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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Afternoon Edition For Thursday October 9, 2008
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FALL FEST 2008
Saturday, October 18th 9:00 am-2:00 pm Cane Creek Community Gardens
at McClellan.
Join us for a day of food, fun, and fellowship celebrating agriculture
and homemaking skills. Live music provided by Chris Scott.
There will be an Arts & Crafts contest, a Canning Contest, a Baked
Foods Contest and Cake Walk, and an adult and children's BBQ Contest--
just like an old fashioned county fair.
TONS of activities for kids! Vacation trip to Opryland to be given away.
For more info and contest rules, visit http://www.aces.edu/Calhoun or
call the Calhoun County Extension Office at 256-237-1621.
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...Dry For Several Days...

MADE TO ORDER TEMPERATURES: That means they should be ideal for
almost any plans you have, which includes football, picnics—you name
it. The upper low-pressure area that set off those strange
thunderstorms over West Alabama during the afternoon was centered over
South Georgia today. It was still making the atmosphere rather angry.
So much so that a Severe Thunderstorm Watch was posted for NE Florida,
SE Florida and the Charleston area of South Carolina. On two occasions
this afternoon, the National Weather Service in Jacksonville posted a
Tornado Warning for several NE Florida counties.

That upper low is having somewhat of a reverse effect on Alabama
weather. The circulation around it has kept part of North and NE
Alabama cloudy for most of the day.

HOW ABOUT THE WEEKEND? It will not be total sunshine every day. We
have a large surface high-pressure area that will be centered near New
York City. It will cause an easterly flow across Alabama, somewhat
like a wedge. This will give us some clouds in and out sometimes, but
the weekend and including Columbus Day on Monday, should have more sun
than clouds. Temperatures will be ideal with highs in the lower 80s
and lows at night consistently in the 60s. The wind will be out of the
east almost all the time.

FOOTBALL WEATHER: Near perfect weather for high school games tonight
and Friday night. Most games kick off at 7:30 and it should be in the
70s at that time with upper 60s by the final whistle. Alabama has an
open date. UAB is in Houston tonight for a 7:00 p.m. kick off playing
the University of Houston and televised nationwide on CBS CSN. Clear
weather is expected with near 80 at kick off and 67 when we know the
final score. Appalachian State will be in Birmingham to play on campus
at Samford Stadium at 2:30 tomorrow. This is one of the most
anticipated games for Samford in a long time. It should get no warmer
than about 82 during the game and in the 70s for the final whistle.
Arkansas will be at Auburn for a 4:00 p.m. game Saturday on pay-per-
view. Dry pleasant weather with 78 at kick off and 70 when you go home.

TROPICAL WEATHER: A broad elongated low-pressure area was 225 miles
east of the Windward Islands. The associated showers are
discombobulated. The upper air should stay unfriendly for tropical
cyclone development. A very interesting situation over in the extreme
Eastern Pacific where Hurricane Norbart was centered 385 miles SSW of
the southern tip of Baja, California. Moving NW, he is a major
hurricane—a Category 3. The interesting part about him is that he is
expected to curve toward the NE moving into NW Mexico Sunday morning
and he may eventually bring a good influx of moisture into West Texas
and South New Mexico.

OUR INTERESTING WEATHER WORLD: Good old thundersnow expected in the
Colorado Rockies over the weekend. In Yellowstone National Park, 8 to
18 inches of snow is expected Friday and Saturday…snow is also
expected to affect places like Northern Utah…did you know that there
are 107 mountain peaks with elevations of 10,000 or more that are
named within Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado…it was 9 above
zero in Stanley, Idaho this morning and 2 below in Denali National
Park, Alaska…Whittier, Alaska had 5 inches of new snow…we have a
subscriber at Hunter Street Baptist Church that loves that town.

MY TINY CORNER OF THE WORLD: I have to figure out how many miles I
have walked around the track with Little Miss Molly. The last time I
did that, if we had walked in a straight line, we would have been in
Central America or in Southern Canada. She is getting so much playtime
thanks to our rearrangement that she wants to go to bed earlier than
usual.

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

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TONIGHT
Partly cloudy.
Overnight Low 62
WIND: E 4-8

FRIDAY
Some clouds at times, but mostly sunshine.
Morning Low 62 Afternoon High 82
WIND: E 5-10

SATURDAY
Partly sunny.
Morning Low 65 Afternoon High 82
WIND: E 6-12

SUNDAY
Partly sunny.
Morning Low 64 Afternoon High 81
WIND: SE 6-12

MONDAY
Partly sunny.
Morning Low 66 Afternoon High 82
WIND: SE 6-12

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