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Morning Edition For Sunday August 24, 2008
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...Watching Fay...

I have to admit that yesterday is my absolute favorite weather day.
Breezy and overcast with a rain that lasts for hours. Dying tropical
cyclones usually do the trick. Temperatures across Central Alabama
never made it out of the 70s. Perfect.

FAY'S PROLIFIC RAINFALLS: Fay dumped a single-storm record rainfall
of 22.83 on Cape Canaveral. An even higher amount of 26.65 inches was
recorded at Wendover Farms near Melbourne. Several twenty inch
amounts were reported in the area. If the 26.65 inch amount checks
out, it will make Fay the fourth wettest tropical cyclone to affect
Florida. There was a 22 inch report in Tallahassee. Several reports
in excess of 16 inches have been received. It will be interesting to
see the final reports.

HOW MUCH MORE RAIN? Fay moved northwestward Saturday afternoon and
evening into Southwest Alabama. It pushed a large shield of rain into
the state. Rainfall amounts were relatively light over North Central
Alabama. Heavier rains fell from t he more pronounced rainbands over
South Central sections. After nightfall, the rainbands began to
intensify, and as shear increased so did the tornado threat. A
tornado watch was issued for the overnight hours across South Central
and Southeast Alabama. The steering currents should collapse and the
remnant low will find itself stranded over Mississippi. As it does,
Alabama will be in the moist southerly flow and rainbands will reform,
wrapping their way into the center of the low. This means more rain
and storms through the day today. Heavy rainfall will be possible
with the stronger bands. With some heating, thunderstorms that do
form could produce tornadoes given the shear present. The remnant low
will meander around southern Mississippi through Monday, sending
additional waves of rain and storms our way. A nearly stationary,
decaying tropical cyclone can produce some incredible rainfall
amounts. Given three days, parts of Alabama could see rainfall
amounts in the 7-14 inch range. Will that happen? Only time will
tell. But it certainly is a potentially serious situation.

REST OF THE TROPICS: Disturbance 94L passed through the Lesser
Antilles last night and is now over the Caribbean. Conditions are
favorable for a tropical cyclone to develop in the next couple of
days. It would pose a threat to Hispaniola and Jamaica or the
Bahamas. It could eventually pose a threat to the U.S. Southeast or
Gulf Coasts.

ON THIS DATE IN 1893: The Hurricane Season of 1893 was an especially
bad one for the United States. Only two other seasons in history have
seen six hurricanes strike the U.S. coast. On this date, a hurricane
made landfall near present-day Kennedy Airport in New York City with
top winds of 90 mph. The storm surge swamped a resort on Hog Island,
completely washing it away. Modern emergency managers fear what a
similar storm would do today. Only twenty five people died in the New
York hurricane, but the six storms that year killed a total of four
thousand people, making it second only to 1900 as the deadliest in
U.S. history. Just three days later, the Sea Islands hurricane would
strike the South Carolina coast, killing at least 2000.

Bill Murray
bill@integralhospitality.com

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TODAY
Continued breezy with periods of rain.
Afternoon High 81
WIND: E/SE 10-20

MONDAY
Periods of rain.
Morning Low 71 Afternoon High 83
WIND: SE 8-16

TUESDAY
More rain.
Morning Low 70 Afternoon High 84
WIND: SE 7-14

WEDNESDAY
Partly sunny. Showers becoming widely scattered.
Morning Low 70 Afternoon High 87
WIND: NW 6-12

THURSDAY
Partly cloudy. A slight chance of afternoon and evening storms.
Morning Low 71 Afternoon High 90
WIND: W 5-10

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