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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Afternoon Edition For Saturday August 26, 2006
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...Tropical Trouble...

Tropical Storm Ernesto will be our problem for the next six days or so as it
moves toward the Gulf of Mexico. Just where it will end up is the cause of
much speculation in our weather office and multiple others around the
country, especially the NHC.

R&R: Thanks to JB for standing in last night while I attended the
Rockies-Padres game at Coors Field in Denver. A beautiful night and a
beautiful setting for a ballgame.

OUR WEATHER: Moisture levels continue to increase, and we will see scattered
storms each day through Monday. Those storm chances will increase on
Tuesday as a front approaches from the north. The front slides into our
area on Wednesday. The fact that is will make it here is a big problem,
because the trough that allows it may bring tropical trouble northward.

TROPICS: Debbie, down to a depression, will lose tropical characteristics
sometime today over the open waters of the Atlantic. Ernesto is our
problem. The storm should continue moving wet northwest across the
Caribbean, moving into the SE Gulf late early Tuesday. Then the thinking
diverges. There are two major options for the atmosphere it seems at this
time. A ridge of high pressure will hold across the northern Gulf,
deflecting the storm to the northwest toward the western Louisiana or Texas
Coast. But there are increasing indications that the ridge will weaken,
allowing the hurricane to take a more northerly track. This poses an
increased threat from the Central Louisiana coast around Lafayette through
the New Orleans area, over Mississippi and Alabama and then as far east as
the Florida Big Bend area. The official track carries it into the
southeastern Gulf early Tuesday morning, to the middle of the Gulf by
Wednesday morning and to a position 175 miles south of Biloxi.

MARS HOAX: You probably have received the email that says Mars will appear
as large as the full moon tomorrow morning. Just not true. It will be its
normal size. But go outside before dawn tomorrow morning, the 27th, and
see Saturn and Venus having a close encounter in the eastern sky. The two
will appear right next to each other in the brightening dawn. Use
binoculars for a spectacular view.

REMEMBERING KATRINA: One year ago, Katrina had crossed Florida and emerged
into the Gulf. After a brief drop to tropical storm strength, the storm
entered a period of rapid deepening. The morning forecast package indicated
that the hurricane would turn northwest and then north, making a second
landfall near Panama City, Florida in about 72 hours. Much like this week's
upper air forecast, a weakness was developing over the southern U.S.
Through the day, the hurricane's central pressure dropped from 987 millibars
to 965 millibars by late afternoon and top winds increased to 100 mph. The
late afternoon forecast package shifted the official track 150 miles to the
west, with a projected landfall just west of Mobile. Forecasters cautioned
that the track was still very uncertain, and that the models were actually
beginning to agree on an even more westerly landfall in southeastern
Louisiana.

All of the guidance was predicting that Katrina would become a major
hurricane before landfall, with the official forecast calling for Katrina to
intensify into a Category Four hurricane. People along the Gulf Coast fell
into a nervous sleep that Friday night.

Bill Murray
bill@integralhospitality.com

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TONIGHT
Low clouds and fog form again. Small chance of an overnight shower.
Morning Low 73
WIND: SE 3-6

SUNDAY
Another rather gray start. Becoming partly cloudy. Scattered showers and
storms developing.
Morning Low 73 Afternoon High 90
WIND: S 5-10

MONDAY
Clouds greet the day. Becoming partly sunny. A fairly good chance of
showers and storms.
Morning Low 74 Afternoon High 89
WIND: SW 6-12

TUESDAY
Mostly cloudy. Showers and thunderstorms likely. .
Morning Low 73 Afternoon High 89
WIND: SW 7-14

WEDNESDAY
A morning shower or storm. Then becoming partly cloudy.
Morning Low 72 Afternoon High 90
WIND: NW 5-10

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