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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Morning Edition For Friday August 3, 2007
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...Code Orange Air Quality Alert Today...

The Alabama Partners for Clean Air have posted a Code Orange Air
Quality Alert for today for Jefferson and Shelby Counties. The
offending pollutant is particulates. We used to call it smog. I
guess we still cause it haze. But it is dangerous to people with
sensitive lungs. Some actions that you can take today to help the
situations: 1. carpool or take public transportation 2. Combine
errands into one trip 3. Postpone unnecessary travel. 4. Avoid drive
thru windows to limit idling your engine. 5..Mow the lawn another
day.

OUR FORECAST: I think that we meteorologists have been guilty of
wishful thinking of late. The GFS model had been persistently
predicting that a decent warm core or tropical type low would develop
over the northern Gulf of Mexico. It then moved it inland to the
northeast, spreading rain over parts of the Deep South. The hope has
been that the low could move slowly, spreading some solid rains over
drought stricken sections of Alabama. It is looking like that
situation is less and less likely. No surprise there. High
pressure will remain in control of Alabama's weather for much of the
next ten days. In fact, by next week, an upper level ridge of high
pressure will intensify over the Deep South and we will likely see
some of the hottest weather we have seen in a while. Readings over
the century mark may well be commonplace next week.

TROPICS: A strong tropical wave moving through the Caribbean has been
showing a lot more organization of late. Air Force reconnaissance
could not find a closed circulation yesterday, but there is still
opportunity for the system to become a tropical depression as it
continues to move westward. Another plane is scheduled to investigate
later today.

ON THIS DATE IN 1955: Issac Monroe Cline died on this date. Cline
was the Chief Meteorologist at the U.S. Weather Bureau Office in
Galveston Texas on September 8, 1900 as the infamous Galveston
Hurricane was coming ashore nearly unannounced. Cline lost his wife,
but survived with his three daughters floating atop debris carried on
the 15 foot storm surge that inundated Galveston Island that night.
6000 people died, making it the deadliest natural disaster in United
States history.

REMEMBERING ERIN: On this date in 1955, Hurricane Erin was nearing
the coast of the Florida Panhandle. The hurricane had emerged into
the Gulf Mexico the previous day after crossing the Florida Peninsula.
By early morning, Erin's sustained winds reached 100mph in a small
area near its center. A 98-mph wind gust was observed at Mary Esther
Field and Fort Walton Beach, Florida. The storm came ashore near
Pensacola, Florida later that morning causing six fatalities and an
estimated $700 million damage. The barrier island stretching from
Pensacola Beach to Navarre Beach absorbed the brunt of the storm as it
came ashore. Sustained winds of 94 mph and gusts up to 103 mph were
measured at Pensacola during the height of the storm.

Bill Murray
bill@integralhospitality.com

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Like our faith. There are times for all of us when we are tempted to be
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2600 John Hawkins Parkway in Hoover
205.985.7295 or

http://www.hunterstreet.org
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TODAY
Partly cloudy and hot.
Afternoon High 96
WIND: NE 5-10

SATURDAY
Partly sunny and hot. Only a small chance of an afternoon shower or
thunderstorm.
Morning Low 72 Afternoon High 95
WIND: SE 6-12

SUNDAY
Partly cloudy and hot. A slight chance of a shower or thunderstorm.
Morning Low 73 Afternoon High 95
WIND: S 5-10

MONDAY
A mix of clouds and sun. A slight chance of a shower or thunderstorm.
Morning Low 74 Afternoon High 96
WIND: S 5-10

TUESDAY
Partly sunny and dangerously hot with a chance of showers and storms.
Morning Low 74 Afternoon High 97
WIND: SE 5-10

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