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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Afternoon Edition For Thursday October 25, 2007

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ALABAMA DISCUSSION: And we want to talk about cool weather at night,
comfortable afternoons and sunny, autumn-like weather for the
weekend. Before Saturday gets here, we will see some more
intermittent showers tonight and a bit of scattered light rain Friday
morning before the clouds decide to get out of here. Our generous
rains over the last couple of days or so can be credited almost
directly to that cold core upper low-pressure area. This morning it
was centered over NW Alabama near Hamilton. It seemed to be tracking
back toward the NW over Northern Mississippi this afternoon. It will
eventually reach SE Missouri and curve NE into the Midwest and
disappear from the weather map. Cold core lows always bring some
interesting weather. With cold temperatures aloft and even near
freezing down as low as 6,000 feet, I believe we could have seen a
few wet snowflakes if temperatures near the surface had been about 7
degrees cooler this morning.

After the lingering patchy light rain moves out Friday morning, we
look for clearing weather and then mostly sunshine Saturday, Sunday
and possibly well into next week. It looks like we should stay dry
until at least late Wednesday and Thursday next week.

Some nice additional rain amounts yesterday and overnight. This was a
God-send, because it kept the topsoil very moist with no chance to
dry out. The cool temperatures and cloud cover could not have been
more timely. Haleyville, Hamilton and Bankhead National Forest got
over an inch of additional rain in the last 24 hours and Huntsville
received almost 1 inch.

FOOTBALL WEATHER: For the Magic City Classic at Legion Field in
Birmingham Saturday afternoon, it should be sunshine, low humidity
with about 70 at kick off lowering to about 62 at the end of the
game. Old Miss will be at Auburn for a late afternoon kick off.
Clear, about 68 at kick off and about 57 at the end of the game.
Excellent weather for Friday night high school games. Around 60 at
kick off, low 50s later in the game.

OUR WORLD OF WEATHER: Not enough adjectives to describe the horror
of the Southern California wildfires and now there may be a couple of
arsonists involved. How tragic! More of a westerly flow now than
those powerful down canyon Santa Ana winds. During the height of the
strong winds, a gust of 111 mph was recorded at Laguna Peak. The
relative humidity dropped as low as 4% at some of the Southern
California weather stations. I fear something else. With a huge chunk
of the landscape completely burned over, if a big rain event comes
into Southern California later this fall or even this winter, major
mudslides will be the order of the day. Would you believe a low of 39
this morning at Georgetown in South Georgia and at Crestview in North
Florida. They did not have an all-night cloud cover. Coldest in the
lower 48 was 16 at Alamosa in the deep San Luis Valley of Southern
Colorado.

MY TINY CORNER OF THE WORLD: There is a lot of responsibility
attached to pet ownership. The little creatures are totally innocent
and must depend on us for everything they get including lots of
loving. Unfortunately there are sad times. A great friend in Oneonta
had to have her dog put down a few days ago and I cannot imagine the
pain. Also, a cousin at Sylva, North Carolina had a beloved cat named
Smoky. They called in Moky for short. About a week ago, neighbours
dogs who had never run loose before did get loose and killed Moky. It
was just like losing a member of their family. It would kill me if
that happened to Molly. We walked this morning. Perfect short-sleeve
weather for me, but neighbours were sporting sweaters and jackets.
Life goes on....

J.B. Elliott
jb.elliott@theweathercompany.com

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TONIGHT
Mostly cloudy and cool. A chance of showers, mainly through the evening.
Overnight Low 48
WIND: S 4-6

FRIDAY
A slight chance of rain early, then gradual clearing.
Morning Low 48 Afternoon 64
WIND: SW 6-12

SATURDAY
Mostly sunny with a cool morning.
Morning Low 45 Afternoon High 70
WIND: NW 5-10

SUNDAY
Sunny. Another cool early morning.
Morning Low 48 Afternoon High 70
WIND: N 6-12

MONDAY
Mostly sunny.
Morning Low 49 Afternoon High 69
WIND: NE 5-10

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