Weather for North Georgia
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Good morning! Enjoying this fall weather? It's a little cold this morning across north Georgia, where we've seen lows in the upper 30's and low 40's across the area. My low today was 43 degrees, and that is my coldest low temperature since May 1, when I hit 42.8º. Yesterday was my coolest high temperature (59.2º) since April 27 when I reached 55.4º. Today should be colder, so we'll see how that goes. The same years keep showing up in all the discussions about the upcoming winter, and based on other data and information that is available, it appears to me that we are going to have a cold and stormy winter. We'll have plenty of cold air and a very active southern …
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Good morning! Has everyone enjoyed the rain? 🙂 I ended up with 0.64" of rain here at the house, so I did a little better than expected. these are very early precipitation reports, but it appears the NW corner of the state was on the sort end of the stick, but as you go further south and east, the totals increase. I've see a lot of 4"+ measurements over northern Florida, along with reports of tornadoes. We'll have one more shot of rain tomorrow morning, as moisture surges back into the area in advance of a cold front, and the front will kick off a few showers and thunderstorms out ahead. Once the front clears, we'll see those below normal temperatu…
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Good morning! I've been doing a little fixing up of the website here, and I've have a lot more to go. I'll be adding some new features, fixing some things that are a little wonky, and doing some general maintenance. I've also added some new Twitter feeds, since I lost all of the list I had when Twitter suspended my account. I'm trying to go back and remember all the accounts I followed and at least get some of them back. If you were hoping for a good dousing of rain, you'll have to keep hoping. The rain shield continues to shift to the south, and we are starting to look at meager amounts across north Georgia. The NWS Weather Prediction Center and NWS Atlanta a…
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Good morning! I hope everyone has been enjoying the awesome fall weather that we've been experiencing, we'll have a few more days of it, in a slightly modified form, before we get a brief but hopefully productive day or two of rain, before clearing once again. We do need the rain, and the drought continues to creep into the state. This is the latest drought map, and you can see that both the northwest and southwest corner of the state are getting pretty dry. Help is on the way though, especially for the southwest corner. These are rainfall totals through next Monday, but all the rain ends by early morning on Saturday. This is the official forec…
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Good evening! Another beautiful day today, and we'll have two more nice days before some clouds roll in, the winds shift to the NW and become gusty, and much drier and colder air rushes into the state, bringing our first REAL taste of fall with it. The Euro brings the leading edge of the cold front into the state around 2 PM Saturday morning, and by 8 AM (these images), the front will be well to our south. However, the GFS is running a little quicker and it brings the front through late Friday night. 8 AM Precipitable Water values from the Euro and GFS deterministic models The higher winds start to move in during the early morning hours…
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Good morning! I hope everyone is enjoying this nice stretch of weather that we're having! When I started this post this morning about 9 am, I grabbed the next two images that show the temperatures and temperature anomalies at 8:30 AM across the lower 48 states. The top right of the image gives a nice summary, and the below the image, the temperatures are further broken out into other categories. Those temperatures equate to these anomalies. We were running about 4.4º above normal. Here we go with a new month, so let's see how September turned out. Here at the house, September ended up pretty much like June as far as my…
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I found out this morning that meteorologist Chris Robbins passed away on August 30. I didn't know Chris well, but knew him well enough to ask him to help out here, especially during the winter months, and he agreed. We had initially talked a lot on Facebook, but we had a little issue one day and I decided to not go that route with him. Chris had had some ups and downs for the last 4-5 years, and I hope those issues weren't the cause of his death, but I fear it was. Chris was a very smart guy that had worked for the National Hurricane Center, NWS Atlanta, NWS Dallas/Ft Worth, and more, and he had more than 120,000 followers on Facebook. He helped author multipl…
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Here's a piece from Joe D'Aleo with WeatherBELL about the potential for the upcoming winter. 🙂 🍺❄️ ---------------------------------------------- The strength of the El Nino in the Pacific runs counter to the MEI/PDO. The east Pacific turned colder in 1998 following a super El Nino. The PDO has been mostly negative with La Nina's dominating (except 2015/16). When El Nino's try to happen they tend to develop or evolve into what is called a Modoki with the warm water more moderate and biased to the central tropical Pacific. They result as JB and I and others have noted is a very different winter for the US. The…
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Good morning! Man... this month has flown by! It's hard to believe that we're getting ready to start October! The nice weather we've been experiencing is going away for 3 days or so, but it will return beginning Friday. In the meantime, we'll have slight chances for showers along with mostly cloudy skies. We weak wedge forms on Wednesday, and that hangs around for a couple of days. Our temperatures will run slightly above normal today, below normal on Wednesday, and normal on Friday. There is still no major weather to talk about, as high pressure is going to take charge again once we get past Thursday. This is a very typical fall weather pattern for us, wi…
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Good morning! No weather to talk about for us at the moment, but we do have what will be Ophelia off the coast of Georgia and South Carolina, and that will be bringing some heavy rains to the east coast, but nothing for us here in Georgia except clear skies and light winds. Once Ophelia gets over land, the models start to become a little confused. "Which way will she go". She will most likely curve our to sea but she may stall for a short time, dumping heavy rains to the coastal Carolina's and the Mid-Atlantic states. Fortunately, or unfortunately, depending on how you look at it, we will stay dry until Tuesday, but from that point…
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Good morning! With all of this great weather, there hasn't been much to talk about, but things will start to change, and it looks like we're going to be entering a period with some very active weather. I hope everyone has enjoyed this great weather that we've had, with nice sunny skies, low humidity, and cool temps, and much of that will continue on through early next week. There is a stalled frontal boundary over the central Gulf that stretches northeast of central Florida, and that boundary will be the focus for the development of a surface low that will eventually make it's way up the east coast of Florida and Georgia, bringing some heavy rain to the coastal …
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Here we go, love it! For sure ready. For some old fashioned winter weather. I know you all are too! @NorthGeorgiaWX I know Steve is long over due!
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Good morning! It's time for another post!. The weather has been slow lately, with not much to talk about. Over the last 4-5 days, some people have gotten a lot of rain while others nothing, and it's been a very hit or miss pattern. The current map shows that most of the country is generally on the cool side, with most of the warm temperatures relegated to the southern border and the southeast. I've had people ask me about Hurricane Lee, and my answer has been "no worries for us". As you can see in this image, Lee will be heading north toward Maine. It will start to lose its punch as it gets over colder waters, and will drop to a tropical storm bef…
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Good evening! Yep, don't often do this at night, but the wife is off with some other women in the neighborhood yapping, so I can sit on the deck, watch a football game, and look at the weather. 🙂 It appears that we may be looking at a relatively cool month if the CPC and the models are correct. The first two images are the 6-10 day temp and precipitation probabilities. Climate Prediction Center WWW.CPC.NCEP.NOAA.GOV We cool down in a few days, and a large area of below normal temperature probabilities form over parts of the central and eastern US, while at the same time, the precipitation probabilities goes a little above…
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Good evening! How are you enjoying this first week of September and the first week of meteorological fall? I had a high of 77 for the first two days, and my lows were mid 60's. Combine that with some breezy winds and it certainly felt like fall across north Georgia. Our temperatures will be gradually warming up as we head through the week, but we'll have another cold front push through the area on Thursday, dropping the temperatures back down again. The ensembles are all showing a trough developing over the eastern part of the US, starting this upcoming weekend, and that trough gets reinforced on Monday or Tuesday next week, before a longer lasting trough takes …
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Good afternoon! People are starting to see maps of the tropics, so I wanted to alleviate any issues folks might have here. Right now the models are taking Invest 93L into the panhandle of Florida and curving it out toward the Atlantic, and the majority of the models model ensemble members, and the NHC are following this track. There are a couple of models that bring this system further north before curving, and if that scenario were to occur, it would bring more impacts to north Georgia. but as long the system follows the current tracks, it will most likely bring some much needed rainfall to north Georgia. I will say that WeatherBell believes that this may end up bei…
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Good morning! Another day or two of heat, and it will all become a memory! Unfortunately, today and Saturday may end up being the hottest days of the week. It's 6:17 AM right now, and my temperature at 2000 feet is 79 degrees, so it's been a warm night, but not my warmest night of the month, so it will be interesting to see how tonight goes. All of Georgia except the higher elevations of the north Georgia mountains is under a "Heat Advisory" for today and tomorrow, as the heat hangs on just a little bit longer. Watch as our temperatures tumble starting Monday, these are the forecast high temps through Thursday, and notice that the higher eleva…
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Good afternoon! Since we have nothing but dry, hot weather, let's talk about something else that is more interesting. The Atlantic has finally come alive, but most of the storms that are out there will have no impact to the lower 48 states. Obviously What was hurricane Hilary is now just rain across the western US. There has helped to reduce their temperatures quite a bit. You can see how tropical rains impact areas that are far away from any major body of water. This is through next Sunday. Meanwhile, high pressure over the central part of the country is bringing some serious heat to a large area of the country. These…
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Good afternoon! I can't believe it's already the last half of August, summer is flying by! So far, the temperatures across north Georgia haven't been too bad, but next week that will change as a strong area of high pressure over the central US takes hold and strengthens. The high is showing no signs of moving, so expect the weather to remain the same for the next 7-10 days. In addition to the temperatures running 7-11 degrees above normal, we won't be looking at any rain through next Saturday. August is normally our 2nd warmest month of the year, so hot temperatures are not unusual. This loop shows the 500 mb height anomalies. High pressure strengthens over the …
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Good afternoon! I was sitting here eating lunch and thought I'd take a look at the Euro Seasonal Model to get a feel as to how winter might turn out. This is the 500 mb pressure anomaly for the month of December. High to the north and lower pressure to the south. Noy too bad of a look 4 months out. Interesting. Deeper troughing is showing up over the southeast for January. That would imply colder and wetter. Even deeper trough in February. The Seasonal model suggest that our temperatures will average close to normal for the December/January/February timeframe. Surface pressure are pretty l…
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Good morning! Another round of storms last night brought more rain to north Georgia, but today should be much calmer with pretty low chances for rain, but with the heat and moisture that is still around, we can't rule out a few more thunderstorms before we start to dry out Tuesday. Speaking of heat, today will be the hottest day of the week and maybe the summer. Here's a map showing the Heat Advisories and Excessive Heat Warning locations. Only the higher elevations are spared. Here's a look at the high temperatures for today. If any high temp records were in jeopardy you would see a square box around one of those temperatures, but that won't be t…
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Good morning! Hot is the key word for the next 3 days. The heat ridge over the western US will be flexing its muscle, and that will bring the heat to the southeast, so let's take a look and see how hot it might get. The morning map shows a wave moving across Illinois and Missouri this morning, and that will eventually make it's way here later today, but the models still have some disagreement on when and if that will happen. Here we see Heat Advisory and Excessive Heat Watch for Georgia, while over in southern Alabama an Excessive Heat Warning is in effect. The Special Weather Statement is for fog. The next 6 images are from…
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Good morning! We should have a beautiful day in store for today, but that will come to an end later this evening as our next weather maker approaches the state. We have a stationary front over the central part of the state this morning, and later this afternoon that front will begin a push back to the north, bringing moisture back with it. During the overnight hours, the thunderstorm complex that is currently over Missouri and northern Arkansas will move into the northeast corner of the state, and bring a high chance for showers and thunderstorms. The rain associated with this cluster will hand around most of the day tomorrow and possibly into Friday morning be…
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Good morning! I have to say that the concern for severe weather has increased for this afternoon and especially for tomorrow, so please pay special attention to the weather later today and tomorrow. The severe threat for today is not as great as tomorrow, so the main focus here will be tomorrow, but I will say that the NAM is bringing the storms in around 8-11 pm tonight instead of tomorrow, so tonight might be an issue. You can see the morning wave, and the larger one that follows. The following wave is the one we'll need to watch, and that should be for later this evening. We do have some showers and thunderstorms moving into the state as I typ…
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Good morning! What a great day up here in the mountains! Temperatures are currently in the 70's here in Big Canoe and most of north and east Georgia, but as you move further west, the sun takes over and temperatures are in the 80's. But all good things must come to an end, and it's now time for us to get some rain. Today we start to transition from the nice comfortable humidity's and pleasant temperatures, to the familiar "northwest flow" pattern that brought us all of the rain and severe weather a few weeks ago. Thursday is looking to be a day with a pretty good chance for thunderstorms. There will be several waves of vorticity rotating through the flow around …
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