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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Afternoon Edition For Friday April 11, 2008
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TENTH ANNIVERSARY LEBANESE FOOD AND
CULTURAL FESTIVAL
Saint Elias Maronite Catholic Church
April 11-12, 2008 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.

Get Homemade Lebanese Food Lunch and Dinner April 11-12
Easy Friday Lunch -- Fast Service in/out in minutes -- Take out or
dine in. For really fast service come early or late. We serve food
the whole day. You can also have food delivered to your place of
business for Friday lunch. Click on our website below for a full menu
and further details.

New Church cook book $25 at St. Elias Booth. Expanded Silent Auction
and Live Band from New York, back by popular demand, each evening.
Shuttle service Friday and Saturday night from 5-9 from Epic School
parking lot. Follow the signs.

All this and there is No Admission Charge. 25% of all proceeds go to
charities other than St. Elias Church.

FOR MORE INFO AND A COMPLETE MENU, VISIT
http://www.stelias.org/festival_2008.html
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...Second Stormy Friday In A Row...

CHANCE OF FROST BY TUESDAY MORNING: Remember last
Friday when it seemed like every thunderstorm in the world had
congregated here in Alabama and most of them were severe? Some
counties came under Severe Thunderstorm Warnings or even Tornado
Warnings time and time again.

Fast forward to this Friday. Here we go again. A number
of Severe Thunderstorm Warnings were issued this afternoon in NW
Alabama. Tornado Warnings were also issued for parts of Lamar, Marion,
Winston, Walker and Cullman Counties. A Tornado Watch was posted for
18 NW Alabama counties until 4:00 p.m. As we write this around 2:00
p.m., we think there is a good chance that a watch of some type will
be extended eastward into other parts of East and South Alabama later.
Dangerous weather may reach the Birmingham area after midafternoon.

Meanwhile, off to the west, cooler air is on the way. In
fact, before the event is over, we may want to call it colder air.
Showers and thunderstorms will continue into the evening diminishing
later tonight as it turns cooler. All the showers should end Saturday
morning and west winds of 12-25 mph will bring in much cooler air. By
Sunday morning, temperatures will be in the upper 30s with highs on
Sunday only about 55 with some scattered light rain.

We want to say this with a whisper, but there is actually
a slight chance of a few snowflakes over NE Alabama late Sunday night
or early Monday morning.

FROST CONCERNS: If we have frost, it will be on Tuesday
morning. By that time, the sky will be clear with little or no wind
and a high-pressure area centered over us. We are calling for low
temperatures around freezing across Central Alabama, but some of the
colder valleys could have upper 20s, especially further north.

CLEANING OFF MY DESK: Raging blizzard conditions over
the Upper Midwest and part of the Northern Plains today…especially
hard hit was Duluth on the west tip of Lake Superior in NE Minnesota…
they had whiteout conditions with winds as high as 62 mph…along the
Lake Superior shore in the Duluth area, waves were as high as 16 feet
and winds gusting near 60…21 inches of snow on the ground at Upson,
Wisconsin and 16 inches at Orr, Minnesota…Guthrie, Oklahoma 5.38
inches of rain from this last violent storm system.

MY TINY CORNER OF THE WORLD: 2:22 p.m. Little Miss Molly
strolls into my office and asked me to let her sit on my desk. She
loves to sit there looking out the large window. Meanwhile, she was
wagging her tail and sweeping off the keyboard on my Apple computer.
2:26 p.m. She decided to plop down and take a nap. 2:29 p.m. She
thought she heard a slight noise, stood up and there was her little
boyfriend, the 1-year old Yorkie Dino passing by with his grandad. I
have never seen her snap to attention and cry so much, because she
wanted to go play with him. We went outside and they played so
vigorously that Molly finally plopped down in the grass to get some
rest. Just another little slice of time with a precious little dog.
Too bad us humans cannot enjoy simple things. Life goes on.

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

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TONIGHT
Showers and thunderstorms, more numerous through the evening. Some
severe.
Overnight Low 54
WIND: SW 8-16

SATURDAY
Showers and thunderstorms ending early. Windy and cooler.
Morning Low 54 Afternoon High 68
WIND: W 12-25

SUNDAY
Mostly cloudy, breezy and much cooler. Scattered light rain.
Morning Low 39 Afternoon High 55
WIND: NW 12-22

MONDAY
Partly sunny and quite cool. Chance of some early snow flurries NE
Alabama.
Morning Low 34 Afternoon High 55
WIND: N 6-12

TUESDAY
Mostly sunny. An early morning scattered frost.
Morning Low 33 Afternoon High 65
WIND: NE 5-10

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