The Rain Is Coming
Forecasters have been predicting a major rain event that could bring up to 3 inches of badly-needed rain to Atlanta. The Weather Service has issued a flood watch. Radar and satellite views over the last 24 hours show approaching rain, but it never seems to make it to Atlanta.
The storm’s slower than expected advance has been stalled by high pressure to our north. Heavy cool, dry air in north Georgia produced a wedge situation, forcing the lighter warm moist air upward, and wringing the moisture out. The wedge is part of the reason why Gwinnett didn’t record any rain yesterday, while down in Hampton, the Golden Corral 500 was rained out. They have rescheduled it for today, but I don’t think they will get it in.
The HPC is predicting that we could get up to two inches of rain from the storm, with most if it coming after sunset tonight. It should start to clear out by Tuesday midday, and high pressure will follow, bringing fair weather for the remainder of the week.
Today is the first day of spring, but the warm weather we saw last week may stay away through the end of the month. long-range forecasts say we should expect lower than normal temperatures and below normal precipitation through April 2nd. One forecast I saw predicted highs in the 50s to low 60s, and no high temperature above 70 degrees until the first of the month, when our normal daytime high should be in the upper 60s.
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