Published on: July 26, 2008 at 4:56 PM

1.06 inches of rain here in Trussville in a generally gentle rain this afternoon.

The rain area that delivered this nice rainfall total has nearly completely diminished at this hour. It covers parts of southern Jefferson County into southern St. Clair County, Talladega County and Shelby County.

A large area of moderate rain and some embedded thunders covers much of the southern third of Alabama. Some strong storms are over the Wiregrass area of Southeast Alabama.

The Columbus NEXRAD shows widely scattered strong storms over northern Mississippi. But those storms are moving generally south. There is a storm northwest of Lawrenceburg, Tennessee is moving SSE toward the Alabama border. It i smoving toward Lauderdale County in Alabama.

Storms should be less prevalent across Alabama on Sunday as some druer mid level air moves into the area. It will be quite hot tomorrow, with temperatures in the middle 90s.