Seems everyone is still shopping for rain. Some good amounts over the weekend, but the drought is still with us. We are chipping away at the deficit, but we have a long trip ahead to erase it. (See the end of this report.)
These amounts were recorded over the weekend–most were in the last 24 hours, but some go back as far as Saturday night.
0.46 Albertville
0.37 Bankhead National Forest
0.73 Ashland
0.70 Alexander City
0.67 Anniston (Alabama Power)
0.30 Blue Pond (Cherokee County)
1.15 Birmingham (Alabama Power)
0.70 Lay Dam
0.73 Weiss Dam (Centre)
1.23 Carbon Hill
0.87 Dearmandville
0.71 Ft. Payne
1.15 Jackson Shoals (Talladega County)
0.78 Jasper
0.90 Manchester (Walker County)
0.63 Pell City
0.73 Henry Dam
0.81 Sayre
0.58 Anniston Airport
0.78 Oxford
1.33 Downtown Birmingham (skycam)
0.64 Mt. Cheaha (skycam)
3.70 Hamilton (24-hour total from 33/40 skywatcher)
0.55 Mumford
0.51 Chelsea
0.15 Concord/Hueytown
1.17 Crumly Chapel
0.43 Helena (Brian Peters)
0.24 Morris (First rain in two weeks.)
4.70 Union Hill community (We got this report by e-mail from Ruby Huggins. It rained for hours in that community two miles south of Hackleburg from late Saturday night into Sunday Morning. This is in Northern Marion County in NW Alabama.)
RAIN DEFICIENCY
Now, here is the bad news. Here is a list of the rain deficit so far in 2007 as of this morning:
18.82 inches at Huntsville Airport
21.44 Anniston Airport
18.50 Birmingham Airport
22.62 Tuscaloosa Airport
Those stats hint strongly to me that we will still be showing a deficit at the end of the year.
