Some Rainfall Numbers So Far

Brian Peters | May 3, 2012 @ 10:16 am

As I noted yesterday, Central Alabama has become drier as the year wears on after a somewhat wettish start in January. So the broad area of rain and showers coming as a result of a weak upper disturbance and an abundance of tropical moisture is a very welcome sight for most. Here’s a quick rundown on some rainfall observations through the morning hours.

Most of the rain going on around 10 am was in a band that stretched from Nashville through Huntsville, Birmingham, and Montgomery to the vicinity of Pensacola and Fort Walton on the Gulf Coast.

BMX radar image May 3, 2012, at 9:53 am CDT

Some observed rainfall from this morning through about 9 am. These represent storm totals so far since rain began yesterday.

Station	Rainfall
Helena	0.44″
Birmingham	0.49″
Calera	0.31″
Cullman	0.45″
Decatur	0.55″
Gadsden	0.03″
Meridian, MS	0.38″
Montgomery	0.25″
Mobile	6.85″
Tuscaloosa	0.22″
Haleyville	0.91″
Albertville	0.16″
Trussville (Skycam)	0.59″
Birmingham (Skycam)	0.36″
Trussville (Skycam)	0.59″
Tuscaloosa (Skycam)	0.30″
Jasper (Skycam)	0.42″
Fayette (Skycam)	0.42″

Current radar trends suggest that the bulk of the rain has cleared the Alabama counties along the Mississippi-Alabama line. Individual showers and patches of rain were moving northward with a slow drift to the whole rain area slightly eastward. No rain yet in places like Auburn, Anniston, Dothan, and Mt. Cheaha.

-Brian-

Category: Alabama's Weather

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Brian Peters is one of the television meteorologists at ABC3340 in Birmingham and a retired NWS Warning Coordination Meteorologist. He handles the weekend Weather Xtreme Videos and forecast discussion and is the Webmaster for the popular WeatherBrains podcast.