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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Afternoon Edition For Wednesday May 31, 2006
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LOTS OF HAZE AND HUMIDITY: But not for too long. We are still
advertising a cold front moving through Central Alabama later Friday and
Friday night dropping the humidity considerably over the weekend and
bringing mostly sunshine Saturday and Sunday. That front should also do away
with a lot of the haze.

We are stretching a point to call it a cold front. It is actually a
dividing line between much drier air and the moist air we have along with a
drop in temperature. After today, we should be through with 90s for a while.
This will be due to an increase in showers and thunderstorms Thursday and
Friday followed by cooler air on Saturday.

HOW COOL WILL IT GET? Well, you won't need a sweater or light
jacket, but nighttime temperatures will drop as low as 60 to 62. We may hear
of some upper 50s in places like Bridgeport, Hamilton and Gadsden. Most of
the showers and thunderstorms will occur later in the day Thursday and
Thursday night and extending well into Friday. Not out of the question that
some communities could receive around 1 inch of rain. Most people will be
glad to see that.

A HISTORIC DISASTER: It occurred on this date in 1889 in Johnstown,
Pennsylvania. Two days of very heavy rain made the dam at the South Fork
Fishing and Hunting Club give way. The dam was 14 miles from Johnstown and
450 feet higher. The wall of water was 75 feet high and one-half mile wide
coming down the Little Conemaugh River. The entire lake emptied in 36
minutes flowing downhill as fast as Niagara Falls. Most of Johnstown was
destroyed as the huge wall of water and debris roared in at 4:07pm. More
than 2,200 people died in the disaster. Some of the people burned to death
when huge piles of debris caught fire.

THREE-DOT STUFF: Alf van Hoose, legendary sports editor of the
Birmingham News, did a lot of writing with incomplete sentences to save
space. I need to save space, so here we go...heavy hail, Elbert County,
Colorado caused vehicles to skid off the roads yesterday...2-inch hail
accumulations around Lubbock, Texas...12 inches of rain this month in Boston
and Portland...76 mph wind gust, Childress, Texas...3.25 inches of rain in
Houston Heights overnight...lots of flooding continues in the Houston
area...29 was the Alaska low at Barrow, which was 7 degrees warmer than 22
at Big Piney, Wyoming...snow melted quicker than usual across
Alaska...Barrow only has 4 inches remaining...108 was the USA high Tuesday
at Castolon in the Big Bend area of SW Texas.

MY TINY CORNER OF THE WORLD: There are times when I get so busy
that I don't have time to play with Little Miss Molly, my 9-pound stick
tight pal. You can bet she knows it and eventually she will get very
assertive...I sat down on the couch for a cup of coffee with the Birmingham
News at 9:02am. 5 seconds later Molly became airborne and threw one of her
balls in my lap. She gathered up 5 more and deposited them at my feet. How
is a guy going to get a break without feeling guilty? She has learned to
field the ball almost like a major league baseball player, so we had a long
game after only 3 sips of coffee. Little Miss Molly needs a haircut. Since
she is solid black except for a white strip on her chest, she gets hot in
the middle of the day walks, so we have shortened those. Life goes on.

J.B. Elliott
jbelliott@centurytel.net

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TONIGHT
Warm and hazy. A few isolated thunderstorms.
Morning Low 71
WIND: SE 4-7

THURSDAY
Warm and humid with scattered showers and thunderstorms increasing by late
afternoon and at night.
Morning Low 71 Afternoon High 88
WIND: SE 5-10

FRIDAY
Mostly cloudy with occasional showers and thunderstorms. Not as warm.
Morning Low 68 Afternoon High 84
WIND: NW 6-12

SATURDAY
Becoming mostly sunny and less humid, cooler at night.
Morning Low 62 Afternoon High 86
WIND: N 5-10

SUNDAY
Mostly sunny. A cool early morning.
Morning Low 61 Afternoon High 86
WIND: NE 5-10

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