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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Morning Edition For Monday August 27, 2007
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...August Winding Down...
As August winds down here in Birmingham and Central Alabama, it will
be remembered as one of our hottest times ever. In fact, it may end
up being the hottest August ever in Birmingham. From the fabulous
site maintained by the NWS and the State Climatologist, I can see
that the hottest August until now as measured by average high
temperature is 1995, when the average high in August was a toasty
96.29F. August 2007 is currently eating that record for lunch, with
an average high through Saturday of 99.88F. If you extrapolate out
the expected highs through the 31st, we should finish the month with
an average high of 98.35F by my calculations. So by that measure, it
will be the hottest August, and most likely by the proper calculation
of highest average mean temperature. If It is going to be hot, least
at least have a record to show for it. We should make a t-shirt…

RELIEF IN SIGHT: I am so ready for the heat to be gone. Astoria,
Oregon is looking good to me right now. Very thankful for the
showers that some folks got over the weekend. Ended up ahead of
normal for the month in rainfall at the airport with three straight
days of rain Friday, Saturday and yesterday. Scattered storms on the
agenda again today and Wednesday. By Thursday, a trough sets up shop
over the East Coast, eroding the ridge and shoving the axis of high
pressure back to the west. This could allow some cooler air to slide
down this way for the weekend. Unfortunately, it would mean some
drier air, but at least we would have cooler going for us. In the
long range, it looks like we could see a big weather maker late in
the Labor Day week with a strong trough and chances for heavy rain
and storms.

TROPICS: The tropical Atlantic is still eerily quiet here in late
August. We are hurtling toward the peak of hurricane season and
there are no major storms in sight. A disturbance over the
southwestern Gulf has run out of time as it moves inland over Old
Mexico. A tropical wave over the Central Caribbean could make a
depression as it moves toward Honduras and Nicaragua, but it is
encountering a good bit of wind shear. The various global models try
to scare something up either east of North Carolina are over the open
Atlantic over the next week. We will just have to wait and see.

ON THIS DATE IN 1893: The Sea Islands Hurricane of 1893 came ashore
on the Sea Islands near Beaufort, SC. This was the first of three
major hurricanes to affect the United States between August and
October and one of six hurricanes to hit the U.S. coast that year.
Many communities along the South Carolina coast were inundated by the
stom surge. Death toll estimates range between 2000 and 2500.
30,000 people were left homeless. Messages about the hurricane as
it passed the Bahamas were sent by cable to the mainland, but
forecasters had no idea where it would go. The Savannah newspaper
carried a small story about the hurricane the day before it struck
but there were no preparations and there was no telegraph to the low-
lying islands. The Hurricane Season of 1893 was the second most
deadly in United States history, with two of the six hurricanes that
made landfall in the U.S. that year killing 2000 people apiece.

Bill Murray
bill@integralhospitality.com

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TODAY
Partly cloudy with scattered thunderstorms developing during the
afternoon.
Afternoon High 94
WIND: SE 5-10

TUESDAY
Partly cloudy. Thunderstorms a little more numerous.
Morning Low 74 Afternoon High 92
WIND: SE 5-10

WEDNESDAY
Partly cloudy start. Then a fairly good chance of afternoon and
evening storms.
Morning Low 74 Afternoon High 92
WIND: SE 5-10

THURSDAY
Partly sunny with a chance of showers and storms.
Morning Low 70 Afternoon High 92
WIND: SE 5-10

FRIDAY
Partly cloudy. A slight chance of a storm.
Morning Low 71 Afternoon High 91
WIND: NE 5-10

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