ABC 33/40 E-Forecast

ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Morning Edition For Friday August 7, 2009
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...Air Quality Alert Today...

Strong high pressure over Alabama is producing a very stable airmass.
Unfortunately, stable can quickly become stagnant, and that will be
the case this time as well. The Alabama Partners for Clean Air have
issued a Code Orange Air Quality Alert for Friday for Jefferson and
Shelby counties. The culprit is ozone. Some actions you can take to
help the situation include: carpooling or taking the bus; postpone
unnecessary travel – combine errands; limit idling/avoid drive thrus;
mow the lawn another day; don't burn leaves or trash and don't fill
you gas tank until after 6 p.m.

HOT AND DRY AHEAD: Quite a bit of uncertainty in this forecast
package. We have a building ridge of high pressure aloft over the
southeastern United States. This ridge may not be as strong as we
previously thought and the persistent eastern trough may return more
quickly than we thought. Still, things will be hot through Sunday,
and mainly dry. It will remain dry at least through Saturday and
pretty much through Sunday. There could be an isolated storm Sunday,
with better chances as we move into the new work week.

LAST BEACH WEEKEND: Some lucky folks are grabbing a beach weekend
right before school starts back, and the weather looks like it will be
fine over the weekend. Sunny skies on Saturday and only isolated
storms on Sunday. It looks like storms will be more plentiful as we
turn the page into Monday and Tuesday. But as I always say, even a
rainy day at beach beats just about any day anywhere else.

TROPICS: The Bermuda high is not exceptionally strong this season.
This has led to a weaker set of trade winds over the tropical Atlantic
and slow poke tropical waves moving westward at 10-15 knots instead of
the more usual 15-20 knots. This tends to allow the waters to be
warmer because of less upwelling, and sea surface temperatures are a
little above normal. But dry air keeps putting the kibosh on any
waves that try to get their act together. One is about 700 miles
east of the islands this morning. Chances are low that it will
develop into a tropical cyclone. In the Pacific, Felicia will
affect the big island of Hawaii on Monday as a depression or weak storm.

WEATHERBRAINS EPISODE 186: August 17th will be the 40th anniversary
of Hurricane Camille hitting the Mississippi Coast. I need a couple
of survivors or civic officials from one of the towns along the coast
like Pass Christian, Bay St. Louis, Waveland or Biloxi. If you know
of such a person, would you contact me atbill.murray@theweathercompany.com
?

ON THIS DATE IN 1980: After weakening near Haiti and Jamaica,
Hurricane Allen was again strengthening and a minimum pressure of 899
mb (26.55 inches) was recorded by a NOAA aircraft on the 7th when it
was off the Yucatan Peninsula. Only Hurricane Gilbert with the all
time low pressure reading of 888 mb in 1988, and the infamous Labor
Day hurricane of 1935 with a central pressure of 892 mb were lower
than Allen's 899 mb central pressure. With 1979's Hurricane Frederic
still fresh on their minds, emergency managers and residents along the
Gulf Coast were already fretting about Allen. The bridge to Dauphin
Island was still out, and evacuation measures were already being
considered.

Bill Murray
bill.murray@theweathercompany.com

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TODAY
Mostly sunny and hot.
Afternoon High 94
WIND: SE 5-10

SATURDAY
Partly cloudy and continued hot.
Morning Low 71 Afternoon High 95
WIND: S 5-10

SUNDAY
Partly cloudy. Hot with an isolated storm or two.
Morning Low 72 Afternoon High 92
WIND: S 5-10

MONDAY
Partly sunny. Scattered afternoon and evening showers and storms.
Morning Low 72 Afternoon High 91
WIND: SW 5-10

TUESDAY
Scattered showers and storms.
Morning Low 72 Afternoon High 90
WIND: SW 6-12

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