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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Morning Edition For Tuesday November 18, 2008
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...Fresh Supply of Cold Air Arrives...

A FRESH CHILL: A cold front passed through Alabama last night in dry
fashion; in the wake of that boundary a fresh supply of cold, dry
Polar air blows into the state today. Despite a sunny sky, most North
Alabama locations will fail to reach the 50 degree mark, and strong
north winds will make it feel colder. Then tonight, with a clear sky
and light wind, we are expecting the coldest night so far this season.
By daybreak tomorrow, just about every Alabama community will be
somewhere below the freezing mark. We figure the range will be from 18
in the coldest valleys, to 35 on the ridgetops. Most places will wind
up somewhere between 25 and 29 degrees.
The weather will stay dry tomorrow and Thursday with a slow warming
trend, but then on Friday another shot of cool dry air arrives, which
will knock about 5 to 10 degrees off afternoon highs once again.

WEEKEND PREVIEW: A disturbance aloft will pass over Alabama on
Saturday, but with a very dry airmass in the lower 10,000 feet of the
atmosphere, we expect no rain and just a few scattered clouds. Looks
like afternoon highs over the weekend will be in the mid to upper 50s,
with early morning lows very close to freezing. The dry weather will
last into early next week.

ACROSS THE FRUITED PLAIN: Hottest place in the nation yesterday was
Riverside, CA with 96 degrees. Coldest place was Arctic Village,
Alaska with 29 degrees below zero. Down here in the lower 48, the cold
place was Hallock, Minnesota with 12. Lake effect snow was a big story
yesterday; some spots in the lake effect snow bands around the Great
Lakes reported up to one foot of snow on the ground as of last night.

THANKS: We had a great crowd again this for our annual Skywatcher
training event called Storm Alert Xtreme… a special thanks to Brian
Peters for his hard work in putting the program together. We have many
new Skywatchers, and that will make the Alabama warning process more
effective! We now have about 450 active Skywatchers on our roster; I
am hoping we can double that number within the next year. We
especially need Skywatchers in rural Alabama counties where there are
no hourly reports, and very few good reports during times of severe
weather and winter storms.

ON THIS DATE IN 1988: Strong thunderstorms developed during the mid
morning hours and produced severe weather across eastern Texas and the
Lower Mississippi Valley into the wee hours of the night.
Thunderstorms spawned twenty-one tornadoes, including thirteen in
Mississippi. One tornado killed two persons and injured eleven others
at Nettleton MS, and another tornado injured eight persons at
Tuscaloosa around midnight that night. The Tuscaloosa tornado was
rated an F3; fifteen homes were destroyed, 25 sustained light to
moderate damage, and 50 were slightly damaged. Over $1.2 million in
damage occurred.

James Spann
jspann@abc3340.com

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TODAY
Sunny, breezy, and colder.
Afternoon High 48
WIND: N 10-18

WEDNESDAY
Sunny with a cold morning.
Morning Low 27 Afternoon High 55
WIND: SW 5-10

THURSDAY
Sunny.
Morning Low 34 Afternoon High 62
WIND: SW 6-12

FRIDAY
Mostly sunny. Another surge of cool air arrives.
Morning Low 36 Afternoon High 54
WIND: NW 10-18

SATURDAY
Mostly sunny.
Morning Low 32 Afternoon High 56
WIND: N 5-10

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