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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Afternoon Edition For Wednesday August 6, 2008
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CHURCH. IT'S NOT A BUILDING

It's people. A family of people that care for and support
one another in good times and bad. People learning to
trust and depend on God.

This Sunday, some will gather at Hunter Street Baptist Church
in Hoover. Will you join us?

Visit http://www.hunterstreet.org
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...Thunderstorms Increase Tomorrow...

A PLEASANT WEEKEND WITH LOWER HUMIDITY: We have been treated with
some hot and very humid weather lately. During that time we have had
several episodes of big thunderstorms that gave us some beneficial
rains. Remember last weekend when a tornado threatened Pell City and
another one in Pickens County? Some communities got over 4 inches of
rain in all that excitement.

We all know that in the middle of summer with temperatures well into
the 90s and a lot of sun that it does not take long for that topsoil
moisture to escape. We need more frequent showers in summer than in
winter.

Now we have a chance to get another good round of showers and
thunderstorms tomorrow and tomorrow night and extending into Saturday
morning. Later in the day Saturday, we believe that almost all of the
showers and storms will be south of the I-20 corridor.

A POSSIBLE SEVERE WEATHER RISK: Almost always, when weather events
turn toward a break in the heat wave in midsummer in the Deep South,
the lightning in those thunderstorms can be especially ferocious. The
Storm Prediction Center has almost all of Tennessee and Kentucky under
a Slight Risk later today and tonight. Here in North and Central
Alabama, do not be surprised to see some severe thunderstorms later in
the day tomorrow and tomorrow night. In fact, the latest assessment
from the SPC places North Alabama from about Birmingham northward in a
Slight Risk.

AFTER THE STORMS: One of the key ingredients to get the thunderstorms
is a cold front or cool front or frontal boundary that is expected to
push down into North Alabama by late tomorrow. Some of the projections
show it moving as far south as Montgomery before starting back north.
This is a haphazard thing to deal with in the Deep South in midsummer.
There are a lot of cold front graveyards in North and Central Alabama.
Anyway, after chewing on all the information we can find, we are
calling for mostly sunny and less humid weather both Saturday and
Sunday with lower humidity and pleasant mornings. Lows over the
weekend between 64 and 66 here in Central Alabama. I will go out on a
limb and say that some place in NE Alabama will report upper 50s at
some time between Saturday morning and Monday morning.

TROPICAL WEATHER: Edouard, of course, is now only a tropical
depression. This afternoon he was located about 70 miles WSW of Dallas
and still moving westward. A small area of showers and thunderstorms,
with a tropical wave, is just east of the Central Bahamas and moving
west 10 to 15. It is in unfriendly territory for the time being. It
could eventually produce heavy showers over part of the Bahamas and
South Florida in the next day or two.

MY TINY CORNER OF THE WORLD: Charlotte Barton in Tuscaloosa is one of
our regular readers. Responding to the column yesterday she reminds me
that she still dearly misses Benji. He died over a year ago. Charlotte
reminds us that dogs are a part of our family also and I fully agree.
Little Miss Molly petitioned for playtime late last night. I was too
busy, so she went on one of the most vigorous energy explosions since
we have had her. She was slinging balls everywhere, reversing
directions on a dime and racing through the house so rapidly that her
tail was sticking straight out behind her. She had to be doing 30 mph.
Life goes on.

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

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CHURCH. IT'S NOT A BUILDING

It's people. A family of people who are far from perfect, who
don't pretend there are no disappointments in life. But who
know where to turn in those disappointments and where hope
is found.

This Sunday, some will gather at Hunter Street Baptist Church
in Hoover. Will you join us?

Visit http://www.hunterstreet.org
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TONIGHT
Warm and humid. An isolated thunderstorm into the evening.
Overnight Low 75
WIND: SW 4-8

THURSDAY
Partly sunny. Scattered showers and thunderstorms, increasing in
number later in the day and at night. Some possibly severe.
Morning Low 75 Afternoon High 92
WIND: W 6-12

FRIDAY
Scattered showers and thunderstorms, mostly during the morning. Not as
hot.
Morning Low 70 Afternoon High 88
WIND: N 5-10

SATURDAY
Mostly sunny and less humid.
Morning Low 66 Afternoon High 90
WIND: NE 5-10

SUNDAY
Sunny. A pleasant morning.
Morning Low 64 Afternoon High 90
WIND: E 5-10

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