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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Morning Edition For Saturday July 19, 2008
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...Nate King Cole Weather...

Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer. Remember that old
song from the 60s by Nat King Cole? Well if there is any better song
for our weather forecast this weekend, I am not sure what it would
be. You'll wish that summer could always be here.

AIR QUALITY ALERT: The Alabama Partners for Clean Air have an Air
Quality Alert posted for today. In Jefferson and Shelby County, we
are CODE RED for Ozone and Code Orange for Particle Pollution. Cut
your emissions by curtailing and combining travel, avoiding drive
thrus, avoiding mowing the lawn, postponing burning and filling gas
tanks after 6 p.m.

FOR YOUR WEEKEND: Seasonably hot conditions will prevail
across Alabama through the weekend, with highs well into the 90s.
What is unusual is the dry air. Dewpoints in the upper 50s and lower
60s are rather anomalous for mid-July in Alabama. That will begin to
change tonight as those dewpoints edge back up through the 60s. Skies
will be fair at worst today and tomorrow.

THE WEEK AHEAD: The dryness and suppressing weight of
high pressure has kept Alabama basically free of showers for the past
couple of days and that trend will continue into the first part of the
week. Highs will be in the 90s and lows will edge back toward the 70
degree mark. By Thursday, there are signs that a trough will begin to
be carved out over the eastern United States. This may allow
something like a back door cold front to edge in from the northeast
late in the week, increasing our shower and storm chances in the
Thursday/Friday time frame. Scattered showers and storms will be the
norm through the weekend.

TROPICS: Bertha is the July storm that will not die. It became a
hurricane again last night but that will be brief as it is headed over
colder water and running into increased wind shear. It will become
extratropical tonight or Sunday. Tropical depression number three
formed off the Georgia/South Carolina coast late last night. It may
become a tropical storm today as it heads northeast, remaining
offshore. A strong disturbance in the central Caribbean may become a
tropical depression at any time. It will race the other system to
become the C storm. C will be Cristobal. D will be Dolly. The
Caribbean disturbance should move west northwest, likely crossing the
Yucatan and turning on a more northwesterly course that will take it
into Northeast Mexico or near the Texas/Mexico border. The waters
over the western Caribbean are extremely warm if this thing can
develop a closed circulation. Watch out.

NOTES FROM ALL OVER: Numerous earthquakes off the
Oregon coast over the past week or so…fortunately no tsunamis
generated in any of these tremors. Yesterday was the 22nd anniversary
of the incredible KARE Minneapolis helicopter footage up close and
personal of a very photogenic F2 tornado.

ON THIS DATE IN 1977: Eighty eight years after the
Great Johnstown flood, the supposedly "flood proof" city of Johnstown,
Pennsylvania was struck again with a wall of water as the earthen
Laurel Run Dam gave way in the face of twelve inches of rain. Seventy
seven people were killed and $325 million dollars in damage was caused
by the swirling flood waters.

Bill Murray
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TODAY
Hot with hazy sunshine. Only a tiny chance of an afternoon shower.
Afternoon High 94
WIND: NW 5-10

SUNDAY
Hazy summer weather continues; only isolated afternoon showers.
Morning Low 69 Afternoon High 93
WIND: W 5-10

MONDAY
Hot and hazy. Isolated afternoon showers.
Morning Low 71 Afternoon High 92
WIND: SW 5-10

TUESDAY
Partly sunny. A passing shower or storms in a few spots.
Morning Low 72 Afternoon High 92
WIND: SW 5-10

WEDNESDAY
Periods of sun. Developing showers and storms by afternoon.
Morning Low 72 Afternoon High 92
WIND: SW 5-10

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