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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Afternoon Edition For Tuesday November 10, 2009
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...The Excitement Winding...

A GENUINE BONA FIDE SOAKING: Her name was Ida. Earlier today she lost
her license and privilege to be a tropical hurricane or a tropical
storm. She was demoted to tropical depression stage and she will
continue to slowly lose her tropical characteristics.

She surely is not giving up easily, even though the leftover
circulation was down in South Alabama. She was pumping plenty of
moisture northward and rain was still widespread over most of the
north half of Alabama this afternoon. The exception was in the NW
counties where some drier air was being pulled into the circulation.

Almost every part of the state received a good rain. So much so, that
some flooding problems developed. By tomorrow, we will have a better
handle on the storm total, but here are a few samples as of noon today:

2.82 Birmingham Airport
1.91 Roebuck
3.37 Shelby County Airport
3.61 Mobile
2.37 Montgomery
2.44 Tuscaloosa
4.00 Tri-County (where Jefferson, St. Clair and Blount join)
2.87 Trussville (Peppertree)

NOW WHAT: The rain will persist into the evening, but gradually end
overnight. Clouds will break up Wednesday leaving mostly sunshine for
Veterans Day. It will be breezy and cool with north winds 12-22 mph.
From Thursday through Saturday, it will be mostly sunshine with cool
nights, but milder afternoons.

ROAMING: The warmest in the USA yesterday was 87 at Yuma and East
Mesa, Arizona…coldest this morning included 11 at Pinedale, Wyoming
and 27 below zero at Arctic Village, Alaska…the latest snow survey
shows only 3% of the lower 48 with snow on the ground. That compared
to over 13% one month ago.

DAMAGE FROM IDA: There is an old country and western song named, Ida
Red. That is how I tried to remember this hurricane. There was never a
mass evacuation from the Gulf Coast, even though some news reports had
said there would be. In one shelter on the Alabama coast, there were
only 11 people. This hurricane received good coverage and good
forecasting. We do not know how much property damage has been done. It
appears to not be major. A lot of it may be due to storm surge and
flash flooding.

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tensions in 10 seconds. Life goes on.

James B. Elliott
jb.elliott@theweathercompany.com

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TONIGHT
Breezy and cool. Rain steady at times; ending late.
Morning Low 49
WIND: N 12-20

WEDNESDAY
Becoming mostly sunny, breezy and cool.
Morning Low 49 Afternoon High 64
WIND: N 12-22

THURSDAY
Sunny and pleasant.
Morning Low 44 Afternoon High 65
WIND: NE 7-14

FRIDAY
Mostly sunny.
Morning Low 46 Afternoon High 71
WIND: NE 5-10

SATURDAY
Partly sunny.
Morning Low 48 Afternoon High 76
WIND: SE 5-10

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