Since we are having a bona fide drought and since every drop of rain is treated as if it is a gold nugget, we want to post some rain amounts for the last 24 hours. Most of these amounts are from Sunday afternoon, including a very impressive 0.72 at Anniston Airport and 1.02 in Cottondale.
0.88 in Ashville
0.28 Childersburg
0.16 Ft. Payne Airport
0.28 Gaylesville
0.13 Haleyville
0.65 Cullman Airport*
0.14 Albertville
1.02 Cottondale
0.05 Concord
0.09 Black Creek
0.08 Jasper
0.01 Muscadine
0.15 Inverness
0.03 McCalla (Million Dollar Lakes)
0.39 Morris (North Jefferson County)
0.30 Demopolis
0.17 Neely Henry Dam (Ohatchee Area)
0.10 Birmingham Airport
0.30 Concord/Hueytown line
0.04 Meadowbrook and NE Trussville
0.72 Anniston Airport
0.58 Nearby Oxford
* The 0.65 at Cullman Airport is actually at Vinemont where the airport is located. Mike Wilhelm, the 33/40 skywatcher, lives in Vinemont and he reported that a strong thunderstorm moved through the area.
An area of nice showers moved through part of NE Alabama this morning and, at 8 a.m., they were still in progress across Jackson and DeKalb Counties in the extreme NE part of the state–places like Ft. Payne and Scottsboro. Other scattered showers were developing further south in Etowah, Blount, St. Clair and Calhoun Counties.
THE HAVES AND THE HAVE NOTS
During the next five days, as much as 4 inches of rain is projected over NE Texas, the SE half of Oklahoma and NW Arkansas. All of this area is far above normal on 2007 rain amounts.
A TOP OF THE LINE FOREST FIRE
If wildfires were given ratings like tornadoes and droughts, this would definitely be a number five. Near Lake Tahoe, the fire is raging this morning and already 220 homes have been destroyed.
