While recent rainfall amounts varied across Greene County, data from all available reporting stations this morning indicated they had received at least an inch of rainfall for the 24 hours that ended at 7 a.m today.

The University of Tennessee Research and Education Center, which is Greene County's official rainfall monitoring station, recorded 1.55 inches of rainfall for the 24 hours that ended at 7 a.m. today, according to a center spokesman.

The first substantial rainfall in weeks apparently resulted in numerous trees toppling onto county roads on Tuesday night.

Tuesday's steady rainfall also forced cancellation of the season finale for the Greeneville Astros, the first time this season the team had lost a game date due to rain.

And the rainfall was enough to stave off water restrictions.

Shortly before 7 a.m. today, Deputy Sheriff Chuck Humphreys, who had been dispatching at the Greene County Sheriff's Department since 7 p.m. Tuesday, said deputies and Highway Department workers were kept busy overnight dealing with downed trees.

"We had trees down all over the county," Humphreys said.

He noted that one tree that fell onto the 107 Cutoff in southern Greene County about 8 p.m. Tuesday was struck by two separate vehicles.

Other trees, he said, were reported down on Rollins Chapel Road off the Asheville Highway, on Old Stage Road and on Whirlwind Road.

Deputy Humphreys said the Greene County Highway Department and the Tennessee Department of Transportation were called to remove the fallen trees.

Amelia Rader, at the University of Tennessee Research and Education Center, wrote in an e-mail message this morning that the rainfall total for this week is now 2.56 inches.

However, the total for August, as of 7 a.m. today, is now 3.30 inches at the center, Rader said.

At the Greeneville-Greene County Municipal Airport, Steven Neesen, of Greeneville Aviation, said the airport recorded 1.45 inches of rainfall for the 24-hour period that ended at 7 a.m. today.

In addition, the Web site of an organization called the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail & Snow Network, whose volunteers maintain rainfall and snowfall monitoring stations across Greene County, reported rainfall totals for the 24 hours that ended at 7 a.m. today ranging from a high of 1.72 inches at a station in Mohawk to a low 1.31 inches at a station a mile northwest of Baileyton.

The group's Web site, which is linked to the National Weather Service Web site in Morristown, operates five Greene County rain and snow monitoring stations.

In addition to the Mohawk and Baileyton stations, the other Greene County stations reported (for the 24 hours that ended at 7 a.m. today) 1.66 inches of rain at a station 10.1 miles south of Greeneville; 1.41 inches at a station 6.4 miles south-southeast of Greeneville; and 1.47 inches at a station three miles south of Greeneville.

For the 24 hours that ended at 7 a.m. Tuesday, the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail & Snow Network, reported a high of an inch of rainfall at a station 10.1 miles south of Greeneville to a low of .32 inches a mile northwest of Baileyton.

The Web site of the National Weather Service office in Morristown indicates that the weather forecast for today said showers were likely along with a possible thunderstorms before 2 p.m. and a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2 p.m.

The forecast called for cloudy skies with a high near 78 degrees.

For tonight, according to the weather service forecast, there is a chance of showers and thunderstorms. Skies were predicted to be mostly cloudy, with a low around 64 degrees and a chance of precipitation of about 40 percent.