
Morning Low 64 Afternoon High 79
WIND: SW 10-20

SATURDAY
Breezy with occasional showers and thunderstorms diminishing late.
Morning Low 62 Afternoon High 72
WIND: NW 10-20

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