Published on: October 12, 2008 at 4:26 PM

Folks down in Shelby County are observing a nice rainbow east of I-65 in the Pelham area as the sun drops in the west and showers continue to the east.

Those showers extend from southern Jefferson through Shelby County eastward through Talladega, Clay and Calhoun Counties.

Cloudiness is thickest south of a line from Vernon to Birmingham to Jacksonville, but there are some breaks in the clouds starting to show through. North of this area, skies have become partly cloudy.

Temperatures are still mostly in the 70s. A few spots that have had more sunshine will post readings around 80 before the day is out.

The showers are moving quickly to the northwest. Rainfall amounts will be very light, only amounting a couple of hundredths of an inch.