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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Morning Edition For Monday July 14, 2008
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...A July Cold Front...

Will wonders never cease? A significant cold front in the middle of
July? Well, it's true. And it made it pretty far down into Alabama
last night. Far enough to allow drier air to filter into the northern
half of the state. Dewpoints will drop into 60s today and into the
upper 50s by Tuesday morning! That will seem very un-Julylike. It
will also allows for some readings in the lower 60s Monday night.
Some of the usual suspects may make the upper 50s! Lots of
exclamation points in this paragraph for sure…

FINE JULY WEATHER AHEAD: Sunny skies and less humidity will be the
rule through tomorrow. In fact, we should be mainly dry through
Wednesday. An isolated storm might creep back into the picture by
Thursday. As moisture levels slowly increase by Friday on increasing
southeasterly winds, we will see the return of scattered afternoon and
evening storms for the weekend. It looks like a trough may redevelop
over the East the last week of the month, giving us above normal rain
chances. We'll take 'em.

WILL IT GO ROUND IN CIRCLES? Tropical Storm Bertha has not moved
very much since Friday. And what moving it has done has been in
circles to a great extent. Maybe Billy Preston was singing about
Bertha when we did the song "Will it Go Round in Circles" in the 70s.
This morning, bertha is moving slowly northward. It is not much more
than 100 miles from the island of Bermuda now and will pass about 60
miles or so east of it today. Tropical storm warnings are in effect
for the island and heavy rainfall is likely. Heavy surf of up to 15
feet has been pounding the south and east facing beaches. This will
continue until it begins to move away from Bermuda Monday evening.
Bertha now holds fourth place in terms of longest time spent as a July
hurricane. It will assume first place as the longest lived July named
storm. Today will make 11 days. Emily in 2005 holds the record at 12
days. Bertha may well be a storm into the weekend.

94L TO BECOME TD3? By the time you read this, the well organized
disturbance in the Atlantic about 1000 miles east of the Windward
Islands may already be tropical depression number three and be well on
its way to being Tropical Storm Cristobal. It will be over 27C degree
water (tropical systems like 26C or warmer) and in an area of low
shear (10 knots), so Cristobal will likely become a hurricane in the
next three days. By Friday night, it should be a minimal hurricane
threatening the Virgin Islands and northern Leewards. The GFS then
predicts it will be taken northward through a weakness in the
subtropical ridge and curve out to sea. The GFS is hinting at at
least one more eastern Atlantic depression in the next two weeks.

ON THIS DATE IN 2005: Up to six inches of rain was measured over
eastern Jefferson and western St. Clair County in Alabama as opposing
outflow boundaries collided over the Metro Birmingham area. 5.94
inches of rain was measured in the City of Trussville. Widespread
flooding resulted.

Bill Murray
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TODAY
Mostly sunny and less humid with a pleasant northerly breeze.
Afternoon High 90
WIND: N 6-13

TUESDAY
Lots of sun after a very comfortable start for July.
Morning Low 64 Afternoon High 92
WIND: NE 5-10

WEDNESDAY
Partly cloudy and hot.
Morning Low 67 Afternoon High 93
WIND: E 5-10

THURSDAY
Partly cloudy and hot with only an isolated storm expected.
Morning Low 71 Afternoon High 92
WIND: E 5-10

FRIDAY
Partly sunny with scattered showers and storms.
Morning Low 72 Afternoon High 91
WIND: SE 5-10

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