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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Morning Edition For Saturday May 30, 2009
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Attention Patriots--You Can Now Personalize Your
"God Bless America" Car Tag at your county license office!!

Proceeds benefit the Alabama Veterans Living Legacy at
The American Village in Montevallo. You can transfer any
style of your current license plate. For more info, contact
your county license office or visit www.americanvillage.org
and click on the car tag icon at the bottom of the page.

Mark your calendar and celebrate Independence Day at
The American Village on July 4th. And watch for special
one-day vacation rates in July.

The American Village is located 30 minutes south of Birmingham
in Montevallo, just 4 miles off Interstate 65 at Exit 234. Call
toll-free 1-877-811-1776, or 205-665-3535, or visit online at
www.americanvillage.org for additional information to help
plan your visit.

The Village also offers unique facilities for special events:
weddings, receptions, office retreats, corporate picnics, holiday
parties and private dinners. Call today to reserve your space!
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...A Beautiful Weekend...

You deserve it. After seemingly endless wet and stormy weekends,
Central Alabama is finally going to be treated to a mainly dry
Saturday and Sunday. Make sure you get a chance to get out and enjoy
it.

COMFORTABLE START: Many locations across the area are starting off in
the 50s this morning. That's not exceptionally cool for late May, as
the average low for this time of year is 62 at the Birmingham
Airport. But we will take it as we get ready to move into a long, hot
summer. Mornings like this will be a distant memory as he head deep
into the Dog Days of July and August.

FOR YOUR SATURDAY: After the nice start to the day, plentiful
sunshine will drive temperatures into the middle 80s today. These
readings will also be right around normal for the season. Skies will
become partly cloudy by afternoon, with fair weather cumulus clouds
giving the sky a bit of character. Tonight will feature skies that
will go clear with lows around 60.

SUNDAY: Tomorrow will start off sunny again, with partly cloudy skies
forming during the day. Highs will be a couple of degrees warmer,
with most places topping out in the upper 80s. A few spots will reach
90 degrees.

NEW WORK WEEK: The dry weather will continue into the first part of
next week. Monday will be mostly sunny and dry, with afternoon readings
pushing 90 degrees in many spots. We will re-introduce a small chance
of an afternoon storm on Tuesday as moisture levels rise. Widely
scattered showers and storms will be the rule on Wednesday, Friday and
Saturday as a weak boundary tries to edge into the area. The wild card
will be a potential low in the Gulf of Mexico. It does not appear
that it will have much of an impact on Alabama's weather, but it could
help the boundary filter further south into Alabama by Friday and
shove the showers toward the coast.

SNEAK PEEK NEXT WEEKEND: Looks like only widely scattered storms by
next weekend. Highs will be in the middle 80s. Lows will be in the
lower and middle 60s.

INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION VISIBLE TONIGHT: The ISS is very bright
now with its solar panels that are nearly as long as a football
field. Only the sun and moon are brighter right now. It will pass
across the sky starting in the north northwest at around 8:02 p.m.
this evening. It will take 8 and one half minutes to transit the
sky. Check it out.

ON THIS DATE FIVE YEARS AGO: Harper County, Kansas was not the place
to be during the 2004 tornado season. On May 12th that year, a huge,
slow moving supercell thunderstorm produced at least ten tornadoes
across the county. The strongest was an F4 twister near the town of
Harper. Dramatic video was captured of a tornado lifting a house near
the town of Attica and disintegrating it in midair. The residents of
the house were fortunately in their basement and were not injured
seriously.

Then just seventeen days later, on this date, another supercell storm
produced as many as nine additional tornadoes across the county.
Fortunately, no fatalities were reported during either set of
tornadoes. I was fortunate to get the opportunity to see
all of the tornadoes live and in person on the second of my two
tornado chasing adventures.

Bill Murray
bill.murray@theweathercompany.com

ABC 33/40 7 Day Planner: http://cfc.abc3340.com/abc3340/7day.cfm
ABC 33/40 Weather Blog: http://www.alabamawx.com

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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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TODAY
Mostly sunny. A cool early morning.
Afternoon High 86
WIND: N 6-12

SUNDAY
Sunny. A warm afternoon.
Morning Low 61 Afternoon High 88
WIND: NW 6-12

MONDAY
Mostly sunny.
Morning Low 64 Afternoon High 89
WIND: SE 5-10

TUESDAY
Partly sunny.
Morning Low 66 Afternoon High 87
WIND: S 5-10

WEDNESDAY
Partly sunny with widely scattered mainly afternoon and evening storms.
Morning Low 67 Afternoon High 85
WIND: SW 6-12

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