UPDATED 10 PM FOR MORE RAIN REPORTS
The main part of the storm now over NE Shelby County NEAT Sterrett and Vincent with Fire On The Mountain type fireworks.
The vivid lightning is visible down in Childersburg–in fact for many miles in all directions.
Sitting here in my office in NE Trussville with a big picture window facing the east and SE, it really does look like the 4th of July. I am overly afraid of lightning.
The storm will continue toward the ESE affecting part of Talladega County. The Logan Martin area should get a lot of rain. The storm was slowly going downhill.
Brian, in Chelsea in the comment section of the blog estimates over one inch of rain.
Jason Reed, one of the 33/40 Skywatchers in the Trussville got 1.62 today and this evening bringing the five day total to an impressive 5.52 inches Other amounts:
1.47 inches at Birmingham Airport in less than an hour tonight
1.97 in Jasper
1.32 SE Trussville, on the ridge
1.04 NE Trussville (we only got an additional 0.02 with tonight’s storm)
1.01 Clay (Wally Coker advises that is the first rain so far in July)
1.08 Noccalula Falls
0.16 Coker
0.12 Inverness
0.06 Coldwater
0.02 Weaver
1.47 Roebuck
1.20 Clay/Pinson (Womack Road)
2.40 Gardendale/Fieldstown Road (steady rain 3+ hours reports Dick Bell)
0.00 Alabaster/Navajo Pines (Michael Mills is begging for rain)
We will probably have to go through with this again tomorrow and tomorrow night.
