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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Afternoon Edition For Saturday July 1, 2006
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GOOD AFTERNOON: It is another hot one across the area on this Saturday.
Temperatures are soaring well into the 90s across the area, and a few select
locations may touch the century mark. High pressure has become more firmly
entrenched today and even with the extreme heat, thunderstorms will be hard
to come by. A few isolated storms were developing by 2 p.m., but they will
be far fewer and further between than yesterday.

WELCOME TO JULY: July is the hottest month of the year for us here in
Birmingham with an average high of 90.2F and an average overnight low of
59.7F. The average monthly mean temperature is 79.8 degrees, about .8 of a
degree warmer than the second warmest month, August.

The hottest it has ever been in July here was 107F on July 29, 1930. This
is also the hottest it has ever been in Birmingham. On average, the mercury
reaches 90F or high on 17.3 days.

On average, we see 5.09 inches of rain in July. The most ever in any July
is 20.12 inches in July 1916. Thanks to the ever present summertime
afternoon
and evening storms, on average, it rains on 12 days in the month. That is
the most of any month in the year. On average, there are also twelve
thunderstorm days also.

It is one of the least cloudy months, cloudy only 23% of the time. But it
is not nearly the month with the most clear weather. That falls to October.

It is clear 38% of the time on average in October in Birmingham.

OUR FORECAST: Isolated storms will diminish this evening and skies will
become fair by morning. Temperatures overnight will drop to near 70
degrees. Those overnight lows will be rising slowly over the next few
nights as dew points rise slightly. Tomorrow should look a lot like today,
with only a tiny chance of an afternoon storm. Highs will be right around
95 degrees again, on average.
By Monday, I think we will see an increase in the quantity of afternoon and
evening storms that will develop across the area, but they will still be
only scattered. Better chances will come on Tuesday, and especially on
Wednesday, as a frontal system says down into North Alabama.

A QUICK LOOK AT THE TROPICS: Showers have diminished over the western
Atlantic. Development of this system is not expected. The disturbance over
the southwestern Gulf of Mexico has diminished also. Likewise, tropical
cyclone forecast is not expected here either.

ON THIS DATE IN 1776: The Continental Congress was debating whether the
thirteen American Colonies should declare their independence from Great
Britain on this date in Philadelphia. The weather all spring and summer in
Philadelphia had been warm, and the past few days had been very steamy
indeed.
On this morning, John Dickinson had just finished his great appeal for
remaining loyal to the British when rain began to fall. As John Adams stood
to deliver his oration for independence, a summer thunderstorm broke over
the city, and the founding father, who had been scared of lightning and
thunder as a child, delivered his own thunderous speech.

Bill Murray
bill@integralhospitality.com

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TONIGHT
Isolated storms diminish this evening. Fair skies overnight.
Morning Low 71
WIND: Light

SUNDAY
Partly cloudy and hot. An isolated storm is possible.
Morning Low 71 Afternoon High 95
WIND: S 5-10

MONDAY
Partly cloudy and hot. Scattered showers and storms developing during the
afternoon.
Morning Low 72 Afternoon High 95
WIND: SW 5-10

TUESDAY
Partly sunny with a good chance of showers and storms.
Morning Low 73 Afternoon High 94
WIND: SW 5-10

WEDNESDAY
Showers and thunderstorms likely.
Morning Low 73 Afternoon High 90
WIND: SW 5-10

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