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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Afternoon Edition For Wednesday October 8, 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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...Another Pleasant Weekend...

A GOOD SOAKING FOR ALABAMA: It happened mainly overnight and through
this morning, but many sections of the state got the most beneficial
rain in about one month. In fact, some communities had received only a
trace of rain for the last 30 days. The rain was heavy enough to set
off some flooding issues in some areas, especially around the
Tennessee Valley. By midafternoon today, most of the showers and
thunderstorms had shifted over into the extreme east and SE part of
the state. They were still producing locally heavy rain.

Again today we posted a long list of rain amounts on the ABC 33/40
Blog, but we want to list some representative amounts here:

2.16 Springville/Simmons Mountain
1.99 Scrougout (NE Etowah County)
2.43 Hanceville
2.04 Russellville
3.48 Wright (Lauderdale County)
1.15 Jasper
2.12 Walnut Cove
2.50 Brilliant
2.86 Moody
2.44 Fayette
3.90 SW Lamar County

Down south, there were several tornado warnings in the middle of the
night and this morning, but we do not have reports of any actual
touchdown or significant damage.

Drier air will spread into the state behind these showers and storms,
but we will not have the chilly temperatures like we did at night last
weekend. Lows for the next several nights will be mostly in the lower
60s. We expect no better than 78 for a high tomorrow and then low to
mid 80s through the weekend.

FOOTBALL WEATHER: We will issue a specific forecast starting in
tomorrow's editions, but it looks like excellent weather for high
school games that usually start around 7:30 and also for college games
over the weekend. We do not see any rain problem.

OUR INTERESTING WORLD OF WEATHER: Winter is really beginning to make
itself known over the Far North. The old thermometer was hanging out
around 17 below zero at Arctic Village, Alaska all morning. Heavy snow
accumulations for Yellowstone National Park by this weekend with lows
10-16 and highs only in the 20s. It was 22 this morning in Stanley,
Idaho for the coldest in the lower 48.

MY TINY CORNER OF THE WORLD: My Little Miss Molly, my 9-pound pal, is
so vibrant and outgoing that I like to keep her happy. We went a long
way to that yesterday by completely rearranging our large living area.
She now has a baseball diamond as nice as Yankee Stadium. Formerly the
furniture was arranged such that she had to go around furniture to
find her ball when we threw it. Now she races across at breakneck
speed. When she finally collapsed during the debate last night, she
was totally worn out. With the new arrangement, she also has a better
vantage point to warn us when varmints of any kind are coming our way.
She especially gets excited because she hardly misses seeing little
Dino, her boyfriend, any time he comes by. She usually gets so excited
that she makes us take her outside to play with him for a while. Life
goes on.

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

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TONIGHT
A few early showers. Patchy fog developing late.
Overnight Low 59
WIND: N 3-6

THURSDAY
Patchy early morning fog. Becoming mostly sunny.
Morning Low 59 Afternoon High 78
WIND: N 6-12

FRIDAY
Mostly sunny. A warmer afternoon.
Morning Low 62 Afternoon High 83
WIND: E 6-12

SATURDAY
Mostly sunny.
Morning Low 64 Afternoon High 84
WIND: SE 6-12

SUNDAY
Partly sunny.
Morning Low 65 Afternoon High 81
WIND: SE 6-12

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