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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Morning Edition For Sunday September 24, 2006
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...Rain and Storms Today...

A line of thunderstorms sagged into Northwest Alabama during the evening
hours and its progress slowed considerably. The result was some heavy
rainfall amounts over the northwestern quarter of the state. Two to four
inch amounts were widespread according to National Weather Service Doppler
radar.

OUR WEATHER: Our slow moving cold front is still to the west of Alabama
this morning. It will continue pushing southeastward today. This will
result in continued showers and storms gradually ending from the west during
the day. Rain should be confined to southeastern sections by early
afternoon.

Winds will shift around to the west and northwest and skies will begin to
clear behind the front. Under clearing skies tonight, good radiational
cooling will combine with leftover ground moisture to produce low clouds and
fog. This will give a gray start to Monday, but sunshine will return fairly
quickly during the day.

REST OF THE WEEK: High pressure will build into Alabama behind the cold
front. Tuesday morning will dawn clear and cool, with lows generally in the
low 50s. A few of the normally cooler locations will see forties by Tuesday
morning. Sunny conditions will be with us still on Wednesday. By
Thursday, an approaching weather system will bring increasing shower and
thunderstorm chances to Alabama. They will be most likely during the
overnight Thursday into early Friday morning.

ONEONTA DAMAGE: The National Weather Service sent a survey team to Oneonta
to ascertain the F rating of the tornado damage left by Friday night's storm
in Blount County. They discovered that there were three actual tornado
paths. Each caused F2 damage.

IN THE TROPICS: Helene is in transition this morning from a tropical to an
extratropical system. It still has hurricane force winds, and may for the
next 24 hours. It is moving out to the east northeast across the Central
Atlantic. It may bring gale force winds to the Azores. A low pressure
system affiliated with a tropical wave over one thousand miles west of the
Cape Verde islands continues to show signs of increasing organization and a
tropical depression may form during the next day or so. The system should
remain over the open Atlantic.

ONE YEAR AGO TODAY: Hurricane Rita made landfall around 2:30 a.m. CDT just
east of the Louisiana/Texas border between Sabine Pass and Johnson's Bayou
as a Category Two storm with top winds of 120 mph. A shadow of its former
Cat 5 self, the storm still brought a devastating storm surge to the coast
of Southwest Louisiana and Southeast Texas. Houston dodged a bullet, as over
2.5 million residents evacuated in advance of the hurricane.

Bill Murray bill.murray@theweathercompany.com

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TODAY
Showers and thunderstorms move slowly to the southeast. Heavy rainfall
possible.
Afternoon High 79
WIND: W 8-16

MONDAY
Morning clouds giving way to clearing skies.
Morning Low 57 Afternoon High 78
WIND: N 6-12

TUESDAY
A pleasant start with lots of sunny skies.
Morning Low 52 Afternoon High 81
WIND: W 6-12

WEDNESDAY
Sunny skies.
Morning Low 56 Afternoon High 82
WIND: SW 5-10

THURSDAY
Increasing clouds with a chance of a shower or storm. A good chance of
storms overnight.
Morning Low 59 Afternoon High 84
WIND: W 5-10

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