ABC 33/40 E-Forecast

ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Afternoon Edition For Tuesday December 30, 2008
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HOPE

Hope. It's something we all look for. Too often we think hope
is just a wish or a feeling. We've seen what can happen when
we put our hope-our trust-in the wrong place, people or things.

Christian hope is different. It is the confident, joyful expectation
that God is working for my good and his glory.

Do you know someone who needs hope, especially in these tough times?

Join others seeking "Hope" this Sunday at Hunter Street Baptist
Church in Hoover. Visit http://www.hunterstreet.org for service
times and directions.

Hunter Street is located at 2600 John Hawkins Parkway in Hoover,
just 3 miles west of the Riverchase Galleria. Phone 205.985.7295.
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...Temperatures Close To Normal...

NEXT RAIN AFTER MIDNIGHT THURSDAY: Our temperatures for the next
several days will be more rational and about what they should be in
late December and early January. Our average low temperature at the
end of December and into early January is 33 and the average high is
53. Based on the long history, our coldest time of the winter is the
second and third week in January. Of course that fluctuates greatly
from year to year so that is just an average. As far as snow is
concerned, we have about as good a chance in February as we do in
January. Please don't take this as a hint that we will have a snow
this winter because we simply don't know for sure. If we did know, we
could make a few million. Actually, the all time snow record for
Birmingham can be blamed on the blizzard of 93 in the month of March
when we got 13 inches.

BACK TO THE PRESENT: Another cold front will come whizzing through
Central Alabama while you are still sleeping tonight. There will be no
showers or thunderstorms to herald it's arrival. Instead the wind will
shift around to the North and gust to over 20 mph during the day
tomorrow. The old thermometer will do good to reach the 50 degree mark
in our area. Up in the Tennessee valley, the high will be more like
45-48 so that will be quite noticeable.

NEW YEARS DAY: Another day of mostly sunshine to start 2009. Early
morning temperatures will be in the 20s and highs will be in the 50s.
Clouds will increase at night. There could be some showers after
midnight. If you are going out for a celebration, tomorrow evening,
temperatures will be in the 40s. Those showers will linger into Friday
and it will stay cool all day. Most of Saturday will be dry but clouds
will increase late and we may see some more showers after midnight
Saturday. The rain amount for the showers after midnight Thursday
night and Friday should be close to ½ inch.

ROAMING FAR AND WIDE: More strong winds and heavy snow in parts of the
Northeast. You can talk to anyone from Seattle and Portland Eastward
across Utah, Colorado, Montana, the Northern Plains, Midwest and all
the way into New England and they will tell you they are exhausted
from shovelling snow. It has been a winter to remember. Alaska has
shared the bitter cold and snow. The high in Fairbanks yesterday was
30 below and the low this morning 40 below. It was 53 below zero this
morning in Beaver, Alaska. Down here in the lower 48, where all the
states touch each other, the coldest was 15 below at Gunnison,
Colorado and Hallock and Roseau, both in Minnesota.

MY TINY CORNER OF THE WORLD: Miss Molly now tries a different tactic
to trick me into playing ball with her. She will very calmly follow me
like a shadow everywhere I go in the house looking straight up at me.
Those little eyes are powerful. It does not take much of that for her
to seize control of me and she usually gets a ball game. Her other
tactic is to grab one of her balls when she sees me coming and sling
it at me. Tried something different last night. I slept in a chair in
the den. Molly took over my recliner next to me. We both slept like a
rock. Life goes on.

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

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TONIGHT
Mostly clear.
Morning Low 36
WIND: NW 5-10

WEDNESDAY
Sunny, breezy and colder.
Morning Low 36 Afternoon High 51
WIND: N 12-22

THURSDAY
Sunny but clouds will increase at night. Chance of showers after
midnight.
Morning Low 27 Afternoon High 54
WIND: SE 6-12

FRIDAY
Mostly cloudy and cool with occasional showers.
Morning Low 41 Afternoon High 53
WIND: S 7-14

SATURDAY
Partly sunny but clouds increase late.
Morning Low 35 Afternoon High 57
WIND: SE 6-12

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Tonight on ABC 33/40:

6:00pm ABC 33/40 News
6:30pm Wheel of Fortune
7:00pm Happy New Year Charlie
7:30pm Rudolph's Shiny New Year
8:30pm According to Jim
9:00pm Eli Stone
10:00pm ABC 33/40 News

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