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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Afternoon Edition For Thursday June 1, 2006
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SOME MUCH NEEDED RAIN AHEAD: There are places in Alabama that are
crying for rain and other places that are not so bad off. In the hot humid
air across the state this afternoon, a few showers and storms were
developing. Those should increase some late today and tonight. It still
looks like Friday will be our best day to get some beneficial rain as a cold
front gets closer to the state.

Highs Friday will only be in the low and mid 80s due mainly to an
increase in clouds and showers instead of cooler air. Cooler air will be
moving in bringing clearing weather early Saturday.

THE WEEKEND: Both Saturday and Sunday look like they will be the
most pleasant days we have had in quite some time with mostly sunshine,
lower humidity, highs in the mid 80s and cooler nights.

MIXED UP MONTH OF MAY: There were really two separate parts to May.
Let's use the official temperatures at Anniston Airport as an example.
During a 13-day period from May 5 through the 17th, the temperature only
reached 80 one time. There was a big change starting May 18 and the last 12
days of the month featured 90 degrees or higher every single day.

SCANNING THE GLOBE: This afternoon temperatures in Iraq reached 115
at Basrah. The humidity was only 5%...here in the USA the hottest Wednesday
was 109 in Death Valley...West Yellowstone, Montana was the coldest in the
lower 48 this morning with 24...tremendous rains have continued along the
Texas coast. Would you believe that Corpus Christi got 11.51 inches of rain
in only 10 hours during the night? That is an all-time record even for 24
hours which was 8.07 on June 27, 1931...Houston also getting way too much
rain.

LIGHTNING IS FRIGHTENING: Most of the time, that is, but an odd
thing happened on this date in 1980 at Falmouth, Massachusetts. A blind man
was struck by lightning and his sight was restored. He had been blind and
partially deaf since a truck accident 9 years before.

TROPICAL WEATHER: Starting today the National Hurricane Center will
issue a tropical weather outlook four times a day. Nothing going on today.
That upper low that has caused all the rain on the Texas coast will be
lifted toward the NE by an approaching upper air system giving a whole bunch
of Texans a chance to dry out.

MY TINY CORNER OF THE WORLD: I am certain that Little Miss Molly
and I encountered our first mosquito on a night walk. I am usually a real
marksman with Molly's little blue scoop, but I missed that one. A neighbor
reports that she has been bitten twice already this season and she is going
to start wearing a sheet of fabric softener to keep them at bay. A lot of
our neighbors do that. They recommended that I rub Little Miss Molly with a
sheet of it too...sure made up a lot of time with Molly late last night and
this morning playing ball. She now wants me to throw all 5 balls at one
time. They scatter all over the place and she goes berserk. Life goes on in
our little minor league and our little tiny corner of the world. Much rather
be here than in a huge megatropolis.

J.B. Elliott
jbelliott@centurytel.net

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TONIGHT
Mostly cloudy with scattered showers and thunderstorms.
Morning Low 69
WIND: Light

FRIDAY
A good chance of showers and thunderstorms. Not as warm.
Morning Low 69 Afternoon High 83
WIND: NW 6-12

SATURDAY
Clearing early. Becoming mostly sunny and less humid.
Morning Low 62 Afternoon High 84
WIND: N 7-14

SUNDAY
Mostly sunny. A cool early morning.
Morning Low 58 Afternoon High 84
WIND: NE 5-10

MONDAY
Partly sunny.
Morning Low 59 Afternoon High 85
WIND: NE 5-10

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