Soaking Wet

Have you had enough yet? Rain is still coming down across much of the state this morning, but the heaviest rain showing up on radar is now drifting north across Greene, Hale, Bibb, Chilton, Shelby, and Tallapoosa Counties. Rainfall rates of around 1/2 inch per hour have been estimated by radar in those areas since 10 AM.

The slow, steady rain will continue at times this afternoon. An upper air low just southeast of the Louisiana Gulf Coast will continue to send waves of energy north into a very moist air mass. The precipitable water measurement from this morning's Shelby County Airport upper air sounding is 1.74" That means if you squeezed out all of the water in the atmosphere from the ground up to about 45,000 feet it would accumulate to 1.74" on the ground. That won't happen, but it does tell us that there is a good supply of moisture for these little waves coming from the main low to work with. The bite of good news here is that the atmosphere is not particularly unstable today, so thunderstorms will not be a big worry! Look for mainly rain for most of the day!

The wet weather is going to be with us for two more days, but by Friday and Saturday we should start drying out some!