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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Afternoon Edition For Saturday October 24, 2009
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FALL FESTIVAL!

Calhoun County Extension will hold its 4th annual FALL FEST this
Saturday, October 24th, from 9am-2pm, at the Cane Creek
Community Gardens at McClellan.

Join us as for a day celebrating agricultural and homemaking skills. The
day will feature contests from the old-time country fair era, featuring
quilts, arts & crafts contest, Scarecrow building, baked goods contest
(and cakewalk), and a canning contest. The day will also feature the
Fall Farmers Market, a plant sale, as well as hayrides, inflatables, a
petting zoo and a treasure hunt for kids. There will also be a Grocery
Giveaway sponsored by the ALFA Farmer's Federation Women's
Committee. AM-810 will sponsor a Smokey Mountain Vacation
Giveaway, and live music during the day by local group "Crossroads".
Local 4H clubs, including the Trailblazers Horse Club and the Green
Team, will be there.

Bring the whole family out for a day loaded with fun! Admission is
only $1, or wear your Halloween costume and get in free. Proceeds
benefit Calhoun County 4H. More information, as well as contest rules,
can be found by logging onto http://www.aces.edu/calhoun.
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...Cool Night Ahead...

The sky will clear across Central Alabama this evening, setting the
stage for a chilly night and a beautiful Sunday. Lows will drop to
near 40F on average, with the normally colder spots getting into the
middle and upper 30s. Frost is possible in some of those locations.

NICE LOOKING SUNDAY/MONDAY: Tomorrow looks like a nice fall day,
with sunshine filled skies and temperatures in the upper 60s to near
70 degrees. That's about average for this part of October. Monday
looks very nice as well, with highs in the lower 70s, after a seasonal
start in the middle 40s for the most part. But clouds will increase
late in the day in advance of our next storm system.

THE WEEK AHEAD: The morning run of the GFS is a little more bullish
on rain chances for Tuesday afternoon as a developing low slides
northward to our west. That system will quickly pass and Wednesday
looks like a partly cloudy, mild and fairly humid day, but it should
be mostly dry. Clouds will increase Wednesday night and rain and
storms will return on Thursday. We could see an inch of rain or more
on average with this system, but the good news is that it should move
out early Friday morning, setting the stage for a nice race weekend.
Halloween trick or treaters will find nearly perfect conditions
Saturday night. Race day looks perfect.

TROPICS: The disturbance over the Bahamas hasn't been able to
develop because of dry air. It will be absorbed by a frontal system
off the East Coast. The Air Force Reserve recon mission has been
cancelled.

MOSCOW SNOW WATCH: The Mayor of Moscow has promised no major snows in
the Russian city this winter. He has authorized the Russian Air Force
to seed the clouds in storm systems destined for the city. My
prediction: there will be some fired Russian Air Force officers before
this winter is over. We will be watching.

WEATHERBRAINS: This week's show will feature a fun visit with the
original cast of the PBS show AM Weather, from the 70s and 80s. I
will also have a look back at the top ten takeaways from the National
Weather Association meeting in Norfolk last week. The panelists will
weigh in with their opinions on the research. Listen at www.WeatherBrains.com
or subscribe at iTunes. It's free!

ON THE DATE IN 200: Normally residents of the northern Plains don't
have to worry about snow shovels and snowmobiles until later in the
season, but a freak blizzard dropped one foot of snow on parts of the
area on this date in 2001. Drifts piled up to two feet across the
area. Grand Forks, ND reported eleven inches of snow to establish a
new October snowfall record. Schools were closed and four hundred
motorists were stranded on I-29 north of Fargo, ND. The same powerful
storm system also produced an outbreak of severe weather across the
Great Lakes and Mississippi Valley. At least twelve tornadoes touched
down during the afternoon hours across parts of northern Indiana,
southern Lower Michigan and western Ohio, including two F3 tornadoes.
Several of the tornadoes had path lengths of at least thirty miles.
The outbreak of tornadoes was the largest in the area in 27 years.
One person died in LaPorte County, IN. Follow my weather history
tweets on Twitter.com @ wxhistorian.

Bill Murray
bill.murray@theweathercompany.com

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TONIGHT
Clear and cool.
Morning Low 48
WIND: Light

SUNDAY
Mostly sunny. A chilly morning.
Morning Low 39 Afternoon High 69
WIND: NE 5-10

MONDAY
A sunny start. Increasing clouds late. Chance of an overnight shower.
Morning Low 44 Afternoon High 73
WIND: E 6-12

TUESDAY
Rain likely. A slight chance of a thunderstorm.
Morning Low 48 Afternoon High 70
WIND: NE 6-12

WEDNESDAY
Partly sunny.
Morning Low 49 Afternoon High 74
WIND: S 7-14

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