FILE - In this March 8, 2011 file photo, revelers throw beads from the balcony of the Royal Sonesta Hotel onto crowds on Bourbon Street during Mardi Gras Day festivities in the French Quarter in New Orleans. Mardi Gras is Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013, but more than a dozen parades roll in the days leading up to Fat Tuesday. The Krewe of Endymion's “super float” rolls Saturday night in New Orleans led by pop star Kelly Clarkson. Sunday's Bacchus parade will include more than two dozen child cancer patients from hospitals across the country who will ride with Bacchus celebrity king, actor G.W. Bailey. On Monday, actor Gary Sinise and New Orleans musicians Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews and Harry Connick Jr. will ride in the Krewe of Orpheus parade. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, file)
Parades began in the morning and are scheduled to go into the night in Mobile and Baldwin counties for Fat Tuesday.
Rain is in the forecast, but organizers say the celebration will continue unless the weather turns severe.
Six parades are scheduled in Mobile, home of the nation's oldest Mardi Gras festivities. The beach cities of Gulf Shores and Orange Beach also have parades.
Fat Tuesday marks the end of the Mardi Gras season and the beginning of the Christian season of Lent, which leads to Easter.
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