Record Cold for North Georgia
This morning’s low temperature of 37 degrees recorded here in Lawrenceville is close to a record. The record low for Atlanta for October 14th is 38 degrees, set back in 1979. Other area lows this morning include 34 degrees in Duluth at the Atlanta Athletic Club and in Alpharetta at the Golf Club of Georgia, and 42 degrees at Atlanta Hartsfield Airport. The map below shows the below 40 degree weather extended as far south as Macon.
Early reports also show temperatures dropped to freezing this morning in Dalton, Rome, and Peachtree City. Overall, temperatures this morning are between 15 and 20 degrees below the normal low of 55.
While this morning’s cold may have been a record for the day in some locations, it’s not the earliest frost. That would be on October 11th for Atlanta, or October 9th for Athens. Normally, the first frost in metro Atlanta is around November 10th. In 2005, the first frost was on November 17th, while in 2004, we stayed frost free until December 14th.
This morning may have been the coldest of the current cool weather, caused by a Canadian high pressure system that brought record lake-effect snow to the Buffalo, New York area, (2 feet, including 8.6 inches on Thursday — an October record) and snows across the Great Lakes area.
This high pressure system will move out of the area by Sunday evening, making way for something we haven’t seen much of this month, rain. Later in the week, temperatures could rise back into the mid 80s by Wednesday, and more seasonable temperatures through the end of the month.
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