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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Afternoon Edition For Wednesday June 28, 2006
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2006 AVP HOOVER OPEN PRESENTED BY VAULT
PRO BEACH VOLLEYBALL
JULY 13-16 at The Hoover Met
For Tickets, call (800) 240-2300
or visit http://www.avphoover.com

Pro Beach Volleyball is coming to Alabama! The Hoover Met is being
converted to a beach for Birmingham's biggest beach party. Come see
Olympic Gold Medalists Misty May and Kerri Walsh along with the greatest
volleyball player of all time, Karch Kiraly. Get your flip flops and tank tops
ready and make your plans to come to the Hoover Met July 13-16.

Be sure to order your tickets today. Single session tickets and all
tournament books are available at 800-243-2300 or by logging on to
http://www.avphoover.com. Tickets are also available at Bruno's, Food World,
and Food Max locations. For discounted group tickets (10 or more) call,
205-262-2832. Go to http://www.avphoover.com for all of the latest info.

The 2006 AVP Hoover Open presented by Vault - Pro Beach Volleyball!
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SUNSHINE PREDOMINATES: Yes, we need rain, but sunshine is the Alabama weather story at this time and it looks like Thursday will also be mostly sunny. We do appreciate the cooler nights. Again tonight, the low should be in the lower 60s generally across Central Alabama with some upper 50s in the North Alabama valleys. Temperatures fell as low as 54 last night in Collinsville. Here is a list of some of the most delightful low temperatures.

54 in Collinsville
57 in Valley Head
58 in Black Creek (NE Etowah County)
59 in Pinson, DeSoto State Park, Russellville
60 in Jasper, Tuscaloosa, Hartselle, Grove Oak
61 in Decatur, Crossville, High Top
63 in Anniston, Cullman, Huntsville
64 in Albertville, Ft. Payne
65 at Birmingham and Shelby County Airport

WHAT ABOUT RAIN? With an upper level low pressure trough swinging our winds aloft back to the NW, minor disturbances could bring a few showers or thunderstorms down our way from the NW. A few of those could occur mainly over NE Alabama Thursday or Friday. We do not expect any rain here in Central Alabama. However, by Sunday some widely scattered afternoon thunderstorms may appear. Our high temperatures will also be creeping upward and by Sunday we will have mid 90s.

TROPICAL WEATHER: That wanna-be tropical depression that never quite made it moved in on the North Carolina coast yesterday morning and was moving up through New England this afternoon. Flood problems in the mid-Atlantic States northeastward to New England are awesome. There has been so much rain that officials have worried about some breaks in dams, which could cause some catastrophic flooding. Numerous Flash Flood Warning continue for today. Back out in the Atlantic, a west-moving tropical wave was moving across the Lesser Antilles. The winds upstairs are very unfriendly from tropical development. Another broad and discombobulated area of showers and thunderstorms was between Bermuda and Puerto Rico. Significant development is not expected, at least for a day or so.

WEDNESDAY WANDERINGS: 35 at the west edge of Yellowstone Park was the coldest this morning...121 was the hottest in Death Valley Tuesday...more than 4 inches of rain in Tallahassee yesterday...2.65 inches in Scranton, Pa., and 2.67 in Allentown...here in Alabama, we were going through a drought and heat wave in 1954...over in South Carolina on June 28, it got as hot as 111...a crippling heat wave was also underway in 1980 and on this date it reached 117 at Wichita Falls in North Texas.

MY TINY CORNER OF THE WORLD: My little 9-pound friend, Miss Molly, has too much control over me. Sometimes I feel like I am under bondage to that little girl. I have been trying to turn my head and not look at her when I make many trips from my weather office to the kitchen to get another healthy cup of coffee. If I have eye contact with her, I am doomed. One thing for sure, she knows that and even when I make the slightest noise getting out of my office chair, she runs and finds one of her balls and is standing in the middle of the living area waiting for me. I have no chance. So, most of the time, I put my coffee cup down and instantly become involved with a fast-paced ballgame. I think she would play for an hour at a time. She had a love session with Tommie, one of her favor persons on the walking track this morning. That made her day. Life goes on.

J.B. Elliott
jbelliott@centurytel.net

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TONIGHT
Mostly clear.
Morning Low 62
WIND: N 3-6

THURSDAY
Mostly sunny. A cool early morning.
Morning Low 62 Afternoon High 91
WIND: N 5-10

FRIDAY
Partly sunny.
Morning Low 64 Afternoon High 92
WIND: NE 5-10

SATURDAY
Partly sunny. A hotter afternoon
Morning Low 68 Afternoon High 93
WIND: S 5-10

SUNDAY
Partly sunny and hot. A slight chance of an afternoon thunderstorm.
Morning Low 70 Afternoon High 94
WIND: SW 5-10

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