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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Afternoon Edition For Tuesday May 26, 2009
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...Are You Tired of Rain?...

LOOKING FOR A BREAK: Two years ago about this time, people were
literally begging for rain. When I was at church last Sunday morning,
no less than 25 people said it is time to stop. I told them we had the
magic ingredients to stop the rain by pushing certain buttons on our
computer. Of course, they knew I was kidding.

But we do have a break coming up. We have been looking toward our
friends in the Dakotas, Montana and Wyoming urging them to push some
cooler air south. We do look for a cool front to approach NW Alabama
very early Thursday. We will still have some scattered showers and
thunderstorms on Thursday, however, on Friday only a slight chance of
showers and storms and mostly in the morning.

A DIFFERENT WEEKEND: We sure have had some rainy Sundays, but this
time Saturday and Sunday will bring us model weather with lower
humidity, mostly sunshine and pleasantly cool early mornings. Here in
Central Alabama, low temperatures over the weekend will be in the
upper 50s and highs only in the low to mid 80s, but the lower humidity
will make those mid 80s seem comfortable. Meanwhile, we will still
have to deal with a good chance of showers and thunderstorms until
they thin out Friday.

SPOTLIGHTING: SCROUGEOUT That is a tiny community in NE Etowah County
atop Lookout Mountain, but still in a little depression or valley that
is called Scrougeout. Legend has it that there were once two stores in
that small community. The owners got into a price war and both had to
close. The saying was, they scrouged each other out of town. The
community is located at an elevation between 900 and 950 feet. That
means on cold winter nights, with a clear sky, they can have some
pretty low temperatures. Vic Bell is the ABC 33/40 Skywatcher that
lives there and he
gives us these interesting rain amounts. No drought at all in that area.

11.13 inches so far in May
13.65 so far in 2009
77.58 in the last 365 days beginning on May 25, 2009

GLOBAL ROAMING: There was widespread frost in the NE this morning
including Upper New York State into Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine.
The temperature dropped to 23 at Island Pond, Vermont and 26 at
Saranac Lake, New York. The coldest in the lower 48 this morning was
22 at Berlin, New Hampshire and 25 at Barter Island, Alaska. The snow
sure is melting fast in Alaska. Fairbanks reported a high of 80
yesterday and no snow.

MY TINY CORNER OF THE WORLD: With our daughter and son-in-law and our
grandkids with us, we have lots of help walking Little Miss Molly and
I welcome it. Night before last, my daughter took Molly out the back
door for a walk. Neither of them at first saw the Community Rabbit
cuddled in the corner of the yard. When Molly saw her, it was like the
shuttle being launched. She almost jerked my daughter down. Meanwhile
the leash got wrapped around my large rain gauge and it was almost
overturned. I would have lost the daily rain amount. No way to predict
what happens the minute Molly goes out. Life goes on. J. B. Elliott

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

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TONIGHT
Scattered showers and thunderstorms, mostly through the evening.
Morning Low 66
WIND: S 5-10

WEDNESDAY
Cloudy at times. A good chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Morning Low 66 Afternoon High 85
WIND: SW 6-12

THURSDAY
Warm and humid with scattered showers and storms.
Morning Low 67 Afternoon High 86
WIND: SW 6-12

FRIDAY
Partly sunny. Only a slight chance of a shower or thunderstorm.
Morning Low 63 Afternoon High 81
WIND: NW 6-12

SATURDAY
Mostly sunny and less humid with pleasant temperatures.
Morning Low 58 Afternoon High 83
WIND: N 6-12

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