At mid-morning, there was a moderate to heavy shower near Springville in the west edge of St. Clair County and over SE Blount County moving eastward into St. Clair County.
However, the main rain area extended from West Jefferson, across Tuscaloosa, Pickens, Greene and North Hale County in West Central Alabama. This fairly large rain area was moving ESE. The heaviest rain was passing north of Meridian. This will cross the Mississippi-Alabama border into West Alabama’s Sumter County.
RAINFALL AMOUNTS
You may not want to wade through all of these, but I think most folks are still very interested in rain amounts because of our on-going drought. We caution that some of these amounts are for the full last 24 hours, while some others are just since midnight and some were yesterday’s totals. We will not try to sort them out–we are as happy as a little kid in a candy store to report them.
NOTE: We may add additional reports as the morning goes on. Those add-ons will be at the end of the list.
0.38 in Ashland
0.32 Alexander City
0.57 Anniston (Alabama Power)
0.18 Smith Dam
1.15 Ashville
0.64 Blue Pond
0.67 Bald Rock (Cook Springs area)
0.07 Blountsville
0.74 Bankhead Lock and Dam
0.13 Blount Springs
0.77 Logan Martin Dam
0.21 Childersburg
0.32 Lay Dam
1.39 Cordova
0.18 Centre (Weiss Dam)
0.11 Carbon Hill
0.97 Dearmandville (east of Anniston)
0.65 Aliceville
0.92 Ft. Payne
0.89 Gadsden Steam Plant
0.61 Gaylesville
0.41 Horseshoe Bend
1.12 Haleyville
0.68 Oneonta
1.47 Henry Dam (Ohatchee area)
0.37 Roanoke
0.63 Steele (extreme north St. Clair County)
1.11 Martin Dam
0.26 Trafford
0.41 Mitchell Dam
0.77 Wadley
0.37 Jordan
2.30 Guin (overnight amount, 5 inches since last Friday)
0.47 Fayette
1.10 Vernon (between 3:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m. today)
0.87 SW Huntsville
0.25 Anniston Airport
0.14 Birmingham Airport
0.18 Shelby County Airport
1.19 Decatur
0.78 Huntsville Airport
0.26 Montgomery Dannelly Field
1.50 Muscle Shoals Airport
1.31 Pinson
1.42 Bankhead National Forest
0.24 Albertville
0.70 Crossville
1.29 Smith Dam
0.44 Demopolis Lock and Dam
0.81 DeSoto State Park
0.83 Meridianville
0.27 Cullman Airport (Vinemont)
0.71 Cottondale (rain on 7 of the first 10 days in July)
0.79 Weaver
0.43 Gardendale
0.63 South Trussville (Bill Murray)
1.05 NE Trussville
0.87 Black Creek (NE Etowah County)
0.71 Muscadine
0.89 Forney (Cherokee County)
1.70 Brilliant (5.25 inches since Friday)
0.53 Springville (Simmons Mountain, all since 4:15 this morning)
THE MUSCLE SHOALS SITUATION
The 1.50 inches of rain at Muscle Shoals Airport in the last 24 hours, brings their July total to 6.11 inches. They have now received 8 inches since June 1.
AN UNBELIEVABLE WILDFIRE
It is still underway in Central Utah and only 10% contained. This huge fire has now burned 514 square miles–by far the largest Utah wildfire in history.
