Recent outbreaks of heavy rain, even flooding rain, have offset the drywinter weather over much of the Deep South. The latest such outbreak as ofearly Wednesday left widespread rainfall of 2-4 inches over southern Georgia,southeastern Alabama and northern Florida, especially the panhandle.Wednesday night through Thursday will bring yet more torrential downpoursrolling through the aforesaid areas. Rainfall locally reaching 3 to 4 incheswill trigger urban flooding as well as flooding of smaller streams.
As for bigger rivers, some were flooding as of Wednesday. Wherever new heavyrain overlaps with the previous soakings within a given river basin, this wouldlead to further rises, even major flooding.
Story by AccuWeather.com Senior Meteorologist Jim Andrews.