Early Tonight in Alabama–7:30 Report

On lightning detection equipment, there is a string of lightning from the Houston area eastward hugging the Gylf Coast and finally all the way eastward to Savannah on the Georgia Coast.

The lightning was not very pronounced but inland over the Southeast USA this evening, there was almost no lightning.

Instead, showers were marching eastward across the map. The showers were fairly widespread from SE Texas across South Louisiana and Mississippi into Central and South Alabama.

These are not the big rain producers like we had today. Only a few showers were over Extreme North Alabama but there were scattered ones over the Central and South.

We are not through with the rain! More showers and some thunderstorms tomorrow, increasing in number Tuesday night. Storms also on Wednesday and especially Thursday. Central Alabama should get several more inches of rain before a strong cold front moves in this weekend.

AMAZING BIRMINGHAM RAIN STORY: 2.74 inches of rain since last night brought the October total to 5.10 inches and the 2009 total to 57.45 inches. This is an excess of 14.53 inches! Huntsville has a surplus of 8.54. Montgomery received only 0.13 today.

A ROUNDUP OF ALABAMA RAIN FROM THIS BIG STORM
2.84 at Fayette, Month 6.34, year 63.62
2.91 NE Trussville, Peppertree subdivision
2.44 Downtown Birmingham Skycam
1.99 Clay/Pinson (Womack Road)
1.85 Chelsea
1.91 Inverness
1.63 Coker
1.63 Centre
2.74 Birmingham Airport (record for Oct. 12)
2.33 Scrougeout*
2.52 Gardendale/Mt. Olive
2.42 Muscadine

* Today’s rain brought the 2009 total at Scrougeout to 65.58 and to 81.70 in the last 12 months since 10/16/08!

* Early today numerous roads were closed from flooding across Central and West Lamar County in West Alabama.

* Several roads were closed in the Gadsden area around 8 this morning due to high water.

* We will get several more inches of rain over the next three days, possibly 3 to 5 inches in some areas.

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