You weren’t wrong, it WAS a wet winter.

At least if you were in north or central Alabama.

And NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information has made it official, declaring that the state as a whole had its wettest winter on record.

The NCEI is looking at precipitation data for the months of December, January and February, which makes up meteorological winter (meteorological spring began March 1 and lasts until May 30).

The state as a whole had an average of 24.22 inches of rain in February, which is 8.70 inches above average.

Data go back to 1895, according to the NCEI.

Not all of Alabama was that soggy over the winter months, but several counties in north and central Alabama had their wettest winters and helped propel the state to its record-setting status.

Below is the county-by-county look at precipitation over the winter. Part of southwest Alabama had near-average rainfall, but the rest of the state had above-average amounts. The counties in dark green had their wettest winters on record:

The Alabama counties in dark green had their wettest winters on record, according to NOAA.

An especially wet February helped things along as well. According to the NCEI the month of February was the third-wettest on record statewide and the wettest since 1961.

The period from January to February was the second-wettest on record for the state as a whole and the soggiest since 1936.

January by itself was the 15th wettest on record and December was the 30th wettest.

Several Alabama cities also had record-worthy winters in terms of precipitation.

* Tuscaloosa had its wettest winter on record with 27.54 inches of rain. The old record was 26.51 inches during the winter of 1982-83.

* Anniston had its second-wettest winter with 25.73 inches of rain (record was 25.89 in 1961-62).

* Birmingham had its second-wettest winter with 26.17 inches of rain (record was 27.01 in 1961-62).

More rain is in the forecast for this week, but it’s not expected to be a prolonged heavy-rain event, according to the National Weather Service.

Here’s a look at the precipitation forecast for the next seven days from the Weather Prediction Center:

North and central Alabama could see the most rain over the next week. This is the seven-day precipitation forecast.

This week’s rain is forecast to fall mostly on north and north-central Alabama, with south Alabama staying a bit drier.