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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Afternoon Edition For Tuesday July 7, 2009
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TWO GREAT BASEBALL EVENTS!

Southern League All-Star Game
Monday, July 13 7:00 pm
Regions Park

Southern League Home Run Derby and
Celebrity Softball Game 3:00 pm
Sunday, July 12
Rickwood Field

For tickets, call 205-988-3200 or
http://www.barons.com
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...Nonchalant Weather...

MUNDANE IS THE WORD: Just not a lot of excitement in Alabama weather
over the next few days. The last front to silently slip into the state
was stalled today in a west to east position directly across the
geographic center of Alabama. The problem that gives for forecasting
is exactly where the northern edge of some showers and thunderstorms
will be. We think much of the north half of Alabama will be free of
showers or storms for the remainder of today and tonight. Down south,
they will still get some. In fact, scattered storms were in progress
this afternoon from about Montgomery southward including some locally
heavy showers. They were moving east.
There is almost always a fly in the ointment in this business of
weather forecasting. This time it is a small weak low-pressure area
expected to develop and be centered over SW Alabama tomorrow and
moving further east on Thursday. So, what does that mean? It means we
could see some showers, mainly over on the east side of the state,
tomorrow. We do not think they will be very numerous or very heavy.
There could still be a few over near the Georgia border on Thursday.

Meanwhile, it is going to get hotter and by Friday and Saturday high
temperatures should top out in the mid 90s. Not unusual at all for the
second week of July.
How about Dothan where the old thermometer has insisted on going above
the 100-degree mark almost every day lately. Yesterday they could only
manage 81 degrees because they were drenched with 1.44 inches of rain.
Troy had a high of only 79 and 2.65 inches.

TROPICAL AND BEACH WEATHER: In the Great Atlantic Basin, which
includes the Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean and our dear friend, the
Gulf of Mexico, there are no indications that Tropical Storm Ana is
about to be born. The Gulf of Mexico waters are plenty warm and, if a
depression were to form, it would have plenty of ammunition as far as
the water temperatures are concerned. Data buoys show a water
temperature of 87 in the mid-Gulf, 86 in the East Gulf and 89 off
shore from the Mississippi coast. Along the Alabama/NW Florida coast,
they will still have a good chance of showers and thunderstorms again
tomorrow, but thinning out a great deal starting on Thursday. High
temperatures will be in the upper 80s along the beaches and in the
lower 90s not far inland.

FOCUS ON NEEDLES: That is a city on the lower Colorado River in the
heart of the California Desert. They only get 5 inches of rain a year
on average. Their average daily high in July is 109 and the average
low 83. Yesterday afternoon, when their temperature reached 112, the
dew point at the time was only 11. This gave a humidity of only 3%, so
the heat index was 12 degrees cooler than the actual temperature. Not
that unusual for that to happen in the desert. Elsewhere, only 1/10 of
1 percent of the lower 48 still has snow cover. The deepest was 337
inches at Ward Creek way up in the Sierra-Nevada Mountains on the
California side. Hottest in the nation yesterday 120 in Death Valley
and the low this morning 28 at Truckee in the same state. Would you
believe that New York City has still not reached 85 degrees a single
time this year. It was only 77 yesterday out on Montauk Point. The Big
Apple has received almost 11 inches of rain in the last five weeks.

MY TINY CORNER OF THE WORLD: I sure wish I could live as long as
Methuselah in the Bible. Was it 800 years? I need that much time to
learn how to forecast weather and to get up on my reading and to play
with Little Miss Molly. I do not know what she would look like at age
800. I know one of these days we will have to put the little girl to
sleep. It will be devastating. I cannot even remotely describe the
impact that little girl has had on my life. From the time I was born,
I always wanted to live a simple, uncomplicated life and I have
succeeded. If I had not done so, Little Miss Molly would have changed
me completely 6 years ago. Life goes on. JBE

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

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TONIGHT
Mostly fair.
Morning Low 68
WIND: N 3-6

WEDNESDAY
Partly sunny. A few showers over East Alabama.
Morning Low 68 Afternoon High 91
WIND: NE 5-10

THURSDAY
Partly sunny.
Morning Low 69 Afternoon High 91
WIND: NE 5-10

FRIDAY
Partly sunny and hotter.
Morning Low 69 Afternoon High 93
WIND: S 5-10

SATURDAY
Hot and humid. An isolated afternoon thunderstorm possible.
Morning Low 70 Afternoon High 94
WIND: SW 6-12

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