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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Afternoon Edition For Friday October 10, 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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...Clouds In and Out...

PLEASANT AUTUMN TEMPERATURES: Our weather, as far as the old
thermometer is concerned, is fairly stagnant. Daytime highs are going
to be consistent—close to the 80-degree mark or slightly higher with
lows at night mostly in the 60s. That part is fairly easy. The
difficult part is trying to determine how much sun and how much
cloudiness each day. High pressure along the east coast is sending a
consistent east wind across our area. Occasional bands of clouds will
spread westward, so at times we will be clear and at other times
almost overcast. There is a slight chance of a little light rain or
showers mixed in with this. We are calling for just a slight chance
about Sunday and again Tuesday. Not enough rain to be of real benefit.

FOOTBALL WEATHER: Cannot ask for any better for the high school games
tonight. The weather should be dry with temperatures in the 70s at
kick off and about 68 for the final whistle. On Saturday, Jacksonville
State will play Eastern Kentucky in Richmond, Kentucky. For the 5:00
p.m. kick off, it should be clear and around 80 degrees and near 66 in
the 4th quarter. That location is in Eastern Kentucky on I-75, some 30
miles or so south of Lexington. Arkansas will be in Auburn for a 4:00
p.m. kick off. We look for dry weather, although cloudy at times.
Temperatures should be in the 70s for the entire game. Alabama has an
open date.

TROPICAL WEATHER: The large nervous weather area about midway between
the west coast of Africa and the Lesser Antilles, is showing more
signs of organization. It will continue moving slowly WNW and
additional development is possible. If it becomes a tropical storm,
the name will be Nana. Meanwhile, another disturbance near the Lesser
Antilles is not expected to grow much any time soon, because of
unfavourable winds upstairs. In the extreme Eastern Pacific, Hurricane
Norbert is still very interesting to watch. Sustained winds are still
100 mph. His projected path turns NE across lower Baja, California and
into NW Mexico Sunday morning. Beyond that, he will no longer be a
hurricane or tropical storm, but he still has the capability of
bringing some much needed moisture into West Texas and Southern New
Mexico.

OUR WEATHER WORLD: Quite unusual for the weather to be turning so
wintry so early in parts of the west. Yellowstone National Park is
going to get hammered with 15 to 30 inches of snow starting today and
continuing through Sunday. There will be blowing and drifting snow
with that. 6 to 10 inches is expected in Casper, Wyoming and there
will be snow down into Northern Utah and other parts of the
west...cold spots this morning included 14 at Ely, Nevada and 6 below
zero at Anaktuvuk Pass, Alaska…Barrow has 9 inches of snow on the
ground…in Anchorage, it has been freezing or lower for the entire last
24 hours…the upper level cold core low-pressure area was still
centered near the Georgia/South Carolina coast. Thunderstorms
yesterday produced 1.90 inches of rain at Savannah…on this date in
1780, the hurricane season had developed into one of the worst in
reported history. The hurricane on October 10-12, was the all-time
deadliest. It is believed that 22,000 people perished. The first week
of that October saw a hurricane kill 1,000 people in Jamaica.
The Eastern Gulf of Mexico was hit later. An additional 2,000 persons
were killed.

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

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TONIGHT
Partly cloudy. Pleasant temperatures.
Overnight Low 64
WIND: E 4-8

SATURDAY
A mix of sun and clouds.
Morning Low 64 Afternoon High 82
WIND: E 6-12

SUNDAY
Variable cloudiness. A slight chance of a shower.
Morning Low 65 Afternoon High 79
WIND: E 7-14

MONDAY
Partly sunny.
Morning Low 66 Afternoon High 80
WIND: SE 6-12

TUESDAY
Partly sunny. An isolated shower.
Morning Low 65 Afternoon High 82
WIND: SE 6-12

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