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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Afternoon Edition For Thursday January 22, 2009
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...Take Heart; Warmer Weather Ahead...

GOODBYE TO THE BITTER COLD: Low temperatures tonight will not be near
as cold as the last two nights and a pronounced warming trend will set
in tomorrow. After a high Friday in the mid 60s, daytimes will be
cooler, but not really cold with most highs in the 50s well into next
week. That warming trend will not last very long, because we look for
another cold front to arrive by Saturday. It will keep our daytimes
cool well into next week. On most days our highs will be in the 50s.

Ahead of the front, some showers will arrive at some point Friday
night. We think it will be late at night, possibly even after
midnight. Our better chance of showers will be in the cooler air on
Saturday. By Sunday, the front should be south of our area and
scattered light rain should occur mainly over the south half of the
state.

Let us look at some of the low temperatures around the state this
morning:

12 in Grantley
14 Muscadine, Broomtown, Rock Mills
16 Scrougout
17 McCalla, Centre, Cottondale
18 Munford, Moody, Gadsden
19 Anniston Airport, Vigo
21 Tuscaloosa
24 Birmingham

THE FLORIDA FREEZE: It was 21 this morning at Crestview in North
Florida. Milton and Avon Park had 25. It was 26 in Daytona, Ft.
Walton, 27 in Pensacola, 28 in Melbourne and Orlando.

GLOBAL ROAMING: Looking to the Far Northwest, I am extremely
impressed about how the pressure is building up in NW Canada again and
frigid temperatures are being reported. At Old Crow in the Yukon, it
was 45 below zero and a very high pressure of 31.03 inches. That is
almost 1060mb. When the pressure builds that much it eventually has to
send a big glob of bitter cold southward. USA extremes in the last 24
hours included 89 yesterday afternoon at Santee, California and 42
below zero this morning at Arctic Village, Alaska. It was 6 below at
Lewiston and Houlton, Maine.

A POWERFUL TORNADO: It occurred at Moundville in North Hale County
105 years ago today. It destroyed the town soon after midnight. This
was in 1904 when there was no such things as radar, satellite, storm
spotters, weather radio, not even any radio, and of course, no TV or
cell phones. 37 fatalities and 63 injuries. Amazingly, a north-moving
train came by right after it hit. The engineer raced his train
backward all the way to Akron to telegraph a report.

MY TINY CORNER OF THE WORLD: I made a mistake. My little girl does
not weigh 10 pounds. In fact, she has lost ½ pound and now weighs 8.5.
As predicted, she slept most of yesterday recovering from the day at
the beauty shop, but today she is lively as a bumblebee. I have great
plans for her the rest of this afternoon and evening. I am going to
play ball with her until she begs for the final inning to be over.
Since we had her hair cut, including clearing her face, her eyes look
twice as big. That is bad for me, because now she can boss me around
like a foreman. Life goes on.

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

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TONIGHT
Fair and cool.
Morning Low 39
WIND: S 5-10

FRIDAY
Warmer. Clouds increase with showers starting late at night.
Morning Low 39 Afternoon High 65
WIND: SW 8-16

SATURDAY
Cloudy and cooler with a good chance of showers.
Morning Low 46 Afternoon High 52
WIND: N 8-16

SUNDAY
Mostly cloudy and cool. Scattered light rain, mostly south.
Morning Low 37 Afternoon High 49
WIND: NE 7-14

MONDAY
Mostly cloudy and cool.
Morning Low 38 Afternoon High 54
WIND: NE 5-10

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