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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Afternoon Edition For Wednesday September 3, 2008
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...Still Watching The Tropics...

THE ALABAMA STORY: Still plenty of interesting news about the
overactive Tropics currently, but for the time being, Alabama will be
greatly unaffected. Gustav dumped heavy rain over SW Alabama, but the
rest of the state got very little and we have not had much since.

Weather models disagree on our chances of showers for the next few
days. One of the most dependable models increases the chance of
showers considerably, but we are leaning toward another model that we
use a lot that limits the number of showers. It looks like we will
have a small chance almost every day until probably a slight increase
on Saturday. It appears that we could have a weak cool front moving
across our area by this weekend and bringing us a mostly dry Sunday
and a slight drop in humidity.

A NOT SO BAD AUGUST: It is autumn as far as the weather community is
concerned. Our final month of summer, August, was not bad at all. We
had an average daily high of 88.7 and we did not reach the 100-degree
mark a single time. That is a sharp contrast to last August when we
had an average daily high of 98.4—10 degrees hotter than this August.
Every day last August had temperatures in the 90s or higher and 13
days saw 100 or higher. We were in the midst of a severe drought last
year. It is interesting to note that the Birmingham rain surplus is an
even 6.00 inches as of this morning. We have received 43.86 inches of
rain so far this year—more than double the amount at the same time
last year. Remember, droughts and heat waves are first cousins. They
go hand in hand.

THE EXCITING TROPICS: The circulation that is still part of Gustav
was moving slowly at only 2 mph into Missouri this morning and still
dumping extremely heavy amounts of rain. Most of this rain is
remaining just west of Alabama. Still some heavy amounts coming down
over Louisiana Mississippi, Arkansas and Missouri and that heavy rain
will spread NE as the center of Gustav moves that way. Even Northern
Illinois and part of Michigan should get several inches. We have three
more named storms in the Atlantic to watch out for. They are Hanna,
Ike and Josephine. Hanna is our most concern now. She is expected to
eventually move NW, maybe remaining off the east coast of Florida and
making landfall somewhere along the South Carolina or North Carolina
coast Saturday morning. After that, she should parallel the Atlantic
Seaboard all the way into the far northeast. We should not get any
rain out of Hanna. Ike will be our next concern. He was still way out
in the Atlantic today, but is projected to move westward, passing
between Cuba and the Bahamas. After that, it is difficult to tell.
Outside chance of another Gulf of Mexico intruder.

MY TINY CORNER OF THE WORLD: With the population of our household
tripled for much of the last year, the noise level understandably
nearly tripled also. With grandkids who do not ever want to go to bed,
Little Miss Molly does not have the opportunity to enjoy peace and
quiet as much and long daytime naps. There is almost someone picking
her up to love her. I have noticed that she comes in my office a whole
lot more often asking me to pick her up and hold her. She also loves
to sit on my desk and look out the big window. In doing so, she
occasionally walks across the keyboard on my Apple computer creating a
typo which I need to go back to correct. She helps me because she
keeps swishing that bushy tail across my keyboard keeping it clean.
With her on my desk, our eye level is equal and she gets a lot of
hugs. Sometimes she slows my work, but I do not mind and life goes on.

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

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TONIGHT
Mostly cloudy and mild.
Overnight Low 71
WIND: SE 6-12

THURSDAY
Variable cloudiness. A slight chance of a shower.
Morning Low 71 Afternoon High 88
WIND: SE 7-14

FRIDAY
Partly sunny with widely scattered showers.
Morning Low 70 Afternoon High 88
WIND: SE 7-14

SATURDAY
Widely scattered showers and possibly a thunderstorm.
Morning Low 68 Afternoon High 86
WIND: N 6-12

SUNDAY
Partly sunny. A little less humid.
Morning Low 68 Afternoon High 89
WIND: N 5-10

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