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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Afternoon Edition For Wednesday July 5, 2006
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FINALLY SOME BENEFICIAL RAIN: We think that much of Alabama will
have the best chance of getting beneficial rain from now well into
Thursday afternoon. While it may not rain over every square mile, a
lot of people will see more rain than they have in recent weeks. Why?
A moisture influx from the west and north, while a cool front now over
NW Tennessee will try to push into North-Central Alabama by daybreak
Thursday. Once again, most of the weather models are friendly with
each other and project the front to eventually try to visit Mobile and
the northern Gulf waters. Showers and thunderstorms were already
increasing across North Alabama this afternoon. They will continue to
spread eastward with the whole system shifting toward the SE. By
tomorrow morning, we may see some 1-inch rainfall amounts with some
places getting more than that due to the slow-moving storms.

Last night some slow-moving thunderstorms dumped over 2 inches of
rain around Vance in East Tuscaloosa County and also in areas of North
Bibb County north of Centreville. Nearly 1 inch fell in Gadsden, 2/3
of an inch in Blount Springs and 0.63 in Greystone Cove.

BEYOND THE RAIN: The combination of increased showers and clouds and
the cool front moving in will hold high temperatures into the mid 80s
Thursday. That is a real break. You will notice a drop in humidity by
Friday with mostly sunshine into the weekend. Nighttime temperatures
will drop as low as 64 early Friday morning.

OUR WORLD OF WEATHER: This is a new feature starting today. We will
try to run it every weekday afternoon. It will be literally a gumbo
soup of weather notes, climate and geography...we will try to make it
interesting...Death Valley is the only place in the USA that has ever
had nighttime low temperatures above 100. On this date in 1970, they
had a low of 103...they were the hottest spot in the nation yesterday
with 115...Death Valley is 140 miles long and 4 to 6 miles wide and
most of it is below sea level...40 at Lake Tahoe was the coolest this
morning...highs will be around 116 at Basrah, Iraq all this
week...Vostok, Antarctica reporting 95 below zero.

TROPICAL WEATHER: Clouds and showers continue from the Cayman
Islands north across Cuba and the Bahamas. All of this will drift west
across Florida during the next 24 to 36 hours. No threat of tropical
development.

MY TINY CORNER OF THE WORLD: I love Independence Day as much as
anybody, but it is sort of a relief for the firecrackers to be gone.
Little Miss Molly had a nerve-wracking 48 hours. She spent the entire
night under the bed last night. When I would walk through the living
area, she would come out briefly to see if I wanted to play and then
go right back to her safe place. She loves the bed in the guest
bedroom because the dust ruffle comes all the way to the floor. For
much of last night, you could only see the very tip of her tail or the
very tip of her little black nose sticking out. We could not even get
her to go outside for a bathroom break until after midnight. But the
little girl did us a favor and did not have any accidents. Life goes
on beyond firecrackers. We love it all.

J.B. Elliott
jbelliott@centurytel.net

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TONIGHT
Occasional showers and thunderstorms. Most areas will get beneficial rain.
Morning Low 70
WIND: SW 4-7

THURSDAY
Showers and thunderstorms ending by afternoon. Not as hot. Clearing
and cooler Thursday night.
Morning Low 70 Afternoon High 85
WIND: N 6-12

FRIDAY
Mostly sunny and less humid.
Morning Low 64 Afternoon High 89
WIND: N 5-10

SATURDAY
Mostly sunny.
Morning Low 67 Afternoon High 91
WIND: E 5-10

SUNDAY
Partly sunny.
Morning Low 68 Afternoon High 92
WIND: SE 5-10

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