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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Afternoon Edition For Monday December 1, 2008
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...Pretty While It Lasted...

SOME GOT IT; OTHERS DID NOT: When we have a dry year, late on almost
any day you can hear people grumbling because they did not get a drop
of rain while their first cousin three or four miles away got a
drenching. Scattered showers, by their definition, disappoints some
and makes other folks jump up and down and cheer.
It is the very same way with snow showers. That is what we had today.
There was not a great amount of moisture, however, it was much colder
aloft making the atmosphere unstable not unlike on a summer afternoon.
Instead of rain showers, there were snow showers—most of them over the
north third of the state. Photographs showing some beautiful winter
scenes were posted on the ABC 33/40 Blog. Most of the precipitation
had tapered off by this afternoon, but there could still be a few
flurries into the evening hours. Clouds will persist most of tonight
and the temperature will drop a few degrees below freezing by daybreak.

SUNSHINE TOMORROW: A high-pressure area will be moving east along the
Gulf Coast Tuesday and Tuesday night. This will keep us dry and sunny
tomorrow. SW winds will set in Tuesday night and Wednesday. Our next
weather system will be a low-pressure area moving east across Oklahoma
Wednesday and pulling a warm front northeastward. Here in Alabama,
clouds will increase by Wednesday night and some showers should move
in from the west later Wednesday night and last into Thursday. Down
south, there could be some scattered thunderstorms with that system.
Weather systems are moving fairly quickly and another cold front will
be moving through our communities early Thursday ending the showers by
the afternoon and bringing us another freeze by early Friday morning.
See our day-by-day forecast for all of the details.

HOW MUCH SNOW? We do not have exact measurements from our morning
snow showers yet, but based on photographs, it looks like up on
Lookout Mountain in DeKalb County around Mentone and DeSoto State
Park, that there could have easily been 2 inches. There was also a
fairly solid snow cover in Franklin County of NW Alabama and yards and
housetops were white in the Cullman area. The snow began melting by
late morning.

GLOBAL ROAMING: Cold temperatures in the USA this morning included 3
above zero at Flag Island and Warroad, Minnesota and 22 below zero at
Stony River Lodge, Alaska. (That is a new one on me.) It was as warm
as 88 in Indio, California yesterday afternoon. There are still some
Winter Weather Advisories in East Tennessee and West North Carolina
mountains.

MY TINY CORNER OF THE WORLD: Sunday is always a very busy day in our
little corner, so for the second day in a row, I had to ignore a very
important little person. (Excuse me, I mean animal.) Little Miss Molly
never fails to let me know when I have shortcut her on playtime. I
made a special effort late last night to have a big ballgame with her
with the opening kick off at 10:30 p.m. She was happy as a lark and
ready to hit the sack as soon as we got through. Our busy life goes on
and on and on.

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

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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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TONIGHT
Cloudy and colder. A few evening flurries.
Morning Low 30
WIND: W 3-6

TUESDAY
Mostly sunny and cool.
Morning Low 30 Afternoon High 50
WIND: SW 6-12

WEDNESDAY
Mostly sunny, but clouds increase late with a chance of showers after
midnight.
Morning Low 34 Afternoon High 60
WIND: S 8-16

THURSDAY
Cloudy with a good chance of showers, mainly through the morning.
Morning Low 44 Afternoon High 62
WIND: N 7-14

FRIDAY
Sunny. A cold early morning.
Morning Low 27 Afternoon High 51
WIND: NE 5-10

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