UPDATED 11 AM FOR STILL MORE REPORTS (Thanks to RO (Rain Officer) Michelle Miklik for helping assemble these amounts. She is a 33/40 Skywatcher in Weaver)
Big contrast in rain amounts across Alabama. Some folks got more than they wanted; other places did not get enough to make crabgrass happy.
At 9:45 this morning, heavy rain was still occurring over the SE corner of Alabama down into NW Florida and well into South and Central Georgia. However, that will move out of SE Alabama later. Much of Central and SW Alabama was rain free. Steady rain was falling from just east of Birmingham eastward to the Georgia border and up into NE Alabama. West of Birmingham, steady rain was falling as nearby as Walker, Winston and Cullman Counties. All of that was moving toward the NE.
It looks like the immediate Birmingham area will not get anywhere near the 1 inch amount that computer models were saying yesterday. Shows once again that you cannot always lean on computer models.
These rain amounts will show you the wide discrepancy:
2.99 Fairhope
2.93 Loxley
1.15 Alexandra City
2.53 WSW of Mobile
1.45 Cherokee
2.94 Daphne
3.78 three miles ENE of Orange Beach
0.50 Winfield
0.83 eight miles WSW of Russellville
3.10 14 miles south of Opelika
0.16 Weaver
0.66 Muscadine
0.16 South Gadsden/North Glencoe
0.16 Coker
0.77 NorthFork
0.08 Noccalula Falls
0.11 Broomtown
0.16 Pell City
Trace Birmingham Airport
0.21 Anniston Airport
0.03 Calera
Trace Cullman
0.09 Huntsville
1.28 Mobile
1.06 Montgomery/Dannelly Field
Trace Tuscaloosa Airport
Trace Pinson
0.35 Selma
1.84 Dothan
2.08 Troy
2.17 Mobile/Brookley Field
1.94 Auburn
1.59 Evergreen
0.67 Wadley
0.30 Martin Dam
0.53 Centre (Weiss Dam)
0.07 Gadsden
0.65 Neely-Henry Dam
0.67 Logan Martin Dam
0.80 Lay Dam
0.88 Mitchell Dam
0.43 Jordan Dam
0.05 Smith Dam
0.10 Holt Dam
0.02 Tuscaloosa/Oliver Dam
0.06 Gainesville
0.21 Livingston
By midnight last night, the Gulf Shores Skycam have recorded around 4 inches of rain. In weather patterns like this, it is always interesting atop Mt. Cheaha–the highest point in Alabama. At 9:45 this morning, the temperature was only 49 and visibility near zero because they were in the clouds. The wind was from the ENE at 25 with gusts as high as 47 mph. They have received 0.85 inches of rain just since midnight.
