Chance of Snow Flurries to Start the Week, Then Warmer
A trough in the Eastern part of the United States is going to bring us a real taste of winter weather in the first part of the week leading up to Thanksgiving. There is a reasonable chance of snow flurries overnight Sunday into Monday, but don’t panic — there’s no chance of accumulation. By Tuesday night, temperatures will drop to around 30, or even the upper 20s. You can expect gusty winds throughout the period, so all in all, it’s not going to be a great start to the week.
By Wednesday, the low pressure system will move away from us, allowing warmer temperatures back into North Georgia, with highs possibly brushing 70 degrees by the weekend. The long range prediction is for warmer than normal temperatures through the first of December.
November so far has proven to be colder and wetter than normal. Our rainfall of 3.61 inches measured here is about 170% of normal for the month to date, although if we don’t get more rain it will be about normal for the month. It has been cooler than normal — about two degrees below average so far. So, maybe warm weather for the Thanksgiving weekend will even things out a bit.
Kirk Melhuish of WSB radio has released his winter forecast. It largely follows the pattern of the other major forecasters, with a cooler than normal winter, and normal precipitation. Kirk does think that we’ll have a better chance than normal for an ice storm, though.
The National Weather Service also issued its final update to the winter forecast. While the predicted near normal temperatures and normal to slightly more than normal precipitation is unchanged for the Southeast, the meteorologists have changed their prediction for the Southwest from normal to equal chances of above or below normal temperatures.
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