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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Afternoon Edition For Saturday May 20, 2006
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GOOD AFTERNOON: It is a hot and breezy Saturday here in Central Alabama.
West winds at 10-20 mph are occasionally gusting to over 25 mph.
Temperatures will top out well into the upper 80s to lower 90s in most
locations. In some places, it will be the warmest weather we have seen this
year.

STORMS: A wavy, basically stationary frontal boundary is over Tennessee
this afternoon. Thunderstorms were firing over eastern Tennessee where
there was less of an atmospheric lid in place. The airmass south of the
front is expected to become more unstable with time and thunderstorms will
fire further to the south, down into Northeast Alabama. The storms that do
form will have sufficient shear to get organized quickly and several will
become severe. The primary threats will be from large hail and damaging
winds. The storms should remain northeast of a line from Centre to
Guntersville to Decatur to Florence. South of that line, the airmass is
more conditionally unstable, but the lid is stronger. Can't rule out a storm
in the Anniston-Birmingham-Jasper area today through.

TONIGHT: Any storms that do form will die down before 10 p.m. It will be
warm overnight, with lows struggling to get very far past 70 degrees. Most
areas will see overnight lows in the 60s.

THE WEEK AHEAD: Building high pressure over the Ohio Valley will push the
frontal boundary on southward by Monday. It will be accompanied by showers
and storms Monday afternoon through the overnight. Tuesday and Wednesday
will feature less in the way of showers, but rain and storm chances will be
on the rise later in the week as a significant disturbance approaches from
the northwest.

TROPICS: It is hard to believe that we are already closely scrutinizing the
tropics. The Atlantic and Caribbean are quiet except for a couple of weak
tropical waves. The Gulf is quiet thanks to sprawling high pressure.
Looking ahead, overnight runs of the GFS depict a low in the Gulf in the
coming week and another one around June 4-5.

RECORD BIN: Record warmth continued across the West on Friday. Alamosa,
CO is a gem in the San Luis Valley of South Central Colorado, surrounded by
the spectacular vista of the Sangre de Christo Mountains. I am sure that
J.B. knows it well. It was 81F in Alamosa yesterday. Even Alaska got in on
the act, where it was 60F in Cold Bay, breaking the old record of 56F. To
the east, the 86F at Colorado Springs, tying the record. In the central
part of the country, it reached 96F in Tulsa, OK yesterday, establishing a
new record. On the other side of the coin, it was cool in the East. You
needed a jacket in Pittsburgh yesterday, where the afternoon high was a
chilly 51F, a record cool high temperature for the date. It was 67F in Key
West this morning, one degree cooler than any previous May 20th.

ON THIS DATE IN 1883: The tiny Indonesian Island of Krakatau was shook by a
series of loud explosions that signaled that the long-dormant volcano on the
uninhabited island was active once again. Residents on the neighboring
islands of Sumatra and Java were not really concerned as the island's
rumblings grew in intensity over the next few months. On August 27th, the
major eruption sent a cloud of burning ash toward the island of Sumatra,
where many residents were burned to death. But the major disaster resulted
when tsunamis triggered by the massive blast emanated outward from Krakatau.
Waves up to 130 feet high swept the islands of Java and Sumatra. All in
all, 36,000 people were killed by the eruptions and resultant tsunamis.

Bill Murray
bill@integralhospitality.com

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TONIGHT
Isolated strong storms Northeast this evening. Otherwise partly cloudy and
mild.
Morning Low 66
WIND: Light SW

SUNDAY
Lots of hot sunshine. Slight chance of a storm over extreme North and
Northeast.
Morning Low 66 Afternoon High 89
WIND: W 7-14

MONDAY
Partly cloudy. Showers and a storm possible late in the day through the
overnight.
Morning Low 64 Afternoon High 86
WIND: NW 8-16

TUESDAY
Partly sunny with a chance of showers.
Morning Low 64 Afternoon High 83
WIND: NW 5-10

WEDNESDAY
Partly cloudy.
Morning Low 62 Afternoon High 84
WIND: NW 5-10

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