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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Afternoon Edition For Wednesday October 1, 2008
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FREE WORSHIP CONCERT OCTOBER 5 6:00 pm

Hunter Street Baptist Church invites you to a free worship concert
called Praise 150 on Sunday, October 5 at 6:00 p.m.

Praise 150 will include favorite songs and features the Hunter Street
choir and orchestra.
A new full-length studio worship album, SDG: Soli Deo Gloria, will
also be released that evening.

Hunter Street is located at 2600 John Hawkins Parkway (Highway 150) in
Hoover near Regions Park.

For information, visit http://www.hunterstreet.org or phone the church
at 205.985.7295.
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...October Is Upon Us!...

VERY PLEASANT, BUT WAY TOO DRY: October is here in all of its glory.
We could sure enjoy it more if we were not so dry. An example of the
dryness are these September rain totals:

0.40 Birmingham Airport
0.51 Downtown Birmingham
0.42 Gadsden
0.32 Livingston
0.65 Vigo (NE Alabama, east of Piedmont)

October is traditionally our driest month of the year. Unfortunately,
we can have some serious droughts this time of year. 1924 is the
most notable one when we had one of the worst droughts ever. We had
exactly zero drops of rain that month and a mere 0.01 in November. We
went 51 days in a row with not a drip of rain between September 30 and
November 20.

Even though we are also dry this autumn, we are in better shape than a
year ago. So far this year, Birmingham has received 44.26 inches of
rain—almost double the 23 inches at this same time last year. We are
actually 2.60 inches ahead for this year.

BACK TO THE PRESENT: This is one of those textbook weather days that
we long for during triple HHH weather of mid-summer. HHH stands for
Hot, Humid and Hazy. I daresay that, if you could get high enough off
the ground, you could almost see Mt. Cheaha and DeSoto State Park from
here. The humidity is very low and there is a brisk north wind. We
expect 40s tonight over all of North and Central Alabama. There is a
possibility of a few protected valley locations in NE Alabama cooling
to 38 or 39 tonight. We will try to run a list of low temperatures
tomorrow morning.

Some of our weather models have trended warmer for tomorrow night and
indicate lows in the 52 to 54 range. We are not going to buy that
solution immediately. It may be partially because those weather models
switched to a winter configuration today.

FOOTBALL WEATHER: Memphis will be at Legion Field tomorrow evening to
play UAB. It should be clear with 65 at kick off and 58 for the final
whistle. We will have a complete football forecast for high school and
weekend college games starting tomorrow, but it still looks great for
all games involved, as well as the weekend NASCAR races at Talladega.

TROPICAL WEATHER: Tropical Storm Laura lost that title this morning.
She is still a North Atlantic storm, but she has lost her tropical
bloodline. She was more than 300 miles east of the Newfoundland coast.
The long-range projection sends her eastward across the North Atlantic
in the general direction of Scotland. She will not be a big factor at
that time. The NHC has listed their last advisory.

OUR WEATHER WORLD: It was 26 degrees at Pahaska, Wyoming for the
coldest in the lower 48…it was 12 at Notak and Denali
National Park in Alaska…1 inch of new snow at Bettles, Alaska and good
old Deadhorse had an 11-degree wind chill.

MY TINY CORNER OF THE WORLD: Big changes for Little Miss Molly's best
friend (me)! Starting today I am going to do almost all of the walking
around our half-mile track when Molly needs to. I need the exercise. I
am also changing my eating habits today with only a single helping
each meal. My only liquids will be coffee and water. No more soft
drinks. A year from now I want to be as small as Jason Simpson and
able to run a 40-yard dash in 20 seconds. Wish me luck. Life goes on.

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

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FANTASTIC MIDDLE EASTERN FOOD FESTIVAL!

On October 9th, 10th, and 11th, Saint George Melkite Catholic Church,
425 16th Avenue South, will sponsor its Annual Middle Eastern Food
Festival.

Come enjoy traditional delicacies and authentic folk dancing presented
by our church community. Listen to music performed by Amin and the
Sultans band of New York. Our menu features a variety of dinner plates
as well sandwiches, side orders of spinach and meat pies and pastries.

Tours of our beautiful Byzantine church will be offered.

Lunch will be served Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 10:30 am to
2:00 pm; dinner from 4:00 pm to 9:00 pm. Delivery available during
Thursday and Friday lunch with a $50.00 minimum for downtown and
limited areas. A drive thru service will operate from 11:00 am to 2:00
pm and 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm.

For more info, go to http://www.saintgeorgeonline.org or call us at 252-5788
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TONIGHT
Clear and cool.
Overnight Low 46
WIND: N 4-6

THURSDAY
A few clouds, but mostly sunshine.
Morning Low 46 Afternoon High 76
WIND: NW 6-12

FRIDAY
Mostly sunny.
Morning Low 49 Afternoon High 79
WIND: NE 5-10

SATURDAY
Mostly sunny.
Morning Low 50 Afternoon High 82
WIND: E 5-10

SUNDAY
Mostly sunny.
Morning Low 52 Afternoon High 82
WIND: SE 5-10

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