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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Afternoon Edition For Thursday April 17, 2008
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A NICE SPRING WARM UP: After several chilly nights in a row and even
some scattered frost on two nights, we now look down the road. Just
around the curve is some highs in the upper 70s for tomorrow and 80 or
better on Sunday and Monday. Look for the weather to be completely dry
until late Friday when a few showers and storms will travel in from
the west. Here in Central Alabama, by far the more numerous showers
and thunderstorms will come Friday night. They should still be in
progress after midnight, but doing their best to get out of Dodge
before the sun comes up on Saturday. Not a great deal of change in our
thinking about how much rain we will get out of this quick event, but
it looks like about 0.80.
Even that will help our drought some more. No part of Alabama is
under the Exceptional D4 Drought Category. Even the topsoil is in a
lot better shape than it was in the height of the drought. However,
crops depend on deeper soil that goes down to about four feet. That
part has not greatly improved.
PROWLING THE COUNTRYSIDE: I was just looking at a warning map
showing all 50 states county-by-county and there is a long green
string from NW Illinois to SE Louisiana. Translation: those counties
are along the Mississippi River and some type of Flood Advisory or
Flood Warning goes all the way down to near Baton Rouge. Part of that
area will be in line to get some more heavy rain from the same storm
system that is to bring our Friday night storms…no sub-zero weather in
the lower 48 this morning. The coldest was 8 in Jellystone Park (as
Yogi Bear would say)…coldest in Alaska was 20 below at Bettles…the
deepest snow I could find (not counting the mountains) was 50 inches
at Whittier, Alaska…with the world tilting slowly on its axis, the old
globe will be shifting its seasons to bring the coldest weather to
southern extremities and hot weather to the Northern Hemisphere…let us
look in on one of my favorite spots, which is Vostok, Antarctica,
where it was a bitter 86 below zero and a steady 12 mph wind. That
will send the wind chill completely off the charts. The actual
temperature is forecast to reach 99 below during this weekend.
USA SEVERE WEATHER THREAT: We believe that because of limited
instability, we will get by here in Alabama with a minimal threat of
severe thunderstorms Friday night. In fact, we have not even mentioned
a slight risk. That could change, of course. There is a Slight Risk
today in the south/central part of the country.
MY TINY CORNER OF THE WORLD: I have decided my little 9-pound stick-
tight pal, sometimes known as Little Miss Molly, doubles as an
electronic monitor. I cannot even tiptoe on the carpet through the
living area to get my cup of coffee without that little bushy head
slowly rotating like it is a moving department store camera checking
to see if I am going to steal something. All signs seem to say that
Molly was glad to get rid of that long hair. She has been going on
energy explosions since being home. She will tear through all rooms of
the house at 90 mph with her little tires squealing and nobody around.
Today was my 76th birthday, but I truly feel like 46 and am humbly
thankful. I mentioned this on our internal conference this morning.
Bill Murray mentioned it on the blog and what an explosion of
greetings. I deeply appreciate everyone. Have received 148 greetings
via the 33/40 blog and e-mail. I had no idea so many people knew me.
The greetings came from as far away as Cincinnati. I always thought I
could go down to Bryant Denny Stadium, when Alabama had 150,000 people
at a practice game, yell my name over the PA system and the only
people that would recognize it would be Russell Thomas and Grady
Vinson. Life goes on.....
J.B. Elliott
jb.elliott@theweathercompany.com
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TONIGHT
Mostly clear.
Overnight Low 50
WIND: S 4-6
FRIDAY
A shower or thunderstorm possible late in the day, but mostly Friday
night.
Morning Low 50 Afternoon High 78
WIND: S 10-20
SATURDAY
Showers ending early with some afternoon sunshine.
Morning Low 53 Afternoon High 72
WIND: SW 8-16
SUNDAY
Mostly sunny.
Morning Low 44 Afternoon High 80
WIND: SW 5-10
MONDAY
Partly sunny. Warm and more humid. A few late showers.
Morning Low 56 Afternoon High 82
WIND: SE 5-10
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