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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Afternoon Edition For Wednesday October 21, 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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...Back To Wet Weather...

THE ALABAMA STORY: It is a story of being very thankful for several
days of utopia weather with crisp clear skies, cool and even frosty
nights, and great visibility.

As always, it cannot last forever, so here we go back to what we are
most used to this year—another rain event. Clouds had already spread
east across the Mississippi River this afternoon and clouds will be
increasing across Alabama overnight. It will not be as cool with lows
by morning in the mid 50s. Not much sunshine for Thursday with highs
in the mid 70s. There will be a chance of showers at some point in the
afternoon with showers and thunderstorms increasing Thursday night.
Friday looks to be our main event for wet weather and a lot of rain
along with a few thunderstorms. Rain will be heavy at times. Over the
48-hour period from Thursday afternoon through Friday, Central Alabama
stands a good chance of getting about 1.50 inches of rain.

THE WEEKEND: Very much like last weekend. A cool front will have
passed through most of the state overnight Friday and will be
pushing into the North Gulf of Mexico. This will give us brisk NW
winds of 10-20 mph and cooler temperatures. Clouds will hang tough for
part of the day, but we now look for some afternoon sunshine on
Saturday. Because of that, we have raised our high temperature for
Saturday to 63 instead of 59. Sunday should be a day that we all like
with mostly sunshine, cool morning with a low of 44 and a high near
70. Monday and Tuesday also look dry with pleasant temperatures.

TROPICAL WEATHER: Hurricane Rick used to be a real powerhouse
sporting sustained winds of 160 mph or greater making him a Category
5. Today he is only a shadow of himself and has been downgraded to a
tropical depression fighting the mountains of Western Mexico. He may
still dump up to 10 inches of rain in some of those mountainous
locations. We may not get as much moisture entrained into our weather
system as earlier expected. Down in the SW Caribbean in Central
America, a large low-pressure area is producing showers with locally
heavy rains over a large area. There is only a small chance that it
could become a tropical depression at least for the next two days.

BARROW, ALASKA: Getting real cold in the Far North country. Barrow
this afternoon was reporting 17 degrees with snow and blowing snow and
a wind chill of 1 below. They have 3 inches on the ground. Good old
Deadhorse was reporting 20 with snow and freezing fog. The coldest in
the USA this morning was 3 at Tanana, Alaska and 20 at Stanley, Idaho.
Guyman, Oklahoma was the hottest Tuesday with 91. It is going to be
very interesting to start paying close attention to Alaska and the
Yukon Territory of NW Canada to watch for big cold air build-ups. I
have always believed that when the pressure in that area reaches
1050mb and the temperature about 50 below, that we have a greater
chance of all that rushing south and eventually reaching Alabama. No
real scientific proof.

MY TINY CORNER OF THE WORLD: Little Miss Molly, now over 7 years old,
seems to be in the best of health and I am so thankful. Someone asked
me yesterday if she had arthritis yet. No sign of that, because she
has explosive acceleration and seems to never get tired of ballgames
and walking around the track so fast that I have to lean back on the
leash. Someone has said that one of the best psychiatrists in the
world is your little dog licking your face. I sure do believe that.
Since I have been doing all of the Molly walking lately, I have lost
14 pounds in 3 weeks. Some of that is due to having all 150 of my
teeth pulled to prepare for full dentures. I have been living on
smashed potatoes, soup, some ice cream, Vienna sausage and Buffalo
Rock. Not bad. I could live on that forever. Life goes on.

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

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TONIGHT
Clouds increase overnight. Not as cool.
Morning Low 54
WIND: SE 3-6

THURSDAY
Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the afternoon with showers and
thunderstorms increasing Thursday night.
Morning Low 54 Afternoon High 75
WIND: SE 7-14

FRIDAY
Numerous showers and a few thunderstorms. Rain heavy at times.
Morning Low 64 Afternoon High 72
WIND: SE 12-22

SATURDAY
Cloudy, breezy and cooler, but some afternoon sunshine.
Morning Low 49 Afternoon High 63
WIND: NW 10-20

SUNDAY
Mostly sunny. A cool morning.
Morning Low 44 Afternoon High 70
WIND: NE 5-10

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