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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Afternoon Edition For Sunday May 31, 2009
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...A Little Hot Out There...

A beautiful Sunday afternoon is in progress across Alabama.
Temperatures were soaring through the 80s just before lunch time.
Many spots will register at 90 degrees or above this afternoon. Skies
are mostly sunny and regional radars are clear.

DRY WEATHER WILL CONTINUE: High pressure is centered over the Mid-
Atlantic States this morning. It is providing our current spate of
fine weather across Central Alabama. As it slides eastward over the
next couple of days, our winds will become southeasterly and moisture
levels will begin to increase. Monday and Tuesday should be dry,
although we can't rule out the possibility of a pop-up shower or storm
late in the day on Tuesday. Temperatures will remain quite warm, with
afternoon readings well above normal for the next couple of days.
Highs will be in the upper 80s to lower 90s.

MIDWEEK SHOWERS: By Wednesday, a cold front will be approaching
Alabama from the north. Look for a chance of storms on Wednesday,
mainly during the afternoon hours. The models have been consistent in
a solution that develops a low over Arkansas late on Wednesday. This
low will move eastward, passing through the Tennessee Valley on
Thursday. It will produce a good chance of showers and storms during
the day on Thursday. Some of the storms could be on the heavy side.

FRIDAY AND BEYOND: It looks like the low will be in northeastern
Georgia by Friday morning. Most of the showers will be out of the
state by then. Alabama will be under a northwesterly flow, which
provides generally fine weather, but can throw a couple of rogue
thunderstorm complexes our way from the Midwest.

TROPICAL ATLANTIC QUIET: The North Atlantic Hurricane Season
officially begins tomorrow and continues until November 30th. There
are no disturbances in the Atlantic right now that threaten to become
tropical cyclones and the numerical weather prediction models don't
show anything of concern over the next week.

ON THIS DATE IN 1998: During the afternoon of May 31, 1998, lines of
severe thunderstorms formed and moved rapidly east across New York and
Western New England. Several of these storms became tornadic over
Saratoga, Albany, Rensselaer, and Washington counties in New York and
Bennington county Vermont. Straight-line wind damage occurred across a
wide area. Cloud to ground lightning rates over the region reached
15,000 strokes per hour, rates not observed before over this region.
These storms resulted 68 injuries but no fatalities, tens of millions
of dollars in damage to homes and businesses, and extensive forest
damage.

ON THIS DATE IN 2003: Birmingham recorded 17.23 inches of rain during
the month to establish a new rainfall record for the month of May. It
also was the third wettest month ever in Birmingham. Amazingly, the
month came very close to being the all-time wettest month ever in the
Magic City, eclipsed only by July 1916 when a dying tropical storm
hovered over Alabama, dumping 20.12 inches of rain on the city.
Birmingham and much of the Deep South was locked in a southwesterly
flow pattern for a couple of weeks during the month that spread
copious amounts of Gulf moisture over the region.

Bill Murray
bill.murray@theweathercompany.com

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TONIGHT
Clear skies.
Morning Low 62
WIND: Light

MONDAY
Plentiful sunshine. Continued hot.
Morning Low 62 Afternoon High 90
WIND: SE 4-8

TUESDAY
Partly cloudy. Small chance of a late day shower or storm.
Morning Low 65 Afternoon High 87
WIND: SE 5-10

WEDNESDAY
Partly sunny. Chance of a shower or storm.
Morning Low 64 Afternoon High 85
WIND: S 6-12

THURSDAY
Showers and thunderstorms likely. Storms could be strong with heavy
rain.
Morning Low 66 Afternoon High 83
WIND: S/SW 7-14

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