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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Afternoon Edition For Thursday June 19, 2008
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HELP US FIND "FOREVER FAMILIES"
FOR ALABAMA'S FOSTER CHILDREN

Heart Gallery Alabama helps find families for the 270+ children
currently in Alabama's foster care system who are waiting for
their "Forever Families."

Heart Gallery, a non-profit 501(c)3 organization, recruits professional
photographers to capture the unique spirit of each child. They
interview the children and place their images and voices on a website
(http://www.heartgalleryalabama.com) and in traveling exhibits
throughout the state where prospective adoptive families can learn
more about them. Heart Gallery Alabama has helped find a
permanent home for 70 children.

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better able to deal with frustration, more likely to mature into
compassionate adults and to have a higher self esteem.

In honor of Father's Day, we ask that you consider becoming a
permanent home for a child. Or consider making a tax-deductible
donation to help our mission. Any donation will help us find
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Please call (205) 445-1293 or http://www.heartgalleryalabama.com
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...Temperatures Slowly Climbing...

BEST CHANCE FOR RAIN SATURDAY: The cool snap has been nice and it is
still with us to some extent. Temperatures, however, will be edging
upward and so will the humidity. Low temperatures this morning were
very similar to the ones yesterday morning. Here is a short list of
early morning lows:

48 Broomtown
49 Scrougeout (NE Etowah County)
50 Muscadine
51 Remlap
52 Scottsboro, Vigo
53 McCalla
54 Concord/Hueytown, Cullman, Pinson
57 Alabaster/Navajo Pines
58 Birmingham Airport, Tuscaloosa Airport

It will still be pleasantly cool tonight with some 50s
over NE Alabama and lower 60s down south. We have one more day of
sunshine tomorrow, although some clouds will move in late Friday.

OUR NEXT RAIN EVENT: It looks like Saturday will be the
main day for getting showers and thunderstorms. Some of those could
arrive Friday night, especially late Friday night. A few showers and
storms will linger into Sunday. We do not see any real hot weather any
time soon even by early next week. The highs will probably not exceed
the upper 80s.

DROUGHT NOTES: A lot of water systems have relaxed their
restrictions on the use of water. There is still a drought in
progress, especially over parts of North Alabama, but not nearly as
severe as it was last year at this time. Here is a list of rain
departures:
3.45 inch excess at Birmingham Airport
7.94 deficiency Montgomery (I incorrectly reported 0.88
earlier.)
5.08 deficiency Anniston Airport
4.84 deficiency Tuscaloosa
That is a great improvement over this same time last year
when the deficiency was well over 10 inches at almost every location.

SEVERE WEATHER: Two kinds continue today: the massive
epic flooding in the Midwest and along the Upper and Central
Mississippi River has most of the attention. President Bush is
visiting Eastern Iowa today. The Iowa governor has declared 18 of 99
counties under disaster designation. It is estimated that 38,000
people are homeless in Iowa alone—most of them have ruined homes.
There have been several levee breaks on the Mississippi River. A wide
zone of severe weather (severe thunderstorms and possible tornadoes)
is a threat (a Slight Risk area) all the way from Central and North
Texas north through all of Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska and the east
parts of Colorado and New Mexico.

MY TINY CORNER OF THE WORLD: So much traffic in an out of our house
lately that Little Miss Molly has sort of retreated to the master
bedroom and hangs out much of the day on the king-sized bed. Last
night she was curled up at the foot of the bed washing her feet and
she got to close to the end. All we heard was a thump and a grunt,
ummppp…Bridget Pytler, one of our daily readers, really got a laugh
out of the story yesterday about Molly having us well trained. Bridget
says, "Don't feel bad." She explained that she gets up no less than 20
times an hour serving as doorman for her 3 dogs and her daughter's 3
cats. Life goes on and it is more precious every day.

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

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TONIGHT
Clear and cool.
Overnight Low 59
WIND: Calm

FRIDAY
Mostly sunny. A slight chance of a shower or thunderstorm late at night.
Morning Low 59 Afternoon High 88
WIND: SW 5-10

SATURDAY
Cloudy at times. Scattered showers and thunderstorms, especially
afternoon and evening.
Morning Low 66 Afternoon High 84
WIND: S 5-10

SUNDAY
Partly sunny. A small chance of a shower or thunderstorm.
Morning Low 65 Afternoon High 86
WIND: NW 5-10

MONDAY
Partly sunny.
Morning Low 64 Afternoon High 88
WIND: NE 5-10

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