Cold Weather Gives Way to Wet
Temperatures for the past three days have been 15 degrees cooler than normal, on average, bringing us temperatures below freezing, if only briefly, yesterday morning. Fir the month so far, the mean temperature here of 59.8 degrees is four degrees cooler than what would be expected in Atlanta (which has its heat island), and 1.5 degrees cooler than what would be expected in Athens.
The cool spell has ended, however, and is going to be replaced with rain through Saturday morning. The remnants of Hurricane Paul, which made landfall in Mexico yesterday, are moving east, and will bring us between two and four inches of rain over the next two days. The map to the right shows the expected rainfall amounts between now and 8 AM on Saturday.
We can use the rain, since we have had less than half of the precipitation that would be expected for October. It’s interesting to note that despite the perceived lack of tropical weather this season, both this storm and the rainmaker back on October 17th that provided the month’s only other significant precipitation are the result of tropical systems. Once the system clears out on Saturday, expect pleasant late October weather through the end of the week.
This weekend marks the annual change of the clocks back to standard time. The latest sunrise of the year is on Saturday, at 7:52 AM, later than the midwinter sunrise time of 7:42 in early January. This will change next year, however. Instead of moving to daylight time the first Sunday in April, we’ll spring forward on March 11th, the second Sunday in March, and the sun will rise at about the same time it is now. Also next year, we’ll wait until after Halloween to change the clocks back, making the switch on the first Sunday in November. That will push the sunrise to 7:58 AM.
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