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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Afternoon Edition For Tuesday April 28, 2009
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Head Down Under for an Outback Adventure
with SummerQuest at Hunter Street, June 1-5

It's summer and the kids are home from school with nothing to do.
Instead of leaving them to watch TV and play video games all day, you
can send them on a week-long Outback Adventure with SummerQuest!

Outback Adventure will be held at Hunter Street Baptist Church in
Hoover, June 1-5. At Outback Adventure, kids grades 1-6 will learn
about our great God as they take part in arts and crafts, sports
activities,
Bible study, and corporate worship each day. Outback Adventure is free,
so bring a friend, family member or neighbor with you.

Outback Adventure starts each morning at 8:30 a.m. and dismisses at
12:15 p.m. Registration is required, and you can register your kids at
www.kidquestonline.org. T-shirts are available for $7. For more
information, call Hunter Street, 205.985.7295 or visit www.hunterstreet.org
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...Little Change For Alabama...

TEMPERATURES STILL ABOVE NORMAL: A stalled front this afternoon
extended from NE Texas to Illinois and Indiana. A high-pressure system
was centered in the Atlantic east of the coast of the Carolinas. This
is a typical set up for our part of the country this time of year and
there is very little encouragement for that stalled front to crank up
and move again. In fact, by Wednesday and Thursday the front will
retreat northward leaving Alabama in a warm and fairly humid air mass.
Even so, there is not much of a trigger to set off showers and
thunderstorms. It looks as if the better chance of us getting wet will
be about Saturday and Sunday when the front will push southward again
and possibly stall across North Alabama late in the weekend.

Meanwhile, until that happens only a small chance of a shower
tomorrow, few if any on Thursday and just a few on Friday. Most
communities will stay dry during those three days. Afternoon
temperatures will persist at being about 5 degrees above average for
late April with most highs in the lower 80s.

WE COULD USE THE RAIN: This time of year it does not take very long
for topsoil moisture to disappear even after a good rain. Fairly low
dew points with brisk southerly winds and an overdose of sunshine can
dry things in a hurry. The Birmingham surplus for April so far has now
dwindled to less than 1/3 of an inch. Some other parts of the state
are showing a deficiency.

WAY TOO MUCH RAIN IN HOUSTON: The biggest city in Texas has
experienced three flash flood events in the last 12 days. Amazingly,
Houston/Hobby Airport has received almost 16 inches of rain so far
this month making it the wettest April on record with the previous
wettest being 10.49 inches in 1973. Significant flash flooding erupted
overnight and the entire city was drenched. Jersey Village in the
greater Houston area was inundated with 10.13 inches of rain in the
last 24 hours. Bunker Hill Village had 9.74 inches and Katy, west of
Houston, 7 inches.

ROAMING NORTH AMERICA: The hottest in the country yesterday was again
in the Mid-Atlantic States with a hot 97 at Leesburg, Virginia and
Toms River, New Jersey. The coldest in Alaska this morning was 21 at
Wainwright. I believe that is the highest coldest since last fall.
Still 65 inches of snow on the ground at Whittier. In the lower 48
states, one of the coldest spots was the west entrance to Yellowstone
National Park with 21. There is 25 inches of snow on the ground at
Pahaska, Wyoming.

MY TINY CORNER OF THE WORLD: Sure was nice to have Glenn Slye and his
daughter, Anne Anderson drop by yesterday. We hated to lose France
Slye well over a year ago. They were our weekly Friday night Rook
partners. This was the first time for Molly to see Glenn since her
death and she remembered him immediately. They visited us for about
two hours and Molly never left Glenn. She stuck to him like glue. That
is one friendly little girl. We have a neighbor across the street that
has a new little dog, smaller than Molly, who stays in their backyard.
When I walk Molly by there they kiss each other through an opening in
the fence. Life goes on.

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

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2009 SEC BASEBALL TOURNAMENT
MAY 20-24
REGIONS PARK STADIUM in Hoover
For Tickets, call (800) 732-4849 (800-SEC-4TIX)
or visit http://www.southtix.com/secbb.html
For Corporate Hospitality Packages, call (205) 977-9335

Here's your chance to see the best college baseball in the country,
right here in Hoover, Alabama! See the top eight teams in the SEC
compete for the tournament title over the course of this five day
event.

Reserved seats are going fast so be sure to order yours today at
(800) 732-4849 or by logging onto http://www.southtix.com/secbb.html
Opportunities still exist to entertain employees, clients or friends
in the Corporate Hospitality suite. Call (205) 977-9335 to inquire
about the various corporate hospitality packages.

Mark your calendars to go to Regions Park Stadium, May 20-24
to see some big time college baseball.

The 2009 SEC Baseball Tournament
THE BEST COLLEGE BASEBALL IN THE COUNTRY!!
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TONIGHT
Partly cloudy and mild.
Morning Low 63
WIND: SE 4-7

WEDNESDAY
Partly sunny. Only a small chance of a shower.
Morning Low 63 Afternoon High 82
WIND: S 6-12

THURSDAY
Continued warm and partly sunny.
Morning Low 62 Afternoon High 82
WIND: S 7-14

FRIDAY
Partly sunny. An isolated afternoon shower.
Morning Low 63 Afternoon High 81
WIND: SW 6-12

SATURDAY
Mostly cloudy with scattered showers and possibly a thunderstorm,
mostly in the afternoon and night.
Morning Low 63 Afternoon High 79
WIND: SW 8-16

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