Heavy Rain and Wind...

The heavy rainfall has moved into the Shoals area, along with very strong gusty winds. The wind is from the E and ESE, and that's the only direction that trees obstruct my wind readings. The highest gust I've had so far is 19mph. The Times Daily weathernet station which is about 4 blocks north of me has had a max wind of ESE 26. The Florence Police Station also has a weather station that is online, and as I'm typing this the wind is SE 12 gusting to 30 there (this station is about 2 blocks east of my house). It's just a constant roar outside with the wind whipping through the trees. I've picked up 0.85" rain so far, with lots more to come. I just noticed the latest METAR from Muscle Shoals has a SE wind at 24 gusting to 32.

The huge blob of heavy rain that is still over central MS is headed our direction. I will post more later tonight as this nears the area.