If you are waking up on this Saturday morning in Shelby County, you are probably waking up to some rain. However, the rain area is rapidly diminishing. One or two showers were still indicated on radar in Autauga, Talladega, Coosa, St. Clair, and Cherokee counties, but most of these showers were quite small.
The Shelby County airport observation even noted thunder there, though I can’t say that I heard any at my home in Helena.
But I did get 78 hundredths of an inch of rain. I noted on the Weather Xtreme Video (see below) that some spots could see a tenth of an inch, so I missed that mark by a huge amount. But this is often the case in somewhat tropical showers which can dump a good deal of rain from what appear to be small showers.
The showers had formed along a convergence zone between the remnants of Gustav and Hanna in North Carolina. I expect any showers today to be confined to the area along and east of this weak boundary. Surface maps show the dew points across North Mississippi and Northwest Alabama to be in the lower and mid 60s while values are running in the lower 70s along this boundary. The convergence has been enough to squeeze out a few showers and a nice morning rain.
-Brian-
