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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Afternoon Edition For Wednesday December 3, 2008
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...A Sparkle In The Air...

SHOWERS BY TOMORROW: Bright blue sky today, but I am sure you noticed
the very thin, wispy clouds way up in the sky much higher than the
crow flies. Those are called cirrus clouds. They are up at about
30,000 feet where the temperature is over 25 below zero and winds over
50 mph. I am sure you would not want to be up there today. Those type
clouds are also the first signal of a change in weather. Later, middle
clouds arrive and after that lower clouds. The clouds will increase
tonight, but we do not think we will see any showers until some point
between midnight and daybreak. A cold front will reach Central Alabama
around midday tomorrow. We will have a good chance of showers until
after the front passes. The temperature will trend colder again
tomorrow night, then dry weather from Saturday at least through next
Monday.

Not bitter cold this time behind the front, but look for some upper
20s by Saturday morning. It was cold across Alabama early this
morning. A few of the lows included: 22 at Scrougout, 23 at Reece City
and Rock Mills, 24 at Cedar Bluff and McCalla, and 25 at Mumford and
Vigo. The ridge tops were considerably warmer.

GLOBAL ROAMING: Bitter cold in parts of Alaska and NW Canada. It was
45 below zero at Arctic Village and 38 below at Old Crow in the Yukon
Territory. We see some
temperatures over in Northern Russia as cold as 55 below. It was 5
above this morning at Grand Marais, Minnesota. The National Weather
Service in Anchorage reports 22 inches of snow during November—about
twice the average amount. This November was the 9th snowiest on
record. Hottest temperature I could find in the whole wide world in
the last 24 hours was 104 at Tennant Creek, Australia. Remember, they
are in early summer.

A SCARY ALABAMA/AUBURN GAME: It was on this date in 1983 when a
tornado warning was issued while the game was still in progress at
Legion Field. The big storm waited until it got to Oxford to produce a
tornado. Two persons died.

MY TINY CORNER OF THE WORLD: Disturbing news story out of Central
Alabama where an animal shelter had to stop accepting pets because so
many people were giving up their pets because of the economy. It seems
that some are going to the extreme of abandoning their pets on back
roads in the middle of the night. It would kill me to do that. The
shelter had to euthanize a large number of dogs and cats because they
were overrun. Bridget Tytler sent me a heart-warming story about how a
6-year-old reacted after the family had to euthanize his 10-year-old
dog because of cancer. He was with the family when the vet put him
down. They were sitting around wondering why dogs cannot live as long
as humans. The 6-year-old handled it very well and he then explained
that when people are born they have to learn to love other people and
be good, while a little puppy already knows that at birth. For that
reason, dogs do not have to stay on earth as long. Great walk with
Little Miss Molly this morning. When it was time to turn around, she
plopped down in a big pile of sycamore leaves and resisted greatly
coming back home. She has a mind of her own. Life goes 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
Clouds increase. Scattered showers after midnight.
Morning Low 46
WIND: S 6-12

THURSDAY
A good chance of showers, diminishing by midafternoon.
Morning Low 46 Afternoon High 54
WIND: Bec. NW 10-15

FRIDAY
Mostly sunny and cool.
Morning Low 31 Afternoon High 52
WIND: N 6-12

SATURDAY
Partly sunny.
Morning Low 29 Afternoon High 54
WIND: W 5-10

SUNDAY
Mostly sunny.
Morning Low 31 Afternoon High 51
WIND: NW 5-10

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