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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Afternoon Edition For Sunday August 5th, 2007
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...Hot Week Ahead...

The mercury was edging toward the century mark across parts of Central
Alabama this afternoon. We will be flirting with the century mark
over the next six days or so as a stifling upper level high pressure
system centers itself over the Deep South, including Alabama. It is a
reasonable expectation to think that we will see Heat Advisories
issued for the excessive heat here in Alabama over the next few days.
The heat advisory criteria here is when two days with afternoon heat
indices are expected to reach 110F and overnight lows stay above 75F.
It is time to start thinking about any neighbors, friends or relatives
who may reside in a non-airconditioned home.

CODE ORANGE AIR QUALITY ALERT: Hey! What ever happened to Air
Stagnation Advisories? You don't see those anymore. If we still had
them around, we would be under one now. What we are under is a Code
Orange Air Quality Alert for the foreseeable future. Hope fully we
will avoid going Code Red at some point over the next few days. The
air will be unhealthy for sensitive individuals under the Code Orange
Alert, with ozone the primary pollutant.

THE WEEK AHEAD: Today looks a lot like yesterday on the radar and
satellite. Tomorrow should look a lot like today. I had thought that
we might see an increased chance of storms on Monday based on some
model data, but that idea seems to have vaporized with this morning's
run. In fact, Tuesday looks similar. So, let's call for sunny, hazy
morning, partly cloudy afternoon with hot temperatures and isolated
storms developing by the lunch hour through Tuesday. I think the high
is established enough to suppress storm development by Wednesday and
Thursday, meaning rain chances will be almost nil. By Friday, there
may be enough lift to produce widely scattered storms. The morning
run of the GFS is more bullish on the idea of an East Coast trough by
next weekend. This means that we might see an approaching front by
Saturday and Sunday. Along with that, our shower and storm chances
should be on the rise, hopefully.

ON THIS DATE IN 1783: The Mount Asama volcano in Japan erupted
violently, blowing the top off of the mountain and sending huge
amounts of ash into the atmosphere. Over 1000 villagers were killed
by lava, steam, moiling mud and superheated gases as its pyroclastic
flow engulfed the villages on the northern flanks of the mountain.
Sunlight was blocked over northern Japan for several months, resulting
in a famine that killed 1.4 million Japanese. The Winter of 1783-84
was remarkably cold in the Eastern United States, as noticed by
Benjamin Franklin from Philadelphia.

Although he did not know of the eruption, he did hypothesize that the
cold temperatures were the result of a fog of dust in the atmosphere
over Europe and North America. The cold was so intense that sleds
could cross the Long Island Sound and the harbor at New York was
frozen for 10 days.

Bill Murray
bill@integralhospitality.com

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TONIGHT
Isolated storms diminish. A warm, muggy overnight.
Overnight Low 74
WIND: Light

MONDAY
Partly cloudy, hot and very humid. Small chance of a shower or storm.
Heat indices near danger level.
Morning Low 78 Afternoon High 98
WIND: W 5-10

TUESDAY
Partly cloudy, hazy and very hot. Tiny chance of a shower or storm.
Heat indices near danger level.
Morning Low 77 Afternoon High 98
WIND: W 5-10

WEDNESDAY
Partly cloudy, hazy and dangerously hot.
Morning Low 78 Afternoon High 99
WIND: NW 5-10

THURSDAY
Partly cloudy. Excessive heat.
Morning Low 78 Afternoon High 99
WIND: NW 5-10

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