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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Afternoon Edition For Thursday July 23, 2009
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..Two Dry Days...

HUMIDITY DROPS AGAIN: We are still not calling it a cool front,
instead a frontal boundary. It slowly pushed into North Alabama
yesterday and ever so slowly pushed its way toward the SE reaching the
SE part of the state this afternoon. There was quite a bit of
difference in the weather across Alabama this afternoon with dry and
less humid weather over the north, but with some scattered
thunderstorms along and near the front over the SE part of the state.
A few of those storms were occurring as far north as Chambers County,
but most of them were further SE.

WHAT ABOUT THAT FRONT: We expect it to stall this weekend near the
Alabama/Florida border and completely lose its identity. It will
become an unknown. Meanwhile, warmer and more humid air will be
spreading north-eastward across the state. Here in Central Alabama we
will get enough of a change to set off scattered showers and
thunderstorms Sunday and Monday. There will also be some around at
least through the middle of next week. However, we will have two days
of mostly sunshine Friday and Saturday with lower humidity and
pleasantly cool nights. Lows will be in the mid 60s, but the high just
above 90.

24-HOUR RAIN REPORTS: You can blame the showers on that slow-moving
frontal boundary, but a lot of people are still glad to get some rain.
Here are a few selected amounts from yesterday and last evening:

1.03 Cullman Agricultural Station
0.60 Athens
0.68 Huntsville/UAH
0.66 Russellville
0.62 Cordova
0.39 Birmingham Airport
That sent the total so far this month at Birmingham Airport to 6.44
inches and to an impressive total of 9.47 inches in the last 7 weeks.

TROPICAL AND BEACH WEATHER: Those minor disturbances off the SE USA
coast combined into a broad area of low pressure. While there was
widespread cloudiness and showers, it was disorganized. The NHC
continues their thoughts of unfavourable conditions for a tropical
cyclone, but the low could become an extratropical center for gale
winds. Meanwhile, across our friend, the Gulf of Mexico, sea surface
temperatures are attractive if a tropical system ever develops. The
water temperature was 87 across the East Gulf and 89 in the mid Gulf.

Because that frontal boundary is going to stall near the coast, there
will be some scattered showers and thunderstorms each day all the way
through the weekend for the Alabama/NW Florida beaches. Not an all-day
rain. High temperatures will vary between 88 and 92.

GLOBAL ROAMING: The Southern Hemisphere is in the middle of winter.
Very pleasant in Aukland, New Zealand with highs in the 50s and lows
in the 40s. by contrast, 112 in Baghdad. Phoenix over 100, 22 times
this month.

MY TINY CORNER OF THE WORLD: Thanks to Brenda Abernathy in Moundville
for a nice invitation for James Spann and I to attend the annual
Stewart-Havana Volunteer Fire Department Rodeo. Gates open at 6:00
p.m. Friday and Saturday at Havana on Highway 69 six miles south of
Moundville. I sure would love to be there, but it looks impossible. I
have still got to get down to Moundville one day and check out the
legendary Miss Melissa Café. Little Miss Molly has never been to where
I grew up. Got to take her down one day and let her roam around
kinfolks farm. She has never done anything like that and I believe it
would be the highlight of her life—almost like a wild escape. She
sure has gotten a lot of sleep since the wildest ever ballgame
yesterday. We will do another one later this afternoon. Life goes on.

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

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TONIGHT
Mostly clear and a little cooler.
Morning Low 64
WIND: NW 3-6

FRIDAY
Sunny and less humid.
Morning Low 64 Afternoon High 90
WIND: N 5-10

SATURDAY
Mostly sunny. A hot afternoon.
Morning Low 67 Afternoon High 92
WIND: SW 5-10

SUNDAY
Cloudy at times with scattered showers and thunderstorms.
Morning Low 70 Afternoon High 89
WIND: SW 7-14

MONDAY
Mostly cloudy with scattered showers and thunderstorms.
Morning Low 70 Afternoon High 87
WIND: W 7-14

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