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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Morning Edition For Saturday October 6, 2007
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SECOND ANNUAL CALHOUN COUNTY FALL FEST
October 13 in Anniston

Hundreds of people turned out last year on a beautiful October day to
enjoy a day of celebration of agriculture, regional foods, home-made
goods, and local arts and crafts on McClellan's historic parade
grounds. This year promises to be bigger and better.

In the tradition of a county fair, contests will be held in a variety
of cooking and handcraft divisions, including the chicken-que, canned
goods and baked goods contests, and arts and crafts contests. Contact
the Calhoun County Extension Office at 256-237-1621 for complete
rules and submission guidelines or visit http://www.aces.edu/

Calhoun/ click on the Fall Fest logo and links for contest entry
forms are at the bottom of the page.

Other activities include a cake walk, hay rides, face painting for
children, pumpkin patch, antique tractor show and farm animals.
Local farmers will be selling their autumn produce, and area master
gardeners can help you can dress up your summer weary yard at their
plant sale. Local artists and crafts people will also be selling
their wares at Buckner Market.
Food and beverage vendors will also be on hand, so plan on spending
the whole day. Live music will be provided by the band "Cowboy Up",
led by former "Sawyer Brown" fiddle and guitarist Bobby Randall. Take
Alabama Hwy 21 north through Anniston, and turn right at the new
Lowe's. Follow the signs to historic Buckner.
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...Unseasonably Warm...

My flight from Salt Lake City yesterday was packed with NASCAR fans
heading for Talladega A busy weekend of events here in Central
Alabama. The weather will generally be cooperative. Let's run down
the list.

FOR TODAY: The sixth annual BRAVO! Birmingham Arts Festival will
be held today from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Virginia Samford Theatre and
adjacent Caldwell Park. Antiques at the Gardens, Alabama's premiere
annual antiques show and sale is at the Botanical Gardens. The final
event of the Year of Alabama Arts is the Bluff Park Art Show, one of
the finest art shows in the nation. Up I-20, the Talladega
Superspeedway will host the Mountain Dew 250, the Craftsman Truck
Series race. Skies will start off mostly cloudy this morning with a
persistent layer of stratus at about 2,000 feet and some patchy fog.
Breaks will open in the cloud layer during the morning and
temperatures will warm into the middle and upper 80s. A persistent
easterly flow will continue to pump relatively moist air into the
area. A few widely scattered storms will form during the afternoon,
but most locations will remain dry.

FOOTBALL WEATHER: We can group all three games together. Vanderbilt
plays at Auburn at 11:30, Houston is at Alabama at 2:00 and UAB is at
Mississippi State for an afternoon game. At all three stadiums,
temperatures will peak between in the upper 80s, except possibly 90
at Starkville, during the games. There is little or no chance of rain
at any of the games.

SUNDAY: The UAB-Ford 500 will be Sunday at Talladega. Race fans
will think the race has been moved back to August, with partly cloudy
skies and highs again the middle to upper 80s. The chance of rain
will still be very small.

THE WEEK AHEAD: A very powerful trough of low pressure over the
Rockies that is bringing 3 to 5 inches of snow to Park City, Utah
today will swing out onto the Plains on Monday, closing off into an
upper level low. As it moves into the Great Lakes region it will
push a front toward Alabama. Moisture will be limited, and the
chance for showers and storms will be similarly limited. The chances
will be better than the next couple of days, but no drought busting
rains in sight. The drier air moves in for the later half of the
week, but temperatures will continue on the warm side.

TROPICS: The much ballyhooed low that has been wandering
nomadically across the Gulf moved inland over Southeastern Texas last
night, never amounting to anything in the tropical department. An
area of disturbed weather north of the Greater Antilles will have a
chance to develop over the next couple of days as it moves slowly
west or northwestward. The GFS develops a low and moves it toward
the Bahamas before it is picked up early in the week by the
approaching trough. It should then move harmlessly out to sea to the
northeast.

ON THIS DATE IN 1952: Nashville recorded its earliest snowfall, as a
trace fell on this date.

Bill Murray
bill@integralhospitality.com

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TODAY
Partly sunny. Unseasonably warm. Very slight chance of an isolated
shower or storm.
Afternoon High 87
WIND: E 6-12

SUNDAY
Warm and humid. A very small chance of an afternoon shower.
Morning Low 69 Afternoon High 87
WIND: SE 6-12

MONDAY
Partly sunny. Isolated afternoon showers.
Morning Low 70 Afternoon High 88
WIND: SE 5-10

TUESDAY
Partly sunny. Widely scattered showers and thunderstorms.
Morning Low 70 Afternoon High 86
WIND: SW 5-10

WEDNESDAY
Mostly sunny and less humid.
Morning Low 68 Afternoon High 84
WIND: NW 7-14

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