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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Afternoon Edition For Wednesday August 27, 2008
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...All Eyes On The Gulf of Mexico...

THE DRYING BEGINS: We deeply appreciated a visit to Alabama by
Tropical Depression Fay. She wet down the entire state and was a great
boost to drought relief. She also caused some problems, because she
tried to overstay her welcome and there were a number of flash flood
events around the state. There was also some damage from a few small
spin-off tornadoes.

Fay has left us, but still causing problems to the northeast of
Alabama. Meanwhile, we will have a few days to dry out. We do not have
any showers or thunderstorms in the forecast until a small risk on
Saturday and Sunday. With more sunshine returning, our high
temperatures will vary between 90 and 92 for Thursday through Sunday.
After that, a great deal depends on Gustav.

TROPICAL WEATHER: We might as well get into a discussion about Gustav
up front. Indications are this is going to be a situation where
everyone around the Gulf of Mexico should pay extremely close
attention, especially by late this weekend. The latest track forecast
on Tropical Storm Gustav brings him northwest through the Gulf of
Mexico to off the Louisiana coast by late in the weekend or early
Monday. As we have mentioned hundreds of times, to try to say where
landfall will be this far ahead is not advisable, but it appears that
somewhere along the North/Central Gulf of Mexico (translation: from
the upper Texas coast all the way to the Alabama coast). The models
seem to point mostly toward the Louisiana coast, but that projection
could change a number of times before landfall. He may be a major
hurricane by the time he makes landfall. We invite you to check often
with the ABC 33/40 Weather Blog. There will be heavy traffic with
numerous updates throughout the life of Gustav.

Meanwhile, the remnants of Fay, over extreme North Tennessee and East
Kentucky today, was causing bunches of problems. A Tornado Watch was
posted for the east half of North Carolina. There were significant
flood problems overnight and this morning. Charlotte was drenched with
7.46 inches of rain overnight, Asheville with 4.04 and 10.30 at
Concord.

GLOBAL ROAMING: Todd Fosey, is a forecaster with the National Weather
Service in Anchorage. He is a native of Birmingham. He tells us that
the first autumn color was showing up at nearby Girwood, Alaska where
he lives. It was 26 degrees in Big Piney, Wyoming this morning. There
are hints all over the place that a change in season is not too far
away. There is an average of 4,200 billion gallons of water that falls
on the USA each day in the form of rain or snow. Did you know that it
takes 300 million gallons of water to produce a single day's supply of
U.S. newsprint?

MY TINY CORNER OF THE WORLD: As I mentioned yesterday, we do not
celebrate birthdays, anniversaries and holidays—we celebrate weeks
instead of a special day. It so happens that the majority owner's
birthday is today, so she and Little Miss Molly will celebrate all
week together. The majority owner turned down a Milk Bone biscuit that
I offered her this morning. I do have plans to surprise her with a
gift she will like at some point in the next month or so. I told Molly
not to tell. Life goes on.

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

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TONIGHT
Mostly clear.
Overnight Low 67
WIND: NW 4-6

THURSDAY
Mostly sunny and warmer.
Morning Low 67 Afternoon High 91
WIND: N 5-10

FRIDAY
Sunny.
Morning Low 68 Afternoon High 92
WIND: W 5-10

SATURDAY
Partly sunny. A small risk of an afternoon thunderstorm.
Morning Low 70 Afternoon High 90
WIND: SW 6-12

SUNDAY
Partly sunny. A few afternoon showers or storms.
Morning Low 70 Afternoon High 90
WIND: E 6-12

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