Posted on 02/10/2011 12:47:53 PM PST by BenLurkin
Georgia’s temperature was significantly below normal last month. In Atlanta, the monthly average temperature was 40.2 degrees F (2.5 degrees below normal), in Athens 39.7 degrees (2.5 degrees below normal), Columbus 43.6 degrees (3.2 degrees below normal), Macon 42 degrees (3.5 degrees below normal), Savannah 45.1 degrees (4.1 degrees below normal), Brunswick 49.1 degrees (2.6 degrees below normal), Alma 44.9 degrees (6.8 degrees below normal), Valdosta 47.3 degrees (2.6 degrees below normal) and Augusta 41.7 degrees (3.1 degrees below normal).
If colder-than-normal temperatures continue into February, this winter could possibly set records for the coldest winter ever in some parts of Georgia. Record low temperatures were set at Macon, Savannah and Alma Jan. 14. Macon reported 16 degrees, breaking the old record of 19 degrees set that date in 1970. Savannah and Alma reported 18 degrees, surpassing the old records of 20 degrees set at both locations in 1964.
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We topped out at around 14 degrees today but a heat wave is coming with temperatures tomorrow expected to reach into the low 20s.
If we get much more of this global warming, we’re going to freeze to death.
The same article says that GA is still in a drought. I call BS on that. We live in the ‘drought-stricken’ area and our yard is squishy. I dug down into the dirt as part of a fence repair and the soil is moist as far as I dug - about 20”
These guys need to not look at rainfall totals alone but also think about how the rain fell/ how the snow melted etc. Generally GA gets DOWNPOURS and most of the rain runs off the watershed. This winter the snows melted REALLY slow and soaked the earth. AND we’ve had several gentle rains of long duration - over two or three days. Plus we haven’t had a lot of cold, sunny, windy and dry days that would lead to a lot of evaporation.
We have to make a crisis whether there is one or not I guess.
As is often the case, as soon as these articles come out the pattern changes. In this case most of the eastern U.S. is about to get a break for at least a week with temperatures above normal. The core of the cold air will retreat from Canada back into Siberia.
I concur. If we are having a “drought”, it’s probably due to poor operation of Buford Dam and mismanagement of Lake Lanier water levels by the Corp of Engineers, as we experienced in the latter years of the recent real drought, which ended in late 2009.
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