Weather Could Be Considerably Cooler by This Time Next Week
A lack of posts over the last ten days or so could be attributed to the lack of excitement on the weather scene — Tropical Storm Irene continues to dawdle in the North Atlantic without really threatening anyone; the tenth tropical depression of the season made its appearance, and then went away; and Atlanta continues its typical summer pattern of hazy, hot and humid weather, with a reasonable possibility of thunderstorms on any given day.
The rainfall stats are interesting. As of today, Atlanta has a full ten inches more rain than here in Lawrenceville — 42.97 inches to 32.697 inches. Athens has recorded almost 47 inches of rain for the year. Gainesville has reported 39 inches. Normal for the year to date is about 33 inches. I believe the big differences in rainfall amounts can be attributed to the widely varying effects of the hurricanes we’ve seen, and to the effect of popup thundershowers. I hope it’s not because my rain gauge is recording incorrectly. Unfortunately, neither the Lawrenceville airport nor the Winder airport report precipitation amounts, so it’s hard to tell.
The headline of this entry teases that we could have cooler weather next week. In fact, one of the major computer models, the GFS, is predicting that a cold front comparable to what we would see in the fall will come through sometime on Monday or Tuesday. If the GFS is right, we could see both daytime and evening temperatures about ten degrees lower than normal by next Wednesday or Thursday.
Even though the GFS is the Weather Service’s premier product, the folks down at Peachtree City that create the official forecasts for our area aren’t believing it, and are keeping the temperatures closers to the normal highs in the upper 80s and lows in the lower 70s for next week.
On the other hand, it seems like every year, in mid-August, ther is a burst of cold air that reminds you of September, and that fall weather is near. It certainly wouldn’t bother me if that’s what we saw next week.
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