ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Afternoon Edition For Friday May 12, 2006
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WEEKEND WEATHER CHANGES: Here we go again with some more fast turnaround changes in our weather. Who could complain about todayÂ’s weather, unless you were addicted to swimming. A bit chilly for that, especially with a brisk wind.
A huge and major low pressure area, both at the surface and aloft, were centered over Lake Michigan today. We can point our fingers at that one feature and place blame for our changing weather for the weekend. A series of disturbances aloft will rotate around that big system and cause the air to become more unstable around Alabama. Temperatures aloft over the state will drop considerably.
Also, a cold front will push into the state and move through the Birmingham area at some point Saturday and early Sunday.
The combination of all of this will cause some scattered showers and thunderstorms across Central Alabama, mainly late Saturday and Saturday night.
By midday Sunday, most of the showers should be to our south.
The Storm Prediction Center (SPC) has all of Alabama except the Tennessee Valley under a slight risk of severe weather during that time. We believe that the main threat will be from hail. Even low-top thunderstorms may contain some hail when the atmosphere aloft gets that cold and unsettled.
Our well below normal temperatures will continue for at least the next 5 to 7 days. In times past we have had some blistering hot weather in May. In 1962, record high temperatures were set on 16 of the 31 days, topping out at 98 degrees several days toward the end of the month and 99 on May 28 and 29.
FRIDAY NOTES: That big storm system over the Great Lakes, which looks somewhat like an inland tropical storm on satellite photographs, is causing problems over a wide area. Wind gusts as high as 69 mph were recorded near Muskegon, Michigan and there was snow in Upper Michigan and Northern Wisconsin.
Near Allegan, Michigan, one person was killed and one injured when high winds blew a large tree limb across their passing vehicle...I thought it was interesting that the wind chill dropped to an amazing 137 below zero at Vostok, Antarctica when the temperature fell to 104...some of the lowest temperatures in Alabama this morning included 42 in Hamilton, 43 in DeSoto State Park and Cottondale, 45 in crossville, Cullman and Centreville and 46 in Ft. Payne.
MY TINY CORNER OF THE WORLD: We have received several very interesting e-mails about our Miss Molly stories in the last few days, bringing the total to nearly 3,000 in the last three years. It is so good to know that these stories have touched a lot of people. I will do a special story on one of those early next week. It is another case where I shed some tears even though I am a grown person (many times over) and emotionally strong...Little Miss Molly has almost abandoned her other balls and only wants to play with her two new larger ones that she sometimes loses control of running across the floor...she even stumbles over the ball at times. Life goes on
J.B. Elliott
jbelliott@centurytel.net
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TONIGHT
Mostly clear and cool.
Morning Low 50
WIND: W 4-8
SATURDAY
Clouds increase. Scattered showers and thunderstorms, mainly afternoon and night. Some may contain hail.
Morning Low 50 Afternoon High 76
WIND: W 12-22
SUNDAY
Mostly cloudy, breezy and cool. Morning showers diminishing by afternoon.
Morning Low 53 Afternoon High 66
WIND: NW 12-22
MONDAY
A breezy cool day. A few showers possible.
Morning Low 44 Afternoon High 67
WIND: N 8-16
TUESDAY
Partly sunny. Few, if any, showers.
Morning Low 47 Afternoon High 71
WIND: N 7-14
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