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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Morning Edition For Tuesday July 15, 2008
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...Dry Summer Days...

CONTINENTAL AIR: An unusually dry airmass for summer continues to
hover over Alabama today, meaning another day with almost maximum
available sunshine and low humidity. Temperatures will reach the low
90s this afternoon, but the low dewpoints will make the afternoon heat
a little more comfortable.

Dry air is the story for the next of the week; we will forecast mostly
sunny days and fair nights through Friday with only a few fair weather
cumulus clouds in the afternoon sky. Humidity levels will slowly rise
as the week rolls along. By the weekend, we will mention just a small
risk of an afternoon shower or thunderstorm Saturday and Sunday, but
the weather will remain generally dry.

TROPICS COMING ALIVE: Tropical storm Bertha sideswiped Bermuda
yesterday, with the circulation center passing just 35 miles east of
the Atlantic island. Steering currents are rather weak and erratic,
but the system will slowly move away from Bermuda in coming days; it
should weaken slowly over the colder water of the North Atlantic by
the weekend and early next week.
Another strong wave in the Atlantic has the potential to become a
tropical depression today; it is moving steadily to the west/
northwest, and will be moving over relatively warm water with little
shear. Conditions, in fact, seem to favor this becoming tropical storm
Cristobal in coming days, moving in the general direction of the
Caribbean. Too early to determine if this will be a threat to the Gulf
of Mexico, or the Southeast U.S., but we will watch it closely.

And, we note the eastern half of the Gulf of Mexico is disturbed;
those storms are in the vicinity of the surface front that brought the
drier air to Alabama Sunday night. A broad surface low seems to be
forming in that region; it will move northeast during the next 24
hours, keeping much of the Florida peninsula wet, but that moisture
should remain well to the southeast of here.

GULF COAST WEATHER: The chance of a shower is very small along the
Central Gulf Coast through tomorrow; lots of sunshine for the area
from Panama City westward to Gulf Shores with afternoon highs in the
85 to 89 degree range. Scattered showers and storms will return by
Thursday, Friday, and the weekend.

TWENTY EIGHT YEARS AGO: At this time back in 1980, Alabama and much of
the southern U.S. was broiling in one of the greatest heat waves of
all time. It still rates as one of the hottest Alabama summers on
record. The hottest day of the summer was July 17th when over 80
percent of the state reached 100 degrees, and nearly one quarter of
the state reached 105F. The highest reading on that day was 108
degrees recorded in the cities of Bessemer, Aliceville, and Jasper. It
was 105F in Birmingham that day. Around the nation, the heat wave
claimed anywhere between 1,250 and 10,000 lives.

James Spann
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TODAY
A good supply of sunshine.
Afternoon High 92
WIND: NE 5-10

WEDNESDAY
Mostly sunny.
Morning Low 67 Afternoon High 92
WIND: SE 5-10

THURSDAY
Partly to mostly sunny.
Morning Low 68 Afternoon High 93
WIND: SW 5-10

FRIDAY
Partly sunny.
Morning Low 69 Afternoon High 93
WIND: SW 5-10

SATURDAY
Morning sunshine; just a slight risk of an afternoon shower.
Morning Low 70 Afternoon High 92
WIND: SW 6-12

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