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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Afternoon Edition For Friday April 20, 2007

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CONNECT 3 ON 3 BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
APRIL 28 IN HOOVER

Connect 3 on 3 Basketball Tournament is coming to Hoover on Saturday,
April 28. This is a competitive tournament for guys and girls ages
middle school through adults. Games will be played on the parking lot
of Hunter Street Baptist Church, 2600 John Hawkins Parkway in Hoover.
Five eligible players will have a chance at the $10,000 Hot Shot
competition!
Players, invite family and friends to the Family Fun Zone, for games,
face painting, food, music and more!
Register today at

http://www.connect3on3.com/HunterStreet

Connect 3 on 3 is sponsored by Hunter Street Baptist Church, WJOX
100.5 FM, Buffalo Rock, The Stewart Organization, ABC 33/40, Bruce
Business Products, The American Red Cross, Jason's Deli and Princeton
Hoover Medical.
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NO HOPE FOR RAIN UNTIL LATER NEXT WEEK: The weather across Alabama
this weekend is going to be very nice. Do not like to use that word
nice when we are crying for rain. On the front page of The Birmingham
News this morning, staff writer Jeff Hansen has a thorough story
about the Alabama drought and it is now listed as extreme from the
general area around Birmingham into NE Alabama. The National Weather
Service has five categories of drought. The worst is called exceptional.

We might as well await our turn. Morning model runs keep us dry all
the way through the weekend. There are increasing indications we will
have a good chance of showers and thunderstorms by next Thursday. We
may get some good rain amounts, but we cannot assume that until the
event gets a little closer.

Meanwhile, we can enjoy some pleasantly cool nights and some sunny
mild days with the relative humidity remaining lower than usual for
April. Our high temperatures will be close to 80 into the middle of
next week. There was some scattered light frost again this morning at
Black Creek in NE Etowah County with a low of 35. Light frost has
occurred on four of the last five mornings and nine of the last 13
mornings. It was 36 in Cullman and Ft. Payne and 38 in Crossville.

APRIL CAN BE FEROCIOUS: April has had a long history of producing
some vicious tornadoes in Alabama. Today happens to be an anniversary
of one of those events. It was on April 20, 1920 that powerful
tornadoes struck in Mississippi and Alabama. A most unusual event
occurred during the tornadoes. A young farmer near Hackleburg, in
Marion County, was fatally wounded by his own shotgun when the
tornado blew it off the wall and it discharged. In the Monthly
Weather Review, an extensive summary of the storms by meteorologist
P. H. Smyth from the Weather Bureau in Montgomery, indicated that
about 89 persons were killed and about 500 injured in the morning
tornadoes. Most of the deaths were in Marion and Franklin Counties.
At last two strong tornadoes moved NE in nearly parallel tracks about
40 miles apart. The total path length was estimated at 180 miles and
parts of 10 counties were affected. It was the worst outbreak in the
state in history up until that time. The woodlands looked like a
lawnmower had moved through.

THE WORLD OF WEATHER: During those 1920 tornadoes, it got so dark
in downtown Meridian that people could hardly recognize each other in
the middle of the day. Tuscaloosa got over 3 inches of rain during
that event. How about Saranac Lake, New York? They have had a
terrific winter and tons of snow. Their high is expected to be an
amazing 70 by Sunday.

MY TINY CORNER OF THE WORLD: Sometimes man adds to the beauty of
nature. Walking my little girl this morning, we counted 11 jet
contrails. A number of them crossed and formed what appeared to be a
huge asterisk in the sky. Little Miss Molly has been upset all
morning, because kids are playing in the cul-de-sac out front and she
cannot go out and play with them. She saw two big dogs this morning
that we were not familiar with, but they ran away before Molly could
play with them. Miss Molly will always be a little puppy and I am
glad. Life goes on......

J.B. Elliott
jb.elliott@theweathercompany.com

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ABC 33/40 Weather Blog:

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HEART GALLERY ALABAMA
GOLF CLASSIC

The Heart Gallery Alabama Golf Classic, being held on May 14, 2007,
at Pinetree Country Club, is a principal fundraiser to support the work
of Heart Gallery Alabama

The Heart Gallery Alabama Golf Classic raises money to support the work
of Heart Gallery Alabama, a non-profit organization that creates
photography
exhibits, shown around the state, to publicize the waiting children in
the foster care system of Alabama. We seek to help all of these
children find
their "forever families".

The mission of Heart Gallery Alabama is to raise awareness of
adoption and
foster parenting in the state of Alabama. There are currently hundreds
of children in our communities who are waiting for a family to call
their own.

Come out for a day of great golf, awards, prizes, lunch, and fun, all
for a cause you can be proud to support! For more information, call
(205) 244-1115 or
http://www.heartgallery.golfreg.com
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TONIGHT
Clear and cool.
Overnight Low 48
WIND: E 3-6

SATURDAY
Mostly sunny. A mild afternoon.
Morning Low 48 Afternoon 77
WIND: SE 6-12

SUNDAY
Mostly sunny.
Morning Low 50 Afternoon High 80
WIND: SE 7-14

MONDAY
Mostly sunny.
Morning Low 53 Afternoon High 80
WIND: S 6-12

TUESDAY
Partly sunny.
Morning Low 56 Afternoon High 81
WIND: S7-14

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