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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Afternoon Edition For Tuesday December 23, 2008
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...Moderating Temperatures...

PART OF CHRISTMAS WILL BE SUNNY: Seems there are always some
surprises cranked into the weather menu when we have severely cold
temperatures followed by a warm up. I remember one time back in the
80s where the temperature warmed up so quickly after some bitter cold
that the moisture condensed on the parking lot and pavement and froze
with a thin sheet of ice because the surface was so cold and before
the temperature could get high enough to do away with it.

This morning a band of light precipitation spread across North Alabama
earlier than we had anticipated. Net result was some light freezing
rain across the north and NW counties. It came in so early that there
were a number of accidents, especially in Franklin County. The icing
was occurring for a time with temperatures a little above freezing.
This was because the infrastructure got so thoroughly chilled with the
bitter cold low temperatures Monday morning and then staying below
freezing all day yesterday.

NOW WHAT? We do not look for any additional problems like that.
Instead, the temperature will probably slowly climb tonight and warm
up even more tomorrow to the mid 60s. There is a chance of some rain
tonight, but a better chance of showers and a few thunderstorms for
tomorrow. Fronts are playing games with us and still another one will
move across Alabama Wednesday night and be mostly out of the state
Thursday morning. So, this is generally good news for Christmas Day.
There may be a few showers hanging on Christmas morning, but much of
the day will see the sun break through. The high should be near 59.

It is right back to more clouds and a chance of showers Friday and
Saturday with high both days near 70.

WEATHER BY THE NUMBERS: Would you believe that 19 years ago this
morning the temperature at Birmingham Airport was sitting on 1 above
zero? It was a major cold wave. It dropped to 11 in New Orleans and 26
below at Topeka. The pressure climbed to 1061mb. 15 inches of snow at
Wilmington, North Carolina. 22 below zero was the coldest in the lower
48 states this morning and 35 below was how cold it was at Mayo in the
Yukon of NW Canada. Parts of northeastern Maine got 42 inches of snow
out of this latest storm system. In the Pacific Northwest, both
Portland and Seattle have not seen as much snow in many, many years.

MY TINY CORNER OF THE WORLD: The majority owner is hospitalised and
will be in St. Vincents East probably through Christmas. This puts a
damper on our Christmas celebration as we were expecting as many as 20
people for chow on Christmas Day. The big disappointment will be
Little Miss Molly. She is very attached to the majority owner, because
every night when we go to bed, she gives Little Miss Molly a 15-minute
rubdown and head scratching until Molly can take it no longer and
collapses into a sound sleep. Molly will patrol every room of this
house numerous times over the next several days trying to find Judy. I
will try to take up the slack and spend a whole lot more time with
that little animal. If you want to send an e-mail greeting to the
majority owner, I will make sure she gets every one. Her e-mail
address is judyelliott2@charter.net. We all wish all of you a Merry
Christmas. No way we could do without our thousands of readers. Life
goes on—sometimes with some bumps.

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

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TONIGHT
Mostly cloudy and breezy. A chance of rain. Slowly rising temperatures.
Morning Low 48
WIND: SE 10-18

WEDNESDAY
Cloudy with a good chance of showers and a few thunderstorms.
Morning Low 48 Afternoon High 66
WIND: S 12-25

THURSDAY
Partial clearing. Only a few morning showers. Breezy.
Morning Low 46 Afternoon High 59
WIND: NW 10-18

FRIDAY
Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and possibly a thunderstorm.
Morning Low 52 Afternoon High 71
WIND: S 8-16

SATURDAY
Mild with a good chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Morning Low 57 Afternoon High 70
WIND: SW 10-15

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