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7/23/2008 8:40:51 AM
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Alabama rainfall ahead of last year, but still below normal
Wednesday, July 23, 2008DAVID WHITENews staff writer
MONTGOMERY - Rainfall totals in much of Alabama so far this year have been higher than they were this time last year, but still have fallen below normal amounts, officials said Tuesday.
Rainfall totals this year through Monday, compared to normal rainfall for the period, were down 3.2 inches in Mobile, 5.67 inches in Montgomery, 5.8 inches in Anniston, 8.88 inches in Tuscaloosa, 10.81 inches in Muscle Shoals and 11.67 inches in Huntsville.
A big exception to the rule has been Birmingham. The city this year had gotten 33.04 inches of rain through Monday, or 0.48 inches more than the normal amount for the period, according to the weather service.
An average of 6.9 inches below the normal rainfall of 34.7 inches as measured by 17 gauges in the Black Warrior River basin in north and west Alabama. For the same period last year, average rainfall was 16.7 inches below normal.
Alan Peeples, supervisor of reservoir management for Alabama Power, said the dry ground is soaking up so much of any rain that falls that there has been relatively little runoff, especially since mid-June, to boost the flow of streams that feed the utility's reservoirs.
"It's dry," Peeples said. "When it rains, we're seeing inflows drop off rapidly because the ground is just absorbing everything."
I'm suprised that a rep. of Alabama Power would make a comment like this. Does this mean that the same ground in April that the rain fell on is different than the ground in July. Yet, lake levels at the start of the smmmer rose to 510+ feet and now in July it is less than 504 feet.
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