ABC 33/40 E-Forecast

ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Afternoon Edition For Monday May 11, 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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...Unsettled Weather...

ACTIVE WEATHER PATTERN CONTINUES: Not a dull moment in Alabama
weather for a long time and the active weather pattern will continue
for at least through the weekend and into early next week. This does
not mean that we will have big booming thunderstorms every day nor an
all-day rain any day. However, it does mean that we cannot leave out
the mention of some showers or thunderstorms every day.

Today there was a stalled front all the way from West Texas eastward
across North Louisiana, the central parts of Mississippi, Alabama and
Georgia and into South Carolina. That stalled front has been sort of a
conduit for showers and storms the last few days. Sunday afternoon
there was some scattered wind damage over SE Alabama and some
torrential rain across Central Alabama cutting visibility to just a
few feet. Another batch of storms moved down across SW and South
Alabama Sunday night.

Today a train of showers and storms moving east along that stalled
front moved across Louisiana and Central Mississippi. The showers
spread out across Central Alabama this afternoon and were not very
heavy.

OKAY ON RAIN AMOUNTS: Most places in Alabama are doing okay so far
this year on rain totals. In Decatur, measurable rain has occurred on
7 of the first 10 days of May for a total of 8.62 inches. Huntsville
has received 8.34 inches in the last 10 days. All communities are not
that lucky--in Tuscaloosa, only 1.75 inches and in Mobile 1.03.
That stalled front will gradually push more to the south and stall
again. By daybreak Tuesday, it will start north again and by Wednesday
morning will be diagonally across the state from SE to NW. This will
increase our chances of showers and thunderstorms. Check our day-by-
day forecast for all of the details.

RARE TORNADO IN VERMONT: Bonnie Jackson, one of our daily readers at
Saranac Lake, New York, passed along a news report of a rare tornado
at Washington, Vermont Saturday. An apartment building was unroofed.
It left a half-mile path of destruction snapping and uprooting trees.
The NWS rated it an EF2. Unusual thing about that—Vermont only gets an
average of 1 tornado every two years.

HIGHLIGHTS FROM ELSEWHERE: Massive flash flooding in West Virginia
over the weekend. Some reports say 1,600 homes destroyed or damaged. A
State of Emergency was declared in six counties. Cold spots in the USA
this morning: 20 in Yellowstone National Park and 13 at Barter Island,
Alaska. Our daily check on Whittier snow amount—it has melted down to
38 inches. Only 3.5% of the lower 48 states still have a snow cover.

MY TINY CORNER OF THE WORLD: Worked all day Sunday doing radio
updates watching the thunderstorms. Got a good nap after about 8:00 in
my favorite chair. Finally to bed at 4:00 a.m. Little Miss Molly had
moved over on my side of the bed and curled up with her tiny head on
my pillow just like a 9-pound human. When we pick her up and move her,
she will let out a long groan clearly in protest. In the semi-
darkness, she could see me walking toward the bed and started a
distinct moan when I was 5-feet away. I moved her over to the other
side of the bed and she got over her protest quickly. 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
A bit cooler. Mostly cloudy with a chance of a shower or a thunderstorm.
Morning Low 56
WIND: NE 4-8

TUESDAY
Partly sunny. Widely scattered showers and thunderstorms.
Morning Low 56 Afternoon High 78
WIND: SE 6-12

WEDNESDAY
Scattered showers and thunderstorms.
Morning Low 63 Afternoon High 81
WIND: S 10-16

THURSDAY
Partly sunny with scattered showers and storms.
Morning Low 65 Afternoon High 83
WIND: S 7-14

FRIDAY
Mostly cloudy with occasional showers and thunderstorms.
Morning Low 65 Afternoon High 82
WIND: SW 6-12

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