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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Afternoon Edition For Sunday May 24, 2009
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...Showers For Memorial Day...

We started discussing the possibility of a low in the Gulf nearly ten
days ago, and the scenario pretty much played out as expected. That
low is moving into southeastern Arkansas early this afternoon. Here
in Alabama, we find ourselves in the moist, tropical airmass east of
the weak cyclone. The inflow overnight organized bands of showers
from south to north that produced some brief heavy rain and some
lightning. There was some concern about rotating updrafts, but
nothing materialized.

FOR YOUR SUNDAY: Those feeder bands will continue to produce showers
much of today. The actual bands will translate westward slowly with
the low. The heaviest rain during the morning was over eastern
sections and that band will move westward through the day. A second
rain band over West Alabama will probably energize as sun peeks out
between the feeder bands. There is marginal shear for rotating
updrafts over about the northeastern third of the state, generally
north of a line from Red Bay to Birmingham to east of Montgomery.
This means that a pop up tornado warning or two would not be a
surprise, although significant problems are not anticipated. This
tropical airmass is very efficient, and the rainfall will be heavy,
even in showers that don't look like much on radar. Many locations
could see another three quarters of an inch to over an inch of rain
today and tonight.

MEMORIAL DAY: We will still be in a tropical airmass tomorrow. It
should start cloudy and there could be a few nocturnal showers
around. The sun will peek through at times during the morning and the
mercury will rise into the lower 80s in most spots. A few 70s might
be recorded in wetter spots. Showers and storms will begin to develop
in earnest during the late morning and continue through the
afternoon. Rain chances tomorrow will be a little less than today,
with about a 1 in 2 chance you will get wet.

REST OF THE WEEK: What you see on Monday is about what you will get
on Tuesday, with a mix of a little sun and mostly clouds and scattered
showers and storms popping up at about anytime, but especially with
the heating of the day. Highs will be in the lower 80s. Wednesday,
Thursday and Fridayshould feature partly sunny skies and mainly
afternoon and evening storms, which is good news for the Rickwood
Classic, with a first pitch at 12:35 p.m. Wednesday at America's
oldest ballpark in Birmingham's West End. Look for a little cool
front late on Friday that could bring in a little drier air for the
weekend.

ON THIS DATE IN 2002: A month long heat wave continued to bake India
with temperatures as high as 124 degrees F. The state of Andrha
Pradesh as hardest hits with reports that as many as 624 people had
died in the heat wave by the 24th. Some reports placed the number
over 1000. Meteorologists blamed the excessive heat on hot, dry
northeasterly winds off of the desert regions. While some blamed it
on global warming, weather officials were quick to point out that heat
waves always precede the monsoons. In fact, it is the rising air of
the hot high pressure that draws the moisture-laden monsoon winds in
by early June in southern India and across the rest of the country in
the following weeks.

Bill Murray
bill.murray@theweathercompany.com

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TONIGHT
Mostly cloudy with a good chance of showers and storms. Some storms
could produce isolated brief tornadoes.
Morning Low 67
WIND: SE 8-16

MONDAY
A few peeks of sunshine, but scattered showers and storms develop.
Morning Low 68 Afternoon High 81
WIND: S 8-16

TUESDAY
Continued mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and storms.
Morning Low 68 Afternoon High 82
WIND: SW 7-14

WEDNESDAY
Partly sunny with scattered mainly afternoon and evening storms.
Morning Low 67 Afternoon High 83
WIND: SW 7-14

THURSDAY
Partly cloudy with a chance of scattered afternoon and evening showers
and storms.
Morning Low 66 Afternoon High 83
WIND: SW 6-12

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