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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Afternoon Edition For Wednesday December 30, 2009
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...No Weather For Tank Tops...

KEEP YOUR COAT HANDY: Alabama is entering a period of long drawn out cold weather. There will be some days when the temperatures recover to the 40s and 50s. From all the data our weather group can absorb, it looks like night-time temperatures will be below freezing at least for the next 7 or 8 nights. That is a bit unusual for winter in Alabama. This includes some lows in the low 20s over the weekend and maybe some upper teens in the first part of next week. Days will also be rather chilly, so this is going to be a period when your heating bill will ramp up. You might need to double check your outside pipes, take care of the pets and check on elderly friends. This is not a historic cold wave, but it is the longest period of cold weather we have had this season as well as the lowest temperatures by this weekend.

WHY ALL THE COLD: You have to look at the entire North American weather pattern to determine that. The highs and lows have arranged themselves with an intense low moving up the east coast and a strong high-pressure area building southward from Southern Canada all the way into the south. This will keep our wind blowing from out of the NW for the next several days, thus no real warm-ups.

PRECIPITATION: No big snow event out of this, but a steady cold rain will continue tonight and part of Thursday morning. A change to colder Thursday night might permit a mix of a few flurries after midnight and into early Friday morning. New Year's Day, however, will feature clearing, windy and much colder weather. The weekend looks cold and dry.

DRIVING ON SNOW: I have a good friend who lives in North Utah near the Idaho border. He reports heavy snow this morning—their first classic snowstorm of the season. He said that yesterday when they only had about ½ inch, the roads were slick. There were many slide offs and accidents. There were over 190 incidents along the Wasatch front highways, which proves again that people in all corners of the USA have trouble driving on icy roads.

ROAMING NORTH AMERICA: Additional snow has fallen in the last 24 hours and the snow cover has advanced further south into West Texas and almost all of New Mexico. The snow blanket is now solid from Oklahoma and Missouri north to Canada. 21 inches of new snow in the last 24 hours at Pittsville, Vermont. The official NWS snow survey this morning shows that 64% of the lower 48 states have a blanket of snow. That is the most so far this season and is rather unusual for this early in the winter...cold temperatures this morning included 26 below at Ft. Yukon, Alaska and 15 below at Wolf Point, Montana. That place is out on the wide open plains of NE Montana not far from the Canadian border. Absolutely nothing to hold back the cold air invasion except a few fences and maybe some tumbleweeds.

MY TINY CORNER OF THE WORLD: The majority owner is not feeling well and she kept Little Miss Molly awake most of the night. So, Molly did the unusual by going back to bed and sleeping most of the morning. On our one-half walk this morning, I did some highly scientific research and I am wondering if she needs a puppy-chiatrist. I counted 22 times when she left the walking track to do extensive sniffing of nothing but twigs and dead leaves. She avoided that twig that back-lashed her yesterday and hit her in the rear end. She will sometimes sniff one leaf for two minutes. She seems compelled to go to the bathroom on every one of those. After three or four stops, she only has one or two drops left for each leaf. Even so, between stops, she was pulling me along the track so fast that her hind legs were drooping and her rear end was almost dragging the concrete like a mule pulling an overloaded wagon. I let her be the boss every morning and i think she knows that. Life goes on.

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

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TONIGHT
A steady cold rain.
Morning Low 43
WIND: SE 7-14

THURSDAY
Rain mostly during the morning. Colder Thursday night. Could be a brief mix of light rain and light snow after midnight. No problems.
Morning Low 43 Afternoon High 54
WIND: NW 8-16

FRIDAY
A few early morning flurries. Clearing, windy and colder.
Morning Low 34 Afternoon High 39
WIND: NW 12-25

SATURDAY
A morning hard freeze. A mostly sunny day.
Morning Low 24 Afternoon High 46
WIND: N 8-16

SUNDAY
Partly sunny and cold.
Morning Low 23 Afternoon High 43
WIND: NW 6-12

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