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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Morning Edition For Sunday November 30, 2008
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HUNTER STREET CHRISTMAS PAGEANT
Sunday, December 14

Celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ at "Beautiful Savior", a
Christmas pageant at Hunter Street Baptist Church. It will
be presented at 8:00, 9:30 and 11:00 a.m. on Sunday,
December 14.

This will be a morning of glorious music, pageantry and ballet.
Everyone is welcome. There is no charge. Childcare is available
for children, birth to K5.

Hunter Street is located three miles west of the Riverchase
Galleria at 2600 John Hawkins Parkway in Hoover. For more
information, call 205.985.7295 or visit http://www.hunterstreet.org
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...Snowflakes?...

Greetings from Seattle, Washington, where it is the middle of their
nine month rainy season. No, wait. I am in Alabama. It just feels
like the Pacific Northwest. Today will be another gray, misty day,
reminiscent of a Puget Sound day.

FOR YOUR SUNDAY: A whopper of a trough is our main weather feature on
this Sunday after Thanksgiving and Iron Bowl. It is moving east out
of the Arklatex this morning, but it will wrap up into a big bowling
ball of an upper low, and those features can be stubborn. The upper
flow over Alabama is still southwesterly this morning. Little ripples
in the flow are creating some patches of light rain. The persistent
frontal boundary over South Central Alabama is still there this
morning. As the trailing surface low moves along the front today, the
boundary will finally be shoved southward. A northwesterly surface
flow is allowing slightly cooler air to flow into Northwest Alabama,
but the real cold air flow will wait until the trough axis slides east
of us tonight. Temperatures will fall to around 40 overnight, and
they will stay there most of Monday, maybe even dropping a bit into
the 30s during the day. Monday will feel rather raw.

SNOWFLAKES? As the cold air filters in aloft, it will become cold
enough for the precipitation over North and Central Alabama to mix
with and change to snow late this afternoon and tonight. Some light
snow showers may continue into Monday. With surface temperatures
remaining above freezing, accumulations should not be a problem, but
it will be fun to watch. .

THE REST OF THE WEEK: Tuesday should dawn clear and cold, with lows
well below freezing across much of the area. Another strong storm
system will be taking shape over the Plains by early Tuesday, with
another strong upper trough and powerful surface low. Out winds will
shift around to southerly early on Tuesday, transporting moist and
relatively warm air northward into Alabama and the Deep South. It
will be breezy on Tuesday with temperatures moderating into the upper
50s. Clouds will increase on Wednesday with rain arriving Wednesday
evening. Some storms will occur west of Alabama, but there will be
limited instability by the time the system gets to us. But we could
see three quarters of an inch of rain. Much colder and drier air will
follow the front, with readings near freezing Thursday morning and the
middle 20s by Friday morning. Another wet weather system tries to
organize for the weekend.

SKY SHOW: Arguably, one of the most beautiful sky shows you will
ever see will be tonight. If there weren't any clouds, that is. For
a couple of weeks now, Venus and Jupiter have been providing a
brilliant sight in the southwestern sky just after sunset. The two
planets are moving closer and closer to a conjunction that will occur
tonight. And the pair is being joined by a slender crescent moon.
The trio will be about two degrees apart tonight, or less than the
width of your index finger extended at arms length. Venus is the
brighter one, but Jupiter is almost as breathtaking. Something this
special with the two brightest planets won't happen again until 2012.

ON THIS DATE IN 1991: Minneapolis ended November with 46.9 inches
of snow the most for any month ever in the Twin City. They had already
surpassed their normal season snowfall with 55.1 inches since October
1. Their average for the entire winter is 49.2 inches.

Bill Murray
bill.murray@theweathercompany.com

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TODAY
Steady or slowly falling temperatures. Scattered light rain showers
and drizzle. Possibly mixing with and changing to snow overnight.
Afternoon High 53
WIND: NW 10-18

MONDAY
Breezy and cold with a chance of light snow showers.
Morning Low 39 Afternoon High 39
WIND: NW 12-22

TUESDAY
Sunny with a cold morning. A breezy south wind develops.
Morning Low 26 Afternoon High 58
WIND: S 8-18

WEDNESDAY
Increasing clouds. Rain likely late afternoon into overnight. Chance
of a storm..
Morning Low 47 Afternoon High 59
WIND: SW 8-16

THURSDAY
Skies clear.
Morning Low 30 Afternoon High 48
WIND: NW 7-14

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