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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Afternoon Edition For Tuesday October 7, 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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...Showers/Storms Tonight/Wednesday...

A VERY NICE WEEKEND AHEAD: Would you believe 13.50 inches of rain!
That is how much may have fallen in our part of the country this
morning. There is a catch to that statement—it was a Doppler radar
estimate of the amount that fell and it was also where it was not
needed. It was over the open waters of the North Gulf of Mexico just
south of the Alabama coast. That much would have caused significant
flooding inland.

Part of coastal Alabama did get a big amount of rain, especially
around Gulf Shores where there were 8-inch measurements. A number of
roads and streets were barricaded early this morning.
We still have a low-pressure area and upper-level disturbance to move
through, so this will give us more showers and thunderstorms tonight
and Wednesday. We believe the number will decrease by Wednesday
afternoon. These storms have been forming clusters and moving toward
the NE, so rain amounts varied greatly from county to county. As a
general rule, we believe Central Alabama will get over 1 inch of
additional rain tonight through tomorrow morning and a few places
might get around 1.50 inches.

HOW ABOUT ANOTHER NICE WEEKEND? It looks that way. In fact, we think
Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday and even into Columbus Day on
Monday should have mostly sunshine. The risk of any rain during those
four days is quite small. Temperatures will be comfortable. It is too
early to think football yet, but preliminary indications are that
Thursday and Friday night high
school games and Saturday college games will have made-to-order weather.

TROPICAL WEATHER: Tropical Storm Marco did not get to play around in
the warm waters of the SW Gulf of Mexico very long. He moved inland
into Mexico this morning and this afternoon sustained winds were down
to only 40 mph. He will be a tropical depression probably on the next
Advisory. Elsewhere in the Tropical Atlantic, the Caribbean and the
Gulf of Mexico nothing exciting.

OUR INTERESTING WORLD: Sure are a lot of interesting places in this
old world. Did you know that the population density in Alaska is only
one person per square mile, while in the District of Columbia
(Washington, D.C. area) there is an amazing 9,359 people per square
mile? The same storm system affecting Alabama today dumped 3.28 inches
of rain on Little Rock…the transition to colder is becoming more
noticeable over the Rock Mountain NW and the Pacific NW. Snow is
forecast for the Wasatch Mountains of Northern Utah and heavier
amounts in the Northern Cascades…5 inches of new snow at Barrow—the
northernmost town in Alaska where their football team will be in a
playoff with Kodiak.

MY TINY CORNER OF THE WORLD: In the hurry-scurry of life these days,
I can sometimes get in too big a hurry. It showed up in this little
column yesterday when I gave the false impression that I might
discontinue the Molly stories because of a complaint. Under no
circumstances would I do that. About 25 e-mails overnight insisted
that I continue them. I still want to write a book one of these days,
but who knows when. Lots of excitement for Little Miss Molly today. We
completely rearranged the living area and she always gets excited
about that. The way it is now, she can have a better lookout through
all the back windows and a separate lookout for the front door. You
can bet she will let us now when anyone approaches. This is especially
true of the pizza man. That aroma causes her to cram her nose in the
lower corner of the front door after he is gone to make sure he is
gone. Life goes on and we are well protected.

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

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TONIGHT
Occasional showers and thunderstorms.
Overnight Low 64
WIND: SE 6-12

WEDNESDAY
Showers and occasional thunderstorms, more numerous through the morning.
Morning Low 64 Afternoon High 74
WIND: SW 7-14

THURSDAY
Mostly sunny.
Morning Low 57 Afternoon High 78
WIND: NW 7-14

FRIDAY
Mostly sunny. A warmer afternoon.
Morning Low 59 Afternoon High 85
WIND: NE 5-10

SATURDAY
Mostly sunny.
Morning Low 64 Afternoon High 84
WIND: SE 5-10

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