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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Afternoon Edition For Thursday June 18, 2009
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...The Humming Air Conditioner...

THE HEAT PARADE CONTINUES: I guess you could call this good old-
fashioned mid-summer heat that Alabama is experiencing. Traditionally,
our hottest time of the year is the last half of July and the first
half of August when the average high temperature is around 91.
However, our current heat spell (we do not want to call it a heat
wave) is averaging 3 to 5 degrees hotter than that.

Do not look for much relief until late in the weekend and early next
week. Even then you will not reach for a sweater because high
temperatures will still be in the lower 90s and that will probably be
the case through all of next week. The humidity is going to stay
relatively high. (Translation: not very comfortable.)

THE RAIN SITUATION: The topsoil is drying rapidly with all of this
sunshine and heat. We do not look for any thunderstorms until a few
Sunday afternoon and again Monday. However, we still are watching the
north land out of the corner of eye as a series of thunderstorms
continues to move southward affecting areas just to the east of
Alabama. Even this evening there could be some storms very close to
the Georgia/Alabama border.

SEVERE WEATHER: A Severe Thunderstorm Watch was in effect this
afternoon as close by as East Tennessee and North Georgia and most of
the Florida peninsula. The Storm Prediction Center has a huge part of
the country under a Slight Risk all the way from the Dakotas and
Minnesota southeastward to include all of Virginia, the Carolinas,
Georgia and Florida including the NE corner of Alabama. A Moderate
Risk is posted for the mountains of East Tennessee and Western North
Carolina, NE Georgia and NW South Carolina. Another Moderate Risk area
for Minneapolis and Des Moines eastward to Chicago and Indianapolis.
Tomorrow the Slight Risk area is moved northward from Missouri,
Kentucky and Virginia northward to the Great Lakes, but an unusually
Moderate Risk area is from Des Moines and Kansas City east across most
of Illinois, Indiana and Ohio.

TROPICAL WEATHER: The Atlantic Basin is quiet, however over on the
other side of Mexico in the Eastern Pacific, a tropical depression has
formed 400 miles SSW of Mazatlan, Mexico. It will make landfall in
West Mexico early Saturday.

THE OLE SUNBALL: Bet you did not notice that the sun rose 1 minute
later this morning, as we get closer to the official beginning of
summer. By the end of June the mornings will be 4 minutes shorter.

GLOBAL ROAMING: Two tornadoes in South Minnesota yesterday and some
more in Nebraska. The middle part of the country having a very rough
season. 2.64 inches of rain in Pittsburgh and 3.16 at Flint, Michigan.
It was 34 degrees this morning at Grand Canyon Airport and Stanley,
Idaho and 31 at Barter Island, Alaska.

MY TINY CORNER OF THE WORLD: I have gone the extra mile with my
Little Miss Molly the last two days spending extra time with her in
rubdowns and ballgames. She and I both are like little kids. We
sometimes chase each other around the house. Last night she jumped on
the king-sized bed and turned it into a huge playground. She was
jumping all over the bed plowing under the covers, turning flips and
pretending she was digging holes. When she got through, the bed looked
like an EF1 tornado had passed by. Our ballgame last night was so
vigorous that she called it at the end of the third inning and
immediately plopped down on the carpet and went sound asleep in less
than two minutes. In this 90-plus heat, she is not quite as anxious to
walk a full half-mile when we go around the track. After she does her
business, she will abruptly do a 180 and head home. Life goes on.

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

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TONIGHT
Fair and warm.
Morning Low 72
WIND: W 3-6

FRIDAY
Mostly sunny. Another hot afternoon.
Morning Low 72 Afternoon High 94
WIND: W 6-12

SATURDAY
Mostly sunny and hot.
Morning Low 72 Afternoon High 95
WIND: NW 6-12

SUNDAY
Partly sunny. Not as hot. An isolated afternoon thunderstorm.
Morning Low 73 Afternoon High 91
WIND: W 7-14

MONDAY
Partly sunny. A few afternoon thunderstorms.
Morning Low 71 Afternoon High 91
WIND: N 5-10

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