Today has been yet another wet day across our part of the Tennessee Valley, with a large part of southern middle Tennessee and northwest Alabama seeing an estimated 1 to 2″ soaking just in the morning and midday hours, although some parts of southern Lawrence County TN are estimated by radar to have gotten as much as 3 inches of rain. This led to several reports of flash flooding in portions of Lawrence County TN into Lauderdale County AL, but that is now beginning to back off some since rain has lightened up over these areas.
Pretty much everyone in our viewing area has gotten a decent soaking over the past week. The entire area is estimated to have seen a minimum of a 2 to 3 inch soaking in off and on periods since this past weekend, and there are many areas in especially north Alabama that are estimated to have seen 5 to 6 inches or more of rain during this period. Rain chances aren’t completely going away over the next seven days at any point, but activity does become much more spotty and isolated through the weekend into early next week, before another frontal boundary gradually sinks in here toward next Wednesday and Thursday with elevated rain chances again.
This continues the trend so far this spring of above average rainfall, with everyone in our region running above normal in that department for the past 30 days. The good news is all this rainfall the past few weeks has led to a complete removal of those lingering drought conditions we had earlier in the year, and there are no signs of the drought trying to return at any point in the foreseeable future!
