Emily Not Expected to Threaten Atlanta
If you’ve been following the progress of Hurricane Emily, the headline above won’t be a surprise to you. Emily has been following a more southerly path than Cindy and Dennis, and should continue to move west-northwest after is passes over Jamaica and extreme western Cuba over the weekend. The storm will travel over Yucatan, Mexico, and then proceed to somewhere near the Texas - Mexico border late Tuesday evening.
The picture above is Emily as of about 9 AM on Friday morning. Click the picture for an enlarged image, courtesy of NOAA. Emily is sporting winds of about 105 MPH, making her a category 2 hurricane, and is moving west at about 20 MPH.
As far as our weather goes, the good news is that a high pressure system building off the Atlantic coast is going to dry out the area, reducing the chance of afternoon thundershowers — but only slightly. This should also mean that we see more clear skies, and warmer temperatures. Over the longer term, the Weather Service is forecasting warmer than normal temperatures and above normal precipitation for the last ten days in July.
Our mean temperature halfway through July is 75.8 — two degrees below normal Meanwhile, rainfall in Lawrenceville stands at 7.28 inches, 142% of the 5.12 inches we would expect for the month. And, that’s nothing compared to Atlanta’s 13.12 inches, a whopping 568% of the normal 2.31 inches that we would expect by July 15th.
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