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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Morning Edition For Monday June 15, 2009
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...Getting Hotter...

Will it be four straight days with thunderstorm complexes roaming
across the Deep South? We will eagerly be watching radars to the
northwest of Alabama today and tonight. Some things are in our favor,
including the fact that the airmass between here and Kansas has been
worked over by more derechos in the past three days than we normally
see in a year.

YOUR FORECAST: Skies will be partly cloudy today, unless we get one
of those MCVs, or MCCs, or MCSs, or whatever alphabet soup of a storm
complex that Mother Nature throws our way. High temperatures will
depend on clouds and rainfall. I think most spots will see 90 today.
That will be a sign of things to come. Temperatures will be heating
up over the next several days as a ridge of high pressure builds over
Alabama. Temperatures will rise into the lower and middle 90s as
times during the week ahead. The rains that we have experienced over
this weekend will not only help our grass and gardens grow, but it
will also help to limit the extreme temperatures that we might have
experienced had it been drier. It takes a lot of solar energy to dry
up all that moisture, which is a good thing. We have been seeing
signs that a front could arrive by the weekend, but that looks iffy.

VORTEX 2 NOT A SUCCESS? The VORTEX 2 field experiment ended
Saturday, after only capturing one tornadic storm. It was an EF2 in
Wyoming on June 5th. So while you might think the project was a
failure, the research teams actually may have learned more than we
think. The goal was to learn as much as possible about why some
supercell storms don't produce tornadoes. They had quite a few of
those. They will be
back at it next spring.

TONIGHT'S GUEST ON WEATHERBRAINS: Tonight we talk hurricanes on
WeatherBrains episode 177 as author Jay Barnes joins the panel for a
discussion of some famous and some not-so-famous hurricanes. Jay is
the author of Florida's Hurricane History and North Carolina's
Hurricane History. Both are comprehensive annals of both states'
hurricane-prone histories.

IN THE TROPICS: The tropics are quiet, much as you would expect for
mid-June. The last half of June is not very busy on average. Even in
the busy period since 1995, only four named systems have occurred in
the last half of June. Nothing is threatening to develop into a
tropical cyclone in the immediate future.

ON THIS DATE IN 1991: Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines blew its top
beginning a rampage that would hurl debris as high as 100,000 feet
into the sky. The series of eruptions would be the most violent
volcanic eruption of the twentieth century. Material from the
eruption would spread around the globe, leading to climate changes
worldwide as the sun's energy was blocked out and global temperatures
cooled by as much as 1 degree F. The most violent eruptions coincided
with the arrival of Typhoon Yuma. The resultant heavy rains mixed
with the heavy ash falls to encase everything in thick layers of a
concrete-like substance. Nine hundred people were killed in the
Philippines as a result of the eruptions and 200,000 were left homeless.

Bill Murray
bill.murray@theweathercompany.com

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TODAY
Partly cloudy with a chance of a storm.
Afternoon High 90
WIND: W 6-12

TUESDAY
Partly cloudy and hotter. A slight chance of a storm.
Morning Low 70 Afternoon High 93
WIND: W 6-12

WEDNESDAY
Partly cloudy and hot. An isolated storm possible.
Morning Low 72 Afternoon High 94
WIND: W 6-12

THURSDAY
Continued hot. Partly cloudy with a slight chance of a storm.
Morning Low 71 Afternoon High 95
WIND: W 6-12

FRIDAY
Partly cloudy. Isolated PM storms.
Morning Low 72 Afternoon High 94
WIND: SW 6-12

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