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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Afternoon Edition For Sunday May 27, 2007
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...Nice Holiday Weekend...

Partly cloudy skies are mixed with a good bit of smoke and haze across
Alabama this afternoon. But there is plenty of sunshine and warm
temperatures to go around. If the air quality were only better.

CODE ORANGE AIR QUALITY ALERT TODAY: We are under a Code Orange Air
Quality Alert today thanks to particulates from the South Georgia
wildfires and general summer haze that is building up under high
pressure over the area.

PROSPECTS FOR RAINFALL: Well, they are not very good through
Thursday. We should remain high and dry through tomorrow. Then by
Tuesday, we will see isolated afternoon and evening thunderstorms
popping back up starting on Tuesday, especially over western sections,
and then across the area on Wednesday and Thursday. They will provide
only very localized, short term relief to our moisture needs. Late in
the week, an upper trough will be moving east from the Plains states.
We have been expecting it to bring us a good chance of showers and
storms on Friday, but the morning run of the GFS holds it off until
Sunday. We will keep the forecast the same for now and await the
results of future model runs. But the encouraging sign is that the
GFS continues to show a major pattern change starting next weekend,
with a big trough of low pressure setting up over the eastern United
States. This, along with an influx of lots of Gulf and Caribbean
moisture into the Southeast could spell some relief from our drought
conditions.

NATIONAL HIGHLIGHTS: Severe weather is limited to three small pockets
across the country today. One is over western New York and
Pennsylvania, where a severe thunderstorm watch is out this afternoon.
The other two are over Montana and western Nebraska. No severe
weather reports as of early afternoon. The ring of fire around the
high pressure ridge over the western Atlantic means a flash flood
threat across the eastern half of Texas up into Oklahoma. Coastal
flood watches were in effect for parts of Southeast Louisiana and
southern Mississippi as persistent southeasterly winds have piled
water up against the shoreline. Fortunately, the tides are subsiding
this afternoon and the watches were cancelled.

RED LETTER DAY: For many Alabamians, the date May 27, 1973 is
burnished in their memories
as a red letter day in the state's weather history. A strong late
Spring storm produced the longest track tornado in the state's
history. That storm struck the Bibb County town of Brent. More about
it in today's Weather Blog.

ON THIS DATE IN 2002: When you think about the effects of a drought,
you mostly think about farmers. But other segments are affected also.
River rafting operations in Southwest Colorado were suffering as the
worst drought in 50 years was leaving rivers at July or August levels
and forcing operators to cancel rafting trips. Average snowpacks
across the region were at 9 percent of normal and seasonal
precipitation levels were less than 50 percent of normal. The Animas
River, one of the few undammed rivers in the country, had a streamflow
of less than 500 cubic feet per second. One year earlier, during a
good rafting season, streamflows were at 3000 cfs.

Bill Murray
bill@integralhospitality.com

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TODAY
Sunny and warm. Hazy, with smoke reducing visibility until early afternoon.
Afternoon High 87
WIND: Light

MONDAY
Mostly sunny, but hazy.
Morning Low 63 Afternoon High 86
WIND: SE 5-10

TUESDAY
Partly cloudy. Tiny chance of an afternoon shower or storm.
Morning Low 64 Afternoon High 85
WIND: S 5-10

WEDNESDAY
Partly cloudy. A very isolated shower or storm possible during PM.
Morning Low 65 Afternoon High 86
WIND: S 6-12

THURSDAY
Mix of clouds, some sun. Chance of an afternoon or evening shower or storm.
Morning Low 62 Afternoon High 83
WIND: SE 6-12

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