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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Afternoon Edition For Saturday October 11, 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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...Considerable Cloudiness...

The headquarters of Alabama weather this afternoon is over Upstate New
York, near Massena. Huge high pressure is centered there, but its
influence extends all the way into Alabama in the form of a high
pressure ridge. Easterly winds around the ridge are pumping Atlantic
moisture into Alabama. This is spreading considerable cloudiness in
from Georgia. Clouds have been increasing all morning over much of
Central Alabama, with only extreme western sections seeing more
sunshine. Temperatures will top out around 80, warmer in spots that
get more sunshine, slightly cooler in the cloudier locations.
Tomorrow will be a lot like today with lots of clouds and mild
temperatures. There could be a little drizzle in the morning, with
isolated showers at any time.

THE WEEK AHEAD: It looks like the easterly flow will be with us
through Monday, keeping skies on the cloudy side, although there
should be occasional peeks of sunshine. There could also be a few
isolated showers Sunday and Monday. The big storm system out West
will weaken and move out to the north, sending a weak cool front our
way by late Tuesday into Wednesday. It will stall over the state,
keeping scattered showers in the forecast possibly into the weekend.
Rainfall chances and amounts will be limited through the period.

TROUBLE OUT WEST: A powerful storm system is affecting the western
United States. Severe thunderstorm watches are in effect over Arizona
and New Mexico as a strong low draws in lots of moisture from Pacific
Hurricane Norbert. Instability levels are high and supercell storms
are possible. While severe weather is a problem to the south, strong
winds are affecting a wide region around the low and high winds
warnings are in effect for places like Payson, Arizona, where winds
today will gust to over 60 mph. To the north, unseasonable snows are
occurring. Boise, Idaho picked up 1.7 inches yesterday, the earliest
measurable snowfall there in 111 years of records. Two to three feet
of snow is expected across parts of Montana and Wyoming. As much as
three to five foot of snow will fall before the storm is over in the
Crazy and Beartooth Mountains of Montana.

SPEAKING OF NORBERT: Hurricane Norbert was making landfall on the
Baja California Peninsula early this afternoon. Norbert re-
intensified into a major hurricane last night, but fortunately
weakened slightly early this morning. It has top winds around 100
mph, making it a category two hurricane. It will pass over the Gulf
of California and make landfall near Ciudad Obregon around 7 p.m.
tonight. The storm will weaken rapidly over the mountainous terrain
of Mexico but will continue contributing lots of moisture to the storm
system over the western U.S. as it moves on the Plains. It could help
to produce very heavy rains like 1983's Tico. Shawnee, Oklahoma
picked up over ten inches of rain from that system.

IN THE ATLANTIC: A tropical depression may form this weekend over
the Atlantic midway between Africa and the Caribbean. If it does, it
will likely recurve out to sea without affecting any land areas. The
tropical wave over the Lesser Antilles is encountering strong wind
shear and development is unlikely. That may change as the system
moves deeper into the Caribbean this week and there are signs that a
depression could form by midweek. That would be a system to watch.

VIRGIN ISLANDS SHAKEN UP: Folks in the Virgin Islands were jolted
awake this morning by a magnitude 6.1 earthquake. The strong quake
struck about 6:40 local time. No injuries or major damage was reported.

ON THIS DATE IN 1991: Most people think of Seattle as being
consistently cold and rainy, but you may be amazed to know that more
rain falls each year in places like New York and Chicago. On this
date, Seattle was recording its' 40th straight day without measurable
rainfall.

Bill Murray
bill.murray@theweathercompany.com

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TONIGHT
A good bit of clouds.
Overnight Low 64
WIND: E 6-12

SUNDAY
Mostly cloudy. A little drizzle or an isolated shower possible. A
fresh easterly breeze.
Morning Low 65 Afternoon High 78
WIND: E 7-14

MONDAY
Another gray start. Maybe a shower or a little drizzle still.
Sunshine returns later in the day.
Morning Low 66 Afternoon High 80
WIND: E/SE 6-12

TUESDAY
Partly cloudy. A chance of a late night shower over Northwest sections.
Morning Low 65 Afternoon High 82
WIND: SE 6-12

WEDNESDAY
Mostly cloudy with a chance of a shower or storm.
Morning Low 63 Afternoon High 80
WIND: SW 6-12

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