ABC 33/40 E-Forecast

ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Morning Edition For Tuesday August 22, 2006
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Cloning. Same-Sex Marriage. Stem Cell Research.

We live in confusing times. Wrong is right. Right is intolerant.
Who is right?

Living Truth Conference will open the Bible for answers.

You are invited to attend Living Truth Conference 6:30 p.m.
nightly September 10-13 at Hunter Street Baptist Church.
It's for everyone who wants to know how to use the Bible to guide daily
decisions. Living Truth features outstanding biblical thinkers, interaction,
questions and most of all answers to issues that touch us deeply.

Visit http://www.TruthConference.org to register or find out more. Register
before August 30 for conference specials, including free childcare, and
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For more, call 205-985-7295 or http://www.hunterstreet.org
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...Wetter Weather Ahead...

We will maintain a chance of showers and thunderstorms across Alabama today
thanks to a weak front pushing into North Alabama. The air should be a
little more stable today thanks to warmer air aloft, so we don't expect the
storms to be as strong or as widespread as what we saw yesterday. And, as
drier air pushes into North Alabama the most numerous showers and storms
should be sound south of I-20 by afternoon. That dry air will continue to
settle southward, and most of North Alabama should be rain-free tomorrow and
Thursday, with almost all of the scattered showers and storms over the
southern counties of Alabama.

By Friday, we will bring back a chance of widely scattered afternoon storms,
and by the time the weekend arrives we should be back into our normal summer
pattern with morning sun, and some risk of a passing afternoon shower or
thunderstorm in scattered spots. High temperatures will remain generally
between 90 and 95 degrees for the next five days, although some communities
over the northern part of the state might fail to reach 90 today (it all
depends on the clouds and shower locations).

BENEFICIAL RAIN: Once again, some very generous rainfall amounts across
Alabama yesterday. Some totals included 2.62" at Helena (our weather watcher
Nathan Jones reports it was "one of the strongest storms in years with some
minor flooding"), 2.47" at our SKYCAM site atop the Wingate Inn, on U.S. 280
in the Inverness area, 2.15" at Manchester (Walker County), 1.56" at Black
Creek (northeast of Gadsden in Etowah County), 1.33" at Pell City, 1.31" at
Alabaster, 1.17" at Jemison, 1.16" at Hollins (Clay County), 1.14" at Alpine
(Talladega County), and 0.96" at the ABC 33/40 Studio in Riverchase (near
the intersection of Riverchase Parkway and Valleydale Road). Our SKYCAM site
in downtown Birmingham, atop the Daniel Building on 20th Street, measured
only 0.09".

A flash flood warning was required for Shelby County, some roads were
impassable in the Alabaster/Helena areas between 4:30 and 5:30, while folks
were trying to drive home.

TROPICS: The fourth tropical depression of the season formed late yesterday
in the far eastern Atlantic, about 200 miles south of the Cape Verde
Islands.

The system should become tropical storm Debby today, and is forecast to move
to the northwest over the next five days, winding up at a position about
halfway between the coast of Africa and Bermuda by the weekend. On that
track, the system should turn north, and then northeast in the open Atlantic
Ocean far from any major land area.

Elsewhere, there are no other organized tropical waves of note across the
Atlantic basin.

ROAMING: Mobile received a welcomed 1.62" of rain yesterday, but they still
have a rainfall deficiency of about 19 inches for the year so far. National
hot spot yesterday was Death Valley, CA with 119 degrees.

James Spann jspann@abc3340.com
ABC 33/40 7 Day Planner: http://abc3340.com/weather/7day.hrb
ABC 33/40 Weather Blog: http://www.alabamawx.com

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If You're Searching for Answers, Here are the Questions!"

Pastor Kip Laxson at First United Methodist Church of Alabaster helps tackle
difficult life--questions that Christians struggle with in his series "If
You're Searching for Answers, Here are the Questions!"
during August and September. Here is the schedule for the series:

August 13- If God is Love, why is there so much evil in the world?
August 20- Do miracles really happen in today's world?
August 27- How can I overcome my problems?
September 3- Aren't all religions basically the same?
September 10- I've heard that the Bible is filled with contradictions. Is
that true?
September 17- Are we really living in the "Last Days?"
September 24- Why does God need my resources to build His kingdom?

Alabaster First United Methodist Church offers a contemporary service on
Sundays at 8:30 AM and a traditional service at 11:00 AM. Sunday school is
at 9:45. The church is located at 10903 Highway 119 in Alabaster. For more
info, contact the church at (205) 663-0509.
http://www.alabasterfumc.org/
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TODAY
A mix of sun and clouds. Scattered showers and storms, most numerous south
of Birmingham.
Afternoon High 90
WIND: NW 5-10

WEDNESDAY
Partly to mostly sunny. Only a slight risk of an afternoon shower.
Morning Low 70 Afternoon High 92
WIND: NE 5-10

THURSDAY
A good supply of sunshine. The chance of a shower remains very small.
Morning Low 70 Afternoon High 93
WIND: E 5-10

FRIDAY
Partly sunny. Widely scattered afternoon storms.
Morning Low 72 Afternoon High 95
WIND: S 5-10

SATURDAY
Sunny during the morning; a passing afternoon shower or storm in a few spots
Morning Low 73 Afternoon High 94
WIND: SW 5-10

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