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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Afternoon Edition For Friday October 3, 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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...Calm And Collected Weekend...

THERMOMETER EDGING UPWARD: Not much going on around Alabama this
weekend and even well into early next week. The old thermometer will
be crawling upward a bit starting tomorrow. After that, it will relax
in the mid 80s for a high and pleasantly cool temperatures at night
mostly in the mid and upper 50s. The forest fire danger remains high
and we still need rain, but this weekend will be ideal for anything
you want to do outdoors.

DROUGHT SITUATION: The Birmingham area had only 0.40 rain in
September—the sixth driest September. The USA drought monitor has
placed Alabama back into a 93% drought area. The most impacted areas
are in NE Alabama.
This is no way near as serious as the one a year ago. Most communities
have received about twice as much rain so far in 2008 than
they had at this same time in 2007.

TROPICAL WEATHER: Virtually nothing going on in the vast Atlantic
Basin, which includes not only the Atlantic, but also the Caribbean
and our dear friend the Gulf of Mexico. However, there is a broad area
of low pressure over the NW Caribbean. It is producing mostly clouds
and showers, but conditions are not favourable for it to develop and
it was moving very little. Well respected hurricane researchers at
Colorado State University, headed by Dr. William Gray, in their
updated forecast are calling for three more named storms during
October, including the possibility of one major hurricane.

FOOTBALL AND RACE WEATHER: Perfection describes the weather for
tonight's high school games with temperatures around the 7:30 kick off
in the 60s and cooling to the upper 50s in the 4th quarter. On
Saturday, Trinity University from San Antonio will be at Birmingham's
Regions Park for a noon kick off with Birmingham Southern. The warmest
temperature during the game should be around 84. Kentucky will be in
Tuscaloosa to play Alabama in a 2:30 kick off on CBS. About 85 degrees
at kick off and in the 70s in the 4th quarter. At 5:00 p.m., there
will be a kick off in Nashville where Vanderbilt meets Auburn on ESPN.
Clear weather expected with 78 at kick off and 62 at the final
whistle. This is a major NASCAR race weekend at Talladega. Clear, dry
weather is expected with highs around 85 and lows 55 to 60. Since
there will be so much sun it will feel rather warm in the infield and
in the stands during the afternoons.

OUR WEATHER WORLD: 21 at International Falls and Waskish,
Minnesota—the cold spots this morning and 10 Anaktuvuk Pass,
Antarctica.

MY TINY CORNER OF THE WORLD: The sun was barely up when Little Miss
Molly forced me outdoors for a half-mile walk this morning. A patch of
clouds at about 6,000 feet made the sunrise more dramatic, especially
backlighting the Old Crow Motel. We were only a short distance up the
track when Dino, the little Yorkie, came out of his back door and met
Molly halfway up the embankment.

They kissed and sniffed for a while. Molly dearly wants to marry him,
but he is too young. A bit further up the track, the big black dog,
with the crooked tail that is always pointing toward Anniston, came
out of the hedgerow. He and Molly went round and round. The Old Crow
Creek is as dry as the dry wash I used to sit in in the Arizona desert
near Sedona waiting for a roadrunner to come by that I could
photograph. Never was successful even though I had my shutter speed at
1/1000ths of a second. He would come flying by going faster than the
space shuttle. I just have to take a short drive up Washington Valley
this weekend to check on autumn color and possibly use my new digital
camera for the third time since it was given to me last Christmas. It
is hard to break the habit, since I have literally thousands of
photographs from regular film.

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
Mostly clear.
Overnight Low 54
WIND: Light

SATURDAY
Mostly sunny. A little warmer.
Morning Low 54 Afternoon High 84
WIND: SW 5-10

SUNDAY
Sunny.
Morning Low 55 Afternoon High 85
WIND: S 5-10

MONDAY
Mostly sunny.
Morning Low 59 Afternoon High 84
WIND: SE 6-12

TUESDAY
Partly sunny.
Morning Low 63 Afternoon High 83
WIND: SE 6-12

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