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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Afternoon Edition For Saturday August 11th, 2007
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UNASHAMED!

Wouldn't it be awful to be ashamed of the most important things in our lives?

Many of us struggle when it comes to standing up for what we believe in.
Like our faith. There are times for all of us when we are tempted to be
ashamed of our faith. Or we downplay our faith so we won't offend someone.

Wouldn't it be great to live unashamed of our faith? Discover what it means
to live unashamed of the gospel and of Jesus Christ in a new sermon series
at Hunter Street Baptist Church in Hoover beginning Sunday, August 12.
Worship and Sunday School hours are 8:05, 9:30 and 10:45 a.m.

Hunter Street Baptist Church
2600 John Hawkins Parkway in Hoover
205.985.7295 or

http://www.hunterstreet.org
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...Meteor Watch...

The Perseid Meteor Shower is underway right now. It will peak during
the late night and early morning hours of Sunday night and Monday
morning. We will benefit from a new moon as we view the shooting
stars. For best results, get away from city lights. We could see one
meteor per minute during the peak times. The meteors are particles of
dust ejected from the comet Swift-Tuttle which are burning up about 80
miles overhead as we pass through the debris field. These small
particles, the size of sand grains, up to that of a pea, hit our
atmosphere going 37 miles per second. The streak is white hot
superheated air. The meteors appear to be originating from the
constellation Perseus, hence the name.

MERCURY WATCH: Monitoring the thermometer this morning as a blazing
sun in blue skies heats things up. Conditions were actually kind of
nice this morning, with temperatures in the lower 70s instead of the
middle and upper 80s. Readings were running about the same or a
little warmer than yesterday, when Birmingham peaked at 102F before an
early afternoon storm. Without the storm, how high would it have
gone? We may find out today.

MOVING FORWARD: The heat ridge builds back across the southern United
States as we head into the coming week. This means more temperatures
around the century mark. The high may contract toward the end of the
week, but any relief will be minor, perhaps a few degrees. Convection
will be limited with the strong ridge of high pressure over the area.

TROPICS: An area of disturbed weather associated with a tropical wave
over the northwestern Caribbean remains disorganized this morning.
One of the global prediction models has been bullish on developing a
tropical depression near Cuba, then sending it westward across the
Gulf of Mexico toward Texas. That possibility is still very real. A
strong tropical wave has moved off the western coast of Africa. It is
accompanied by intense convection this morning. There are indications
that this system will become a tropical depression over the weekend or
early next week as it moves westward. By midweek, we will be tracking
a Cape Verde hurricane as it approaches the islands of the Caribbean.
By next weekend, this could be a powerful hurricane threatening t he
Carolinas. Hurricane Flossie in the eastern Pacific may well threaten
Hawaii by
midweek.

ON THIS DATE IN 1999: Rare Utah tornado struck the downtown area of
Salt Lake City during the lunch hour, leaving one person dead and over
100 injured. The fatality was the first tornado death in Utah in
recorded history. The tornado, rated as an F2, caused extensive
damage to a convention tent adjacent to the Salt Palace, a Wyndham
hotel and the Delta Center. Only four F2 tornadoes have been recorded
in Utah history. 1999 was a memorable year for tornadoes since four
major metropolitan areas were struck, including Oklahoma City, Little
Rock, Cincinnati and Salt Lake City.

Bill Murray
bill@integralhospitality.com

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TONIGHT
Mostly sunny and very hot. A little less humid.
Overnight Low 74
WIND: N 5-10

SUNDAY
Continued sunny and very hot.
Morning Low 76 Afternoon High 100
WIND: E 5-10

MONDAY
Excessive heat under sunny skies.
Morning Low 75 Afternoon High 101
WIND: N 5-10

TUESDAY
Very hot. Dangerous heat continues.
Morning Low 75 Afternoon High 103
WIND: N 5-10

WEDNESDAY
Partly cloudy, hot and humid.
Morning Low 75 Afternoon High 100
WIND: S 5-10

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