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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Afternoon Edition For Monday May 4, 2009
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...Getting Some Rest...

TYPICAL MAY WEATHER: What a weekend! We were overloaded with
thunderstorms Saturday and Sunday. This means that weather people
worked long, long fast-moving hours with little hope of getting much
rest. I do not mind, because I have been doing that for many years.
There were numerous severe thunderstorm warnings Saturday and Sunday
as well as a number of tornado warnings.

One of the most interesting things Sunday was a derecho. Sunday
morning, it was out in Texas, it raced eastward all day Sunday,
eventually winding up in West Georgia late Sunday afternoon. Derecho
is a Spanish word meaning straight ahead. It is a long-lived windstorm
associated with a line of severe thunderstorms. It usually does not
have the rotary winds of a tornado. In extreme cases, wind gusts in a
derecho can reach 150 mph. The one Sunday was unusually long. When
they bulge out in the middle with the center point of the line trying
to race ahead that is when the danger becomes extreme.

About 10 years ago I was on the air on about 7 Birmingham radio
stations doing a continuous warning as one of those raced eastward
from Mississippi and the bulging out part was headed straight for
Birmingham. I constantly warned everyone to get off the highway and
take shelter. It roared through the city at midafternoon uprooting
hundreds and hundreds of trees and producing wind gusts of 99 mph at
Legion Field. The worst part of the one Sunday went across the central
part of the state. I am a big numbers guy and I would take a wild
guess that at least 10 to 20 thousand trees were blown down between
East Texas and West Georgia yesterday. In just one Alabama county,
officials in Perry County reported thousands of trees down.

There were a few isolated tornadoes on Sunday. NWS teams are doing
surveys today and as their reports become available, we will post them
on our BLOG.

Today the weather is not as active, although there was a Tornado Watch
for the extreme south until early afternoon. Some lingering showers
persisted over East Alabama most of the morning. Anniston Airport got
over 1.50 inches of rain in the last 30 hours.
We will stay in a warm moist air mass. Check our day-by-day forecast
for the details. There will be some risk of a shower or thunderstorm
every day with the most numerous storms about Wednesday. Temperatures
will stay in the lower 80s in daytime.

MISCELLANEOUS: Alaska had a very cool summer last year. In Anchorage,
the temperature did not reach 70 for the first time until July 2.
Yesterday they reached 70 for the first time—exactly two months
earlier. Does that mean they are going to have a warm summer? Coldest
in Alaska this morning was 6 at Barter Island. The snow cover at
Whittier, which was over 100 inches a month ago, is down to 45 inches.

MY TINY CORNER OF THE WORLD: My dear friend, Little Miss Molly, is
matching wits with me and she is winning. She has now taken over my
favorite chair. Normally when she comes over and puts her paws on my
knee, she is expecting a bathroom break. Now it means get up and let
me have your chair. That has happened three times already today. With
all the storms, I have not played a single ballgame with her in three
days. Yesterday when the first peal of thunder echoed around the
community, she was in my chair and took off like an ambulance for her
hideout upstairs, which is under a desk. Life goes on.

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

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TONIGHT
Mostly cloudy. A chance of a shower or thunderstorm.
Morning Low 63
WIND: S 4-8

TUESDAY
Partly sunny. A slight chance of a shower or storm.
Morning Low 63 Afternoon High 80
WIND: SW 6-12

WEDNESDAY
Mostly cloudy with a good chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Morning Low 64 Afternoon High 81
WIND: SW 6-12

THURSDAY
Partly sunny. Scattered showers and thunderstorms.
Morning Low 65 Afternoon High 83
WIND: W 5-10

FRIDAY
Scattered showers and thunderstorms.
Morning Low 66 Afternoon High 82
WIND: SW 6-12

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