Published on: September 26, 2010 at 2:14 PM

Especially when it has been so dry. It was still raining over a good part of Alabama this afternoon. So far, this has been one of the best rain events in a long, long time, in some areas since late last May. Here is a roundup. Some of these totals are for the six hour period ending at 1 pm today. Other amounts are for the 24 hours ending at 7 this morning and still others for the 30 hours ending at 1 this afternoon.

0.59 Shelby County Airport
0.23 Greenville
0.76 Anniston Airport
0.95 Auburn
0.35 Tuscaloosa Airport
0.28 Gadsden Airport
0.92 Troy
1.63 Muscle Shoals
1.00 Oxford (most since late May)
0.34 Hueytown
0.48 Inverness
0.47 Huntsville
0.45 Decatur
1.21 Courtland
1.48 Russellville
1.38 Vlley Head
0.73 Jacksonville
0.97 Blur Pond (Cherokee County)
0.35 Cordova
0.73 Gaylesville
2.17 Jackson (Clarke County, SW Alabama)
0.78 Coden (South Mobile County)
0.87 Mobile Regional Airport
2.00+ Lookout Mountain near Collinsville

A huge extra bonus is the pleasantly cool temperatures!