Rita Remnants Offer Best Chance of September Precipitation
With six days left in the month, it now looks like the remains of Rita might provide September’s only rainfall. Initial predictions had Rita stuck over the Arklatex area for several days, providing up to 20 inches of rain to the area. Now, the storm has been downgraded to a tropical depression as of this morning. The low that was Rita is predicted to move east across Tennessee on Monday, and may bring rain to North Georgia.
The weather service is predicting half an inch of rain on Monday, which would be the first rain that Gwinnett has seen since Katrina’s remnants came over the area on August 29th and 30th. Even if we get that rain, it will still put this month among the top ten driest Septembers ever. Once Rita passes through, there is only a small chance of some additional precipitation as another front passes through on Thursday.
This September has also been unusual in another way. Our mean temperature so far of 73.7 degrees is almost three degrees above the normal of 71. For the first time in three years, we’ve had 90 degree weather in Atlanta in September. Today’s normal high is 80 degrees, with a low of 61.
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