A Late Afternoon Wet Look--4:20 Report

A broad band of rain persists across North-Central Alabama this afternoon including some imbedded showers and even an occasional rumble of thunder.

The precipitation has been training all day, generally across the same area. Some of the heavier showers were over Jefferson, Southern St. Clair and Calhoun Counties.

Back to the west, a long zone of showers extends across North-Central Mississippi into North Louisiana.

A stalled front lying across North-Central Alabama is the reason the showers have revisited the same area time and time again. Ironically, it has rained very little a little further south in places like Greensboro, Marion, Centreville, Clanton, Rockford, Alexander City and Roanoke.

Showers have been heavy at times. Shortly afternoon it was raining hard enough at Hueytown in West Jefferson County for motorists to pull over.

Still a big contrast in temperature across that front. It was 59 degrees in Birmingham at 4:00 p.m. and 52 in Huntsville, but it was 75 in Montgomery and 79 in Evergreen.

A FEW RAINFALL REPORTS THROUGH 4:00 PM CST:
0.97 at the ABC 33/40 studios in Riverchase
0.94 at Birmingham Airport
0.63 at Tuscaloosa Airport
1.47 in NE Trussville
Posted by   www
on February 22, 2006, 5:06 pm
Wet indeed!

1.54" since midnight here in Cahaba Heights.

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Posted by   www
on February 22, 2006, 5:13 pm
Raining to hard in Homewood to Southside that water is running off everywhere and wipers can't keep up.

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Posted by John T.  
on February 22, 2006, 5:20 pm
Hey J.B. . Missed ya yesterday . So far at my house on the Hueytown/Concord line have had 1.32 in the bucket . 56* .

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Posted by  
on February 22, 2006, 5:27 pm
I saw most forecasters calling for about 1/2 inch....a little more than that was hitting my umbrella today :)

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