February Rain Totals

Brian Peters | February 28, 2013 @ 10:10 am

With a rain-free forecast for the last day of February, we can now tabulate the actual rainfall amounts for the month for Central Alabama. Indeed, February was a wet month as you can see from the table below. All stations came in with monthly totals above the 30-year averages. And Montgomery really blasted into the record books with the second wettest month on record, missing the top spot by only 2 hundredths of an inch.

Also interesting to note that there was a strong north to south gradient in rainfall values with Tennessee Valley stations reporting only 2.50 to 3.50 inches for February.

Actual Values

Station.......Rainfall....Standing
Birmingham.....6.21".......27th wettest
Tuscaloosa.....5.53".......17th wettest
Anniston.......5.97".......23th wettest
Montgomery....13.36".......2nd wettest

The overall weather pattern for the long term continues to look active. The latest GFS run suggests some sort of weather around March 2nd, 5th, 10th, and 16th with a nice train of strong upper lows moving briskly through the flow.

-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.