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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Afternoon Edition For Saturday March 17, 2007
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....Warm Up Ahead...

It was a chilly morning across the area this morning. Temperatures
were in the lower and middle 30s across much of the area, with a few
of the normally colder locations going below freezing. Readings were
in the 40s at noon across much of the Tennessee Valley and Northeast
Alabama, a bit colder than was expected. Most areas will top out in
the lower and middle 50s across Central Alabama.

REMAINDER OF WEEKEND: Skies will be partly cloudy tonight as some
high clouds move across the region in a northwesterly flow. The clouds
may help to keep temperatures up a bit, but the clouds are going to be
high in the atmosphere, so the blanketing effect will not be as great.
Look for readings around or just above freezing tonight with a few
places colder. Tomorrow looks cool again, with highs in the 60 degree
range along with patchy high clouds at times.

THE WEEK AHEAD: Things will be warming back up by Monday as a
southerly flow develops over Alabama. Temperatures will edge back up
to near 70 degrees. Skies should be partly cloudy Monday and Tuesday.
By late on Tuesday, a developing storm system to the west of Alabama
will be trying to edge into the area. But it appears that stubborn
high pressure to our east will keep it at bay. We might see a few
showers in Central Alabama on Wednesday. The front should go back
north as a warm front and keep us in a mild, moist regime after
Wednesday. A big upper low to our west will produce showers and
storms that will reach us finally late on Saturday. Look for another
storm system right before the end of the month.

ON THIS DATE IN 1993: Denver's Stapleton Airport picked up 31.8
inches of snow from a tremendous blizzard that ended a significant
drought across Wyoming and Colorado. It was the most snow from a
single storm in the Mile High City since 1913. The 19 inches that
fell at DIA tore the terminal's roof.

BANNING THE WORD TORNADO: In the 1880s, U.S. Army Signal Corps
Officer John P. Finley developed generalized forecasts. The country
was divided into grid sections and daily forecasts issued as to
whether tornadoes were likely. The Signal Corps handled weather
forecasting for the USA then. But in 1886 the Army ended Finley's
program and banned the word "tornado" from forecasts because "the harm
done by a (tornado) prediction would eventually be greater than that
which results form the tornado itself." The thinking was that people
would be trampled in the panic if they heard a tornado was possible.
The ban stayed in place after the Weather Bureau, now the National
Weather Service, took over forecasting from the Army. On March 20,
1948, a destructive tornado at Tinker AFB in Oklahoma spurred Air
Force meteorologists to begin working on ways to forecast twisters.
The Weather Bureau also began looking for ways to alert the public
about tornadoes. They established the Severe Local Storm Warning
Center, which is now the Storm Prediction Center. The ban on the word
"tornado" fell on March 17, 1952 when the new center issued its first
tornado "forecast" (later to be called "tornado watches.)

Bill Murray
billmurray@worldnet.att.net

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TONIGHT
Lots of sun. Patchy high clouds.
Overnight Low 57
WIND: N 10-20

SUNDAY
Generally sunny. Some high clouds.
Morning Low 34 Afternoon High 64
WIND: S 8-16

MONDAY
Mix of clouds and sun. Pleasantly mild.
Morning Low 43 Afternoon High 72
WIND: S 8-16

TUESDAY
Partly sunny and mild.
Morning Low 51 Afternoon High 74
WIND: S 5-10

WEDNESDAY
Breezy and warm with a chance of a shower or storm.
Morning Low 53 Afternoon High 76
WIND: S 10-20

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