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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Afternoon Edition For Wednesday November 11, 2009
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...Nice Weather Returns...

OVERDOSED ON RAIN: I have been involved in weather seemingly since
about the time Noah built his ark and I cannot remember an autumn that
gave us this much rain. Both September and October were wet. We got a
week-long break in early November, but it seemed like Ida was
determined to break up our clear weather party. She did a masterful
job. I love a rainy day, but yesterday was almost too much with the
wind and the rain being consistent all day.

Almost all of Alabama got a soaking. We have posted a long list of
rain amounts on the 33/40 Weather BLOG, but we list a few typical
amounts here for the last entire storm:

4.75 Odenville
5.11 Inverness
5.00 Homewood
5.54 Moody
4.58 Cottondale (Year-to-Date 69.20)
4.40 Gadsden
6.05 Demopolis
4.02 Scrougeout (Year-to-Date 74.09)

NOW WHAT: I guess Mother Nature looks out for us, because we are now
headed for another good stretch of dry weather with pleasant daytime
temperatures and cool nights. We think we will be rain free through
Sunday, although one of our beloved weather models did put a little
rain in for later Sunday. Afternoon will be comfortable and lows at
night in the low to mid 40s.

MISS IDA NOW: Her remnants were centered near Savannah this afternoon
and she is still causing plenty of trouble along the South Atlantic
coast. She gave Atlanta some record 24-hour rain amounts and that city
has some more flash flooding. She dumped 6.80 inches of rain on
Forsyth and almost 6 inches on Douglasville. By late Thursday and
early Friday, the low-pressure system that was once Ida will be near
the North Carolina Outer Banks.

FOOTBALL WEATHER: James will have a detailed football forecast
starting with our Thursday morning edition, but generally speaking, it
looks great for the Friday night play off games and the in state
college games on Saturday. You never know whom you are going to meet.
Last Saturday when my son Steve treated me to a day at Bryant-Denny
Stadium, he was able to find spare tickets from a fellow fireman in
the Jasper Fire Department. His name is Steve Lockheart. He remembered
well the super outbreak of tornadoes that heavily damaged downtown
Jasper in April 1974. In fact, he is now assigned to Station 1 in
downtown Jasper that was virtually destroyed in the earlier tornado.
He was only 9 years old at the time of the tornado. He reads our
material every day and is very interested in weather.

STORM ALERT XTREME: It is almost time. It starts at 9:30 Saturday
morning at the BJCC and will be over by 2:30. A great source of
training for storm spotters and a review even if you have been
spotting a long time. Not sure I will be there, but I always learn
something new from Brian Peters.

ROAMING: 94 at East Mesa, Arizona was the hottest yesterday…cold
spots this morning, 11 at Spincich Lake, Michigan and 32 below in
Alaska at Arctic Village and Chandalar Lake…the morning national snow
survey shows less than 3% of the lower 48 with a snow cover…a month
ago today it was almost 16%…with the heavy rain in Atlanta in the last
24 hours, their annual total has swelled to 58.63 inches—a surplus of
15 inches. The Birmingham surplus now stands at an amazing 18.22 inches.

MY TINY CORNER OF THE WORLD: An all-day rain like yesterday sure does
disrupt Little Miss Molly and her bathroom habits. She does not like
the rain. We go out anyway. Normally she would drag me halfway around
the walking track before she did anything. Yesterday she did it
instantly and then ran back to the door wanting in and expecting a
treat. Life goes on.

James B. Elliott
jb.elliott@theweathercompany.com

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TONIGHT
Clear and colder.
Morning Low 42
WIND: N 5-10

THURSDAY
Sunny. A chilly morning.
Morning Low 42 Afternoon High 65
WIND: N 8-16

FRIDAY
Sunny.
Morning Low 42 Afternoon High 72
WIND: N 5-10

SATURDAY
Mostly sunny.
Morning Low 45 Afternoon High 73
WIND: E 5-10

SUNDAY
Partly sunny.
Morning Low 51 Afternoon High 74
WIND: SW 6-12

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