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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Afternoon Edition For Wednesday January 27, 2010
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...A Variety Of Weather...

RAIN AND THEN MUCH COLDER: Central Alabama will have a variety of changeable weather over the next several days and this includes some wintry precipitation for the extreme north. We have two things taking aim at us. A low-pressure system forming over the NW Gulf and west of our area will be over Louisiana by Friday morning. The center will move eastward across South Alabama and into South Georgia by Saturday morning. Meanwhile, a good dose of arctic air will be pushing southward and entering Alabama by Friday. This creates some worrisome forecast problems. For Central Alabama, we think this will be how the story pans out:

Cold again tonight with near freezing, milder Thursday with upper 50s. Clouds will increase later with a slight chance of rain Thursday night. Our main event will be Friday and Friday night. A cold rain will become widespread and the rain will be heavy at times. As the colder air moves in, we may see a mix of light snow or light sleet with the rain Friday night. You will really feel the arctic air on Saturday with north winds 12-25 mph and temperatures in the 30s all day. By Sunday, sunshine will return, but we will have an early morning hard freeze with temperatures in the low 20s and maybe some teens in the NE Alabama valleys.

TRAVEL PROBLEMS: We do not think so here in Central Alabama. It could be a different story up in the Tennessee Valley. The NWS in Huntsville is calling for rain changing to light sleet and freezing rain after midnight Thursday night. On Friday, the rain should mix with light freezing rain during the morning. Friday night they are forecasting light freezing rain and widespread light sleet in the evening and light freezing rain after midnight. Some snow and light sleet during the morning.

WINTER WEATHER OVERVIEW: Numerous counties are under some kind of wintry weather threat all the way from Arizona and Utah across New Mexico, North Texas, all of Oklahoma, most of Arkansas, extreme North Mississippi and most of Tennessee. Some places will have serious travel problems, especially in parts of Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee and West Kentucky. Would you believe that SE Arizona is going to get 6 to 10 inches of new snow in the mountains tonight? That is the same area where the NWS/Tucson issued a Blizzard Warning last week. 4-8 inches of new snow for the north rim of the Grand Canyon where the snow is already very deep.

ROAMING: 79 was the warmest in the USA yesterday in Kingsville, Texas...13 below was the coldest this morning at Longville and Agassiz, Minnesota...it was 25 below at Atqasuk, Alaska.

STORM ALERT 2010: The first program is Thursday night at the First Baptist Church in Winfield. It starts at 7:00 p.m. The 33/40 weather team will be there with a lot of good stories and some prizes. The next edition is on Tuesday, February 2 at the Gadsden Convention Hall. That is the only one this year that is not on Thursday.

MY TINY CORNER OF THE WORLD: When Little Miss Molly came to live with us about 6 years ago, she immediately won me over. On our very first walk at daybreak, we noticed a very tall discombobulated barren tree—the tallest one in the community. Two old crows were on opposite sides of the tree arguing at the top of their voices—probably divorce was proceeding. Little Miss Molly stopped and watched intently. We named it the Old Crow Motel. We have a tendency to name everything. The old motel has been empty most of the time lately, except this morning there were at least 25 very small birds hopping around through all the rooms (er, limbs) and singing. They had to be no older than kindergarten age. Molly again took it all in. Life goes on.

J.B. Elliott
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TONIGHT
Fair and cold.
Morning Low 32
WIND: S 4-6

THURSDAY
A milder afternoon. Clouds increase late. Slight chance of rain at night.
Morning Low 32 Afternoon High 59
WIND: W 7-14

FRIDAY
Breezy with a cold rain becoming widespread. May mix with light snow or sleet Friday night.
Morning Low 38 Afternoon High 47
WIND: NE 10-20

SATURDAY
Windy and colder. Lingering light snow or flurries mainly through the morning.
Morning Low 33 Afternoon High 36
WIND: N 12-25

SUNDAY
Sunshine. A cold morning.
Morning Low 22 Afternoon High 46
WIND: NE 5-10

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