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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Afternoon Edition For Wednesday April 22, 2009
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...Good Raceway Weekend at Talladega...

ALABAMA TURNING SPRINGLIKE: Well, in reality it is spring, but we
have had some temperatures lately that made some folks (not me) reach
for a light coat or sweater. Now we are headed for some real typical
spring weather and it looks like a very pleasant weekend for the
entire state. Tonight will average about 10 degrees warmer than last
night. After that, look for highs in the 80s all the way through the
weekend and mostly dry weather.

One slight exception to the dry weather—one of our weather models
paints a picture of some scattered light showers developing over NW to
Central Alabama during the day Thursday. Most of those will be
afternoon and evening and a chance of any one garden or yard getting
wet is quite small. Back to mostly sunshine Friday through Sunday.

RACE WEEKEND WEATHER: Excellent for the Talladega races at the
Talladega Speedway. Highs over the weekend will be in the mid 80s and
mostly sunshine. There will be enough wind to keep you from getting hot.

PASSING A MILESTONE: Tomorrow, April 23, is the latest in the year
that Birmingham has ever had a freezing temperature. It was 30 on
April 23, 1986. That means the danger of frost is virtually over until
next Fall. Not a money-your-back guarantee, but a damaging frost would
be unheard of this late. We have had temperatures in the mid 30s as
late as May 4 and a low of 38 as late as May 13.
There was a distinct chill in the air early this morning, especially
over NE Alabama and a bit of light frost in a few spots. A few
selected lows:

31 Broomtown
32 Scrougout
36 Ft. Payne
37 Pinson, Crossville
38 Noccalula Falls
39 Anniston, Cullman

MISCELLANEOUS: Would you believe another earthquake in Central
Alabama at 5:29 this morning. It was centered 10 miles south of
Centreville and was rated 2.9 magnitude. Today is sort of a milestone
also in Alaska. Coldest I could find was a low of zero. That is the
first time to not have sub-zero temperatures since last autumn.
Whittier, Alaska (our daily check point just for the fun of it) has 81
inches of snow on the ground. 109 was the hottest in the USA yesterday
in Death Valley. Coldest in the lower 48 this morning was 23 at Park
Rapids, Minnesota.

MY TINY CORNER OF THE WORLD: One of the most amazing traits of my
little 9-pound pal, Little Miss Molly, is the tremendous enthusiasm
she greets us with when returning. She must lose track of time because
she is just as enthusiastic and jumping up and down like a ping-pong
ball whether we have been gone for 6 hours or 15 minutes. We came
driving down our street yesterday afternoon and our granddaughter was
walking Molly toward the house. When we passed them, Molly chased us
like a bullet train and as we were getting out of the car, she came
racing across the yard and jumped up on both of us like she had not
seen us for a week. That won many more points with me, but she has
already stored up a million good points with me in the last 6 years.
Life goes on.

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

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TONIGHT
Fair and not as cool.
Morning Low 53
WIND: SW 3-6

THURSDAY
Partly sunny and warmer. A slight chance of an afternoon or evening
shower.
Morning Low 53 Afternoon High 82
WIND: SW 10-15

FRIDAY
Mostly sunny and warm.
Morning Low 59 Afternoon High 85
WIND: S 10-15

SATURDAY
Mostly sunny.
Morning Low 60 Afternoon High 84
WIND: SW 7-14

SUNDAY
Mostly sunny.
Morning Low 60 Afternoon High 83
WIND: SE 6-12

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