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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Morning Edition For Sunday April 29, 2007
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...Another Fabulous Day...

Today will be another very nice day weather wise across Central
Alabama. Temperatures will warm to around 80 degrees today, with
plenty of sunshine. This means great weather for today's Aaron's 499
NASCAR Nextel Cup race at Talladega.

HIGH PRESSURE IN CONTROL: Surface high pressure is located near Hot
Springs, Arkansas on this Sunday morning. This high will be the
dominant feature in our weather through Tuesday. It will give us
mainly fair, fine weather. Look for daytime highs to be in the 80s.
Lows will be in the 50s. Moisture levels will be on the increase by
Wednesday, but we might make it through hump day with out any
precipitation. That will change by Thursday.

UPPER LOW: Our next weather maker will an upper low that can be
found this morning over Baja California. This low will pinwheel
slowly to the east and northeast, making it to the southern Plains by
Tuesday. It will be working in conjunction with a nice return flow
off the Gulf of Mexico to produce widespread rain and storms over
Texas, but as it heads our way, it will be weakening quickly. In
fact, by late Wednesday, it will barely be recognizable as a closed
low. But, building high pressure over the Great Lakes will push a
cool front southward at the same time. This may cause showers and
storms across the area on Thursday. The GFS went quite bullish on
this system yesterday, so it will be interesting to see if this trend
continues. The wet pattern is forecast to continue into the weekend
and perhaps even into the following week.

ON THIS DATE IN 1927: The City of New Orleans breathed a sigh of
relief as the State of Louisiana allowed the dynamiting of the St.
Bernard levee, creating a spillway for the raging river to follow and
flooding all of Plaquemines and St. Bernard Parish. City leaders had
promised residents of the flooded area full restitution for their
losses, but they would renege on those promises in a travesty of
justice

ON THIS DATE IN 2003: An earthquake measuring 4.9 on the Richter
scale was felt across a wide area of the Southeast. The tremor,
centered just east of Fort Payne, Alabama, rattled parts of Alabama,
Georgia, Tennessee, northeast Mississippi, Kentucky, South Carolina
and North Carolina. The earthquake very nearly was the largest ever
recorded in Alabama, behind an October 1916 tremor that measured 5.1
on the Richter scale. Dishes crashed from shelves, items fell off
walls, bricks fell from chimneys and windows cracked, but damage was
relatively minor. Hundreds of calls came into 911 dispatch centers
across the area within minutes after the earthquake. The event was
not terribly unusual, although rare. Two minor faults like across
parts of northwestern Georgia and earthquakes occur there about every
10-20 years.

Bill Murray

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MAY 23-27
REGIONS PARK (formerly the Hoover Met)
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For Corporate Hospitality Packages, call (205) 262-2832.

Here's your chance to see the best college baseball in the country,
right here in Hoover, Alabama! See the top eight teams in the SEC
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Reserved seats are going fast so be sure to order yours today at
(800) 732-4849 or by logging onto http://www.SECsports.com.
Opportunities still exist to entertain employees, clients or friends in
the Corporate Hospitality suite. Call (205) 262-2832 to inquire
about the various corporate hospitality packages.

Mark your calendars to go to Regions Park (formerly the Hoover Met),
May 23-27 to see some big time college baseball.

The 2007 SEC Baseball Tournament. It Doesn't Get Any Better!
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TODAY
Sunny and warm.
Afternoon High 82
WIND: N 5-10

MONDAY
Mostly sunny skies.
Morning Low 54 Afternoon High 84
WIND: W 5-10

TUESDAY
Partly cloudy.
Morning Low 57 Afternoon High 85
WIND: S 5-10

WEDNESDAY
Partly sunny. .
Morning Low 58 Afternoon High 82
WIND: S 6-12

THURSDAY
A good chance of showers and perhaps storms.
Morning Low 59 Afternoon High 79
WIND: SW 6-12

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