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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Morning Edition For Sunday July 12, 2009
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It's a big day today for baseball fans in Birmingham as the Southern
League All-Star Home Run Derby comes to Rickwood Field. There is also
a celebrity softball tournament that starts just after 3 p.m. Our very
own James Spann will be playing in that game. Then the very best
sluggers across the Southern League, including Birmingham's Stefan
Gartrell and David Cook will square off in the exciting annual home
run contest this afternoon at 5 p.m. Then, six Barons will be on the
Southern Division roster in the 2009 Southern League All Star game at
7 p.m. Monday night at Regions Park. Catch some of the best baseball
in the country today and tomorrow.
STRONG STORMS TODAY? A cool front lies near the Kentucky/Tennessee
border this morning. As a trough deepens over the East Coast, this
boundary will become oriented in an unusual NW to SE fashion just to
our northeast. Storms will fire to our northwest and head this way in
a northwesterly flow today. The SPC thinks that some of the storms
could become severe later today across the northern third of Alabama.
Strong winds will be the main threat.

THE WEEK AHEAD: The frontal system will approach from the northeast on
Monday, triggering a fairly good chance of showers and storms,
especially over Northeast Alabama. The boundary will stall across the
area Monday night. The front will gradually wash out Tuesday and
Wednesday, and shower and storm chances will back off just a bit. But
they will be with us just the same, through the end of the week as we
remain in a northwesterly flow pattern aloft. The GFS is hanging its
hat on the development of a surface low by late Friday that will swing
just to our north on Saturday, bringing another enhanced chance of
showers and storms before high pressure has a chance to build in for
the start of the next week.

TROPICS: Currently, the tropical Atlantic is quiet. The GFS has been
trying to develop a low pressure system in the far eastern Atlantic
for several runs, but the potential for that looks doubtful. There has
been a lot of dry air just off the African coast, which tends to
suppress tropical cyclone development. Oceanic heat content values
over the eastern Atlantic are starting to go up and they do this time
of year and it is only a matter of time until we start to see those
tropical waves getting their act together. The developing El Nino is
likely to help to lower the season counts this year. But it only takes
one to make a bad season. Remember Andrew?

WEATHERBRAINS: It's a show about just that: the greatest brains in
weather and climate. Have you listened? Go to WeatherBrains.com or
download it on iTunes. It's free! We have a great slate of guests
coming up for you including a Hurricane Hunter, famed Storm Chaser
Dave Hoadley, Tom Skilling from WGN in Chicago and tornado researcher
Tim Samaras.

ON THIS DATE IN 1980: Birmingham was in the 13th day of a deadly heat
wave. The mercury had reached 100F or higher for three straight days
already. There would be five more, the longest such streak of
consecutive days in the city's history. More about the 1980 heat wave
on AlabamaWX.com. Follow my weather history tweets on Twitter. I am
@wxhistorian. 10 innings, but one AL run was chalked up to the weather.

Bill Murray
bill.murray@theweathercompany.com

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TODAY
Showers and storms.
Afternoon High 90
WIND: SW 5-10

MONDAY
Partly sunny. Scattered afternoon and evening storms.
Morning Low 72 Afternoon High 90
WIND: SW 5-10

TUESDAY
Continued hot and humid. A better chance of storms.
Morning Low 74 Afternoon High 91
WIND: SW 5-10

WEDNESDAY
Continued hot and humid. A chance of showers and storms.
Morning Low 73 Afternoon High 90
WIND: SW 5-10

THURSDAY
Partly cloudy. Isolated showers and storms.
Morning Low 73 Afternoon High 91
WIND: SW 5-10

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