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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Morning Edition For Tuesday March 17, 2009
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A NEW LAKE COMMUNITY

Horizons on Logan Martin Lake in Pell City, Alabama is a new lake
lifestyle community. As of this month, we have available for sale and
occupancy, 4 upscale town homes and 31 prime lake lots.

The community is unique in that there are 15 acres of common lake
property with 3000 feet of shoreline.

There is an 8 foot wide boardwalk the entire 3000 feet, ready
for your morning or evening walk. The clubhouse is complete
and includes an upstairs and downstairs great room and kitchen,
an exercise room, 12 foot covered porch all around, pool,
showers and much more.

You can buy your lot and plan your dream home and start enjoying all
the amenities today. Launch your boat on our private launch, dock at
your private space or just sit on the boardwalk and tan. Enjoy the
pool, take a shower before dinner and plan your own get together at
the 4000 square foot club house.

Check us out at http://www.horizonsloganmartinlake.com or call
ReMax Realty Pros at 205-884-6000
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...A Brighter and Warmer Day...

VERY NICE EARLY SPRING WEATHER: While dense fog is a good possibility
this morning as we start the day; we expect a good supply of sunshine
once that fog burns off. Temperatures will recover nicely, with highs
up in the mid 70s this afternoon. Look for similar weather tomorrow;
lots of sunshine with a high in the mid 70s.

COLD FRONT ON THURSDAY: A surface boundary will pass through Alabama
on Thursday; moisture will be very limited, but a few isolated showers
are possible along the front Thursday afternoon into Thursday night.
Rainfall should be light and spotty, and most places won't have enough
rain to measure. Cooler air follows the front, and temperatures on
Friday will be about 10 degrees cooler.

DRY WEEKEND: Sure looks like a delightful weekend ahead; a sunny sky
is expected Saturday and Sunday. The high Saturday will be in the
upper 60s, followed by low 70s Sunday. Morning temperatures will be in
the 40s, and some of the colder spots could reach the upper 30s early
Saturday morning.

LONG RANGE: The first few days of next week are looking dry; some of
the global models are hinting our next major rain event is about 10
days away, around March 27. But, we all know there isn't much skill in
a specific forecast beyond seven days. But, we must remember this is
the spring severe weather season, and storm events are usually pretty
frequent this time of the year.

ANOTHER FREEZE: I still think it is too early for planting anything
that will be harmed by freezing temperatures. The average date of the
last freeze here is March 23, but we have had freezing temperatures as
late as April 23. A late season cold snap is just about a given,
although at this time we don't see any sub-freezing temperatures for
the next 7 days or so.

ON THIS DATE IN 1952: A: The ban on using the word "tornado" was
actually issued in 1886 and ended in 1952. In the 1880s John P. Finley
of the U.S. Army Signal Corps, which then handled weather forecasting
for the USA, developed generalized forecasts on which days tornadoes
were most likely. But in 1886 the Army ended Finley's program and
banned the word "tornado" from forecasts because "the harm done by a
(tornado) prediction would eventually be greater than that which
results form the tornado itself." The thinking was that people would
be trampled in the panic if they heard a tornado was possible. The ban
stayed in place after the Weather Bureau, now the National Weather
Service, took over forecasting from the Army. A tornado that wrecked
52 large aircraft at Tinker Air Force Base, Okla., on March 20, 1948,
spurred Air Force meteorologists to begin working on ways to forecast
twisters. The Weather Bureau also began looking for ways to improve
tornado forecasts and established the Severe Local Storm Warning
Center, which is now the Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla. The
ban on the word "tornado" fell on March 17, 1952 when the new center
issued its first "tornado watch."

James Spann
jspann@abc3340.com

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TODAY
Warmer with a good supply of sunshine.
Afternoon High 75
WIND: NE 5-10

WEDNESDAY
Mostly sunny.
Morning Low 49 Afternoon High 76
WIND: S 5-10

THURSDAY
Partly sunny. A few isolated showers by afternoon.
Morning Low 50 Afternoon High 71
WIND: NW 7-14

FRIDAY
Mostly sunny and a little cooler.
Morning Low 46 Afternoon High 66
WIND: N 5-10

SATURDAY
Sunny.
Morning Low 45 Afternoon High 69
WIND: E 5-10

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