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February Rains Improve Drought Conditions

| March 2, 2013 @ 2:15 pm

The last month of meteorological winter saw a wide range of rain fall totals across the state of Alabama. Depending where you were in the state, you would have seen anywhere from a couple of inches of rain to nearly two feet. The southern counties in the state were the big winners as several frontal boundaries stalled across the region, providing copious amounts of rain fall. Much of the rain fell in the last week of the month. Here is a map of the rainfall totals across the state for the month of February.

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Last week I discussed how the drought conditions were improving across the state, and I was anxious to see how the week’s rain fall would be affecting the drought conditions. This image is for the drought conditions before the last main frontal system stalled across the region. Still many portions of the south and southeastern Alabama were still having drought impacts.

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With the latest drought monitor, big changes have occurred. The heavy rains from the last system have drastically improved these conditions. A look at the latest drought conditions shows just over 11% of the state is abnormally dry or experiencing drought conditions. A big change from the week before and now only portions of Randolph, Chambers and Tallapoosa Counties still have drought conditions. Conditions should continue to get better as several additional storm systems are in the forecast, and hopefully these dry areas can get caught up on rainfall and no drought conditions will persist.

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Macon, Georgia Television Chief Meteorologist, Birmingham native, and long time Contributor on AlabamaWX. Stormchaser. I did not choose Weather, it chose Me. College Football Fanatic. @Ryan_Stinnet

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