ALABAMA — A soaking and cold steady rain was forecast to sweep across Alabama beginning Friday late afternoon and continuing through the overnight hours into Saturday morning, delivering meaningful and drought-relieving precipitation across the state with no severe weather threat accompanying the system and heaviest rainfall totals concentrated across the southern portions of the region.
Forecast radar valid at 5:00 AM Saturday showed intense and widespread precipitation coverage blanketing the full Alabama corridor with deep orange and red returns indicating heavy rainfall pushing through the state from northwest to southeast as the cold rain event progressed through the overnight hours.
Cold Steady Rain Arrives Late Afternoon and Overnight
The rainfall event was characterized as a cold and steady rain rather than a thunderstorm-driven severe weather system, keeping the threat level manageable for residents across Alabama through the Friday night timeframe. The bulk of the precipitation was expected to arrive during the late afternoon and overnight hours, with the most significant rainfall coverage pushing through the state well into the early Saturday morning period before gradual clearing developed.
The non-severe nature of the Friday night rain event distinguished it from the active severe weather that had impacted the region through the prior week, offering communities across Alabama a more manageable but still significant precipitation event heading into the weekend.
Heaviest Rainfall Totals Concentrated Across Southern Alabama
The southern portions of Alabama were forecast to receive the heaviest rainfall accumulations from the Friday night event, with forecast radar imagery showing the most intense precipitation cores tracking through the southern tier of the state as the system pushed southeast through the overnight hours…