You will be bug-eyed if you read all these rain reports and your eyeballs may resemble a street map. Howsomever, to steal an expression from my friend, Snuffy Smith, people are extremely interested in rain reports now because of our Super drought.
These reports are from all available sources including NWS, Alabama Power, Skycams and the big network of ABC 33/40 Skywatchers. Some of the Skywatcher reports may be incomplete because some filed their report late last night before the rain had completely ended.
AMOUNTS ONE INCH OR MORE:
1.70 McCalla (1.5 miles north of McAdory High School)
1.04 Tuscaloosa Airport
1.10 Moody
1.50 Gorgas
1.51 Cuba (southwest of York and 2 miles from Mississippi border)
1.18 Northport
1.00 Riverchase (ABC 33/40 Studio)
ALL OTHERS:
0.94 Roebuck
0.45 Alpine
0.21 Alexander City
0.50 Anniston
0.25 Smith Dam
0.29 Ashville
0.82 Cook’s Springs (Bald Rock)
0.88 Birmingham (Alabama Power)
0.21 Blountsville
0.18 Blount Springs
0.23 Bankhead National Forest
0.13 Logan Martin Dam
0.36 Childersburg
0.25 Clanton
0.21 Lay Dam
0.18 Collinsville
0.33 Cordova
0.30 Centre (Weiss Dam)
0.58 Carbon Hill
0.56 Dearmanville
0.36 Aliceville
0.25 Ft. Payne
0.25 Gadsden Steam Plant
0.13 Horseshoe Bend
0.30 Haleyville
0.40 Jackson Shoals (Talladega County)
0.39 Jasper
0.34 Mt. Cheaha
0.77 Oak Grove (West Jefferson County)
0.17 Oneonta
0.56 Pell City
0.17 Ohatchee (Henry Dam)
0.18 Roanoke
0.07 Holt
0.42 Martin Dam
0.31 Trafford
0.43 Vincent
0.14 Wadley
0.29 Wilsonville
0.06 Decatur
0.50 Anniston Airport
0.07 Auburn
0.87 Birmingham Airport
0.50 Shelby County Airport (where the BHM/NWS hangs out)
0.02 Evergreen
0.16 Huntsville
0.21 Montgomery Dannelly Field
0.41 Muscle Shoals
0.10 Troy
0.65 Pinson
0.39 Selma
0.16 Albertville
0.27 Bankhead National Forest
0.31 Crossville
0.35 DeSoto State Park
0.11 Ft. Payne Airport
0.39 Meridianville
0.18 Cullman Airport
0.55 Clay
0.60 Clay/Pinson (Womack Road)
0.42 Oxford
0.08 Sylacauga
0.24 Vinemont
0.49 Ashby (south of Montevallo, population 100)
0.48 Lincoln
0.55 South Trussville (Bill Murray)
0.74 NE Trussville (Little Miss Molly’s hangout)
0.98 Birmingham (downtown Skycam)
0.56 Tuscaloosa (downtown Skycam)
0.43 Helena (Old Cahaba)
0.11 Ashland
0.25 Alexander City
0.31 Clanton
0.38 Hamilton
0.50 Jasper
0.25 Livingston
0.39 Selma
0.50 Talladega
0.95 Helena (Brian Peters)
0.35 Calera
0.51 Palmerdale
0.75 Plantersville
0.19 Wadley
0.14 Hayden
0.68 Springville/Simmons Mtn.
0.63 Gardendale
0.73 Concord/Hueytown
0.49 Inverness
0.67 Argo
0.75 SE Trussville
0.34 Cottondale
0.20 Haleyville
0.31 Moundville
0.75 South Hueytown
0.42 Brookwood
0.36 Kimberly
0.92 Fayette
0.30 Taylorville
0.76 Alabaster/Navajo Pines
0.40 Columbiana
0.45 Vigo (East of Piedmont)
THIRSTY ATLANTA
We are pulling for our neighbors to the east to get some rain because they are suffering from this historic drought just like we are. Like east Alabama, the Georgia amounts lessoned a great deal because the line of showers and thunderstorms got tired and wanted to go to bed. Here are some reports:
0.26 Marietta
0.23 NE Atlanta
0.05 Peachtree City (the Atlanta NWS Office hangs out there)
0.18 West Atlanta
0.29 Cartersville
PLACES THAT FARED BETTER THAN WE DID
1.52 Cleveland
1.39 Dayton
1.41 Indianapolis (They also received heavy rain the previous day.)
1.51 Paducah
2.61 Evansville, Indiana
USA EXTREMES IN TEMPERATURE
88 yesterday Brownsville, Texas
8 below this morning Alamosa, Colorado
45 below Nuiqsut, Alaska
GOOD OLD DEADHORSE
We actually got an e-mail this morning asking for more mention of Deadhorse on the north coast of Alaska. It was 40 below zero there this morning with a wind chill of 57 below. That is quite a place. One day, a number of years ago, guests at the local hotel were startled when a polar bear came up to the second floor and was wandering down the hall.
