September Rain Speculation – Bronze It Is!

Brian Peters | September 27, 2009 @ 9:26 am | 2 Replies

September, 2009, is going in the record books as the third wettest September since 1900 – bronze! Nearly an inch of rain fell at the official recording site in Birmingham yesterday (0.91″) placing the monthly rainfall total at 10.69 inches (see table below).

But we also got a Gold since this September is the wettest without a tropical system to produce the rain.

Another interesting note is that September, 2009, also goes in the records for consecutive days with rain. We’ve had 8 back-to-back days with rain which ties many other years for 6th place.

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Place	Year	Rain	Storm Name
1	1906	13.19″	Hurricane #5 & #6
2	2004	10.96″	Ivan
3	2009	10.69″	–
1977	10.43″	Babe
5	1979	10.40″	Frederick
2002	9.94″	–
7	1951	9.74″	–
8	1957	9.59″	–
9	1988	8.57″	Florence
10	1972	8.09″	–

Some other monthly rainfall totals around Central Alabama include:
Tuscaloosa at 9.17″
Montgomery at 6.65″
Anniston at 4.29″
Helena at 10.37″

So with dry, cooler weather forecast through the end of the month, I think it is safe to put away any ark plans you were working on!!

-Brian-

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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.