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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Afternoon Edition For Thursday April 16, 2009
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...Showers and Storms By Weekend...

THE ALABAMA SITUATION: More change is ahead for Alabama weather,
which is not unusual at all for this season. Weather systems tend to
move more rapidly across the country in March, April and May.

It was another cool morning across the state. A few of the valley
locations dropped into the 30s. It was 35 in Scrougout, 37 at Cullman
Airport and 39 in Pinson.

Now we head for milder weather and with that mildness will come some
more showers and thunderstorms. Meanwhile, look for another sunny
day tomorrow. Here in Central Alabama clouds will increase Friday
night and we believe we will see a few showers and thunderstorms
around midday or later. Those showers and storms will become more
numerous Saturday night. Sunday is not shaping up to be a very
pleasant day. Showers and storms will be fairly numerous at times with
locally heavy rain. This does not appear to be an excuse for more
severe weather although we cannot rule out a slight risk of some
strong storms during the day. Across Central Alabama, the storm total
of rain will be somewhere between 1 and 2 inches.

Still another cold front will move through Monday. We may have some
leftover morning showers until the front passes. By Tuesday, we will
have clearing weather with lows in the low to mid 40s and highs in the
60s. The dry weather should then last most of next week.

We are still ahead of the game for 2009 rain amounts. In fact,
Birmingham is still 2 inches ahead of average. Lake Purdy, one of the
main sources for the metro Birmingham water supply, is still at full
pool—in fact, slightly above.

ANOTHER BIG SNOW: While we can almost assuredly mark snow off the
list for the rest of this season, parts of the Mountain West were
getting very heavy snow. We received an interesting note from our
friend, Matt Marshall, in Willard, Utah. He reports this last storm,
which became all snow yesterday afternoon, produced the biggest flakes
he had ever seen. The individual flakes were literally 1 to 2 inches
across looking like full-size cotton balls. The North Utah Mountains
were expecting 2 to 4 feet out of this storm. At Alta, a famous ski
area in the Wasatch Mountains of Northern Utah, 29 inches of new snow
fell in the last 24 hours and now they have 133 inches on the ground.
Speaking of snow, Denver has received 31 inches this season—a little
less than average. Evergreen, Colorado reports 47 inches and Wheat
Ridge 65 inches. You can tell the changing season is underway. At
midday, only 3% of the land area in the good old USA had temperatures
below freezing.

MY TINY CORNER OF THE WORLD: Sure was glad to get my little puppy
(well, she is six years old), but she will be a designated puppy the
rest of her life. When Molly gets home from a day at the beauty shop
she insists on more walks. Yesterday she had us out walking her six
times. On one of the walks, she stopped at every house where she knew
her friends live, but no one was in sight. She is truly a people dog
and I like that. Life goes on.

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

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TONIGHT
Clear and cool.
Morning Low 48
WIND: E 4-8

FRIDAY
Mostly sunny, but clouds increase at night.
Morning Low 48 Afternoon High 73
WIND: SE 10-18

SATURDAY
Mostly cloudy. Chance of a shower or thunderstorm by afternoon,
becoming more numerous Saturday night.
Morning Low 52 Afternoon High 68
WIND: S 10-18

SUNDAY
Windy with showers and thunderstorms. Rain locally heavy.
Morning Low 58 Afternoon High 70
WIND: S 12-25

MONDAY
Cooler, but still a chance of morning showers.
Morning Low 49 Afternoon High 65
WIND: NW 10-20

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