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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Afternoon Edition For Thursday June 29, 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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DRIER AND DRIER: I think everyone in Alabama would agree that we need rain. In many areas, it is getting extremely dry. What are our chances? Little or none, at least through the weekend. A few afternoon thunderstorms could show up by Monday and on Independence Day.

Meanwhile, afternoons will gradually get hotter and by the weekend, many areas will have afternoon temperatures in the mid 90s. We will still have at least one more pleasantly cool night with lows by tomorrow morning around 64 across Central Alabama and maybe 58 in some of the cooler valleys. Here are lows early this morning:

54 at Cullman Airport
56 in DeSoto State Park
57 at Pinson, Jasper, Talladega
58 in Crossville
59 in Decatur, Ft. Payne, Anniston, Wedowee
60 in Tuscaloosa, Vinemont, Livingston
61 in Huntsville and Troy
62 in Birmingham

TROPICAL WEATHER: A tropical wave was over the Eastern Caribbean, across the Lesser Antilles and north into the Atlantic for a few hundred miles. For several days, strong upper level winds make it very unfriendly for tropical development and that is still the story today. The disturbed area will move WNW at 15-20 mph.

LOOKING IN ALL DIRECTIONS: Great news...the vicious wild fire is under control in Oak Creek Canyon south of Flagstaff, Arizona, but a real problem continues in the Kaibab National Forest north of the north rim of the Grand Canyon...low temperatures this morning included 38 in Hibbing, Minnesota and 36 at Point Holt, Alaska...high up in the Great Smoky National Park, it was 43 this morning atop Mt. LeConte, enough for a sweater for most folks except me...I sure would like to have been driving up the Paint Rock Valley in extreme North Alabama at daybreak. The road runs along the Paint Rock River...we cannot overemphasize the seriousness of the flooding in the NE USA. The fact that 46 of the 67 counties in Pennsylvania are under a state of emergency, says it all...the rain has greatly decreased, but now river flooding is the problem...on this date in 1994, it was a blistering 128 degrees at Lake Havasu City—the all-time record for the state of Arizona.

MY TINY CORNER OF THE WORLD: Little Miss Molly’s abode is getting a deep cleaning today, including the carpet, blinds—you name it. This has completely disrupted the daily routine of the little doggy. She sat in my office out of the way a long time this morning. Her curiosity was so great that she kept walking back and forth across my desk, occasionally stepping on my keyboard and causing a lot of typos. Because of the cleaning, we have not had a single ballgame today and she clearly misses that. Also, she has missed all of her naps. I had a nostril-to-nostril talk with her and told her I would make up for lost time. Life goes on and we have a clean house!

J.B. Elliott
jbelliott@centurytel.net

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TONIGHT
Clear with pleasant temperatures.
Morning Low 64
WIND: Light

FRIDAY
Mostly sunny.
Morning Low 64 Afternoon High 92
WIND: N 5-10

SATURDAY
Mostly sunny.
Morning Low 68 Afternoon High 93
WIND: SE 5-10

SUNDAY
Partly sunny. A hot afternoon.
Morning Low 70 Afternoon High 94
WIND: S 5-10

MONDAY
Partly sunny. A slight chance of an afternoon thunderstorm.
Morning Low 70 Afternoon High 93
WIND: SW 5-10

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