One More Week of Warm Weather - But the Real Cold May Be in February
I hope you’ve had a chance go go out and enjoy the warmer than normal temperatures we’ve had this week. We’ve seen temperatures about ten degrees above normal, and it looks like temperatures could get into the low 70s over the weekend.
Of course, it can’t go on forever. The pattern is likely to change a week from now, after a good chance of rainy weather midweek next week. After that, look for temperatures approaching normal to slightly below normal through the end of the year.
If you want to get a peek at what we could see for the rest of the winter, check out this graphic. It shows the expected deviations from normal for temperatures for the next six months, based on the CFS climate modeling system developed by the National Weather Service.
The models show a colder than normal December in Georgia–we are running about 3 degrees cooler than normal this month– followed by a normal to slightly cooler than normal January, a better chance for a cold February, a normal March, and a cold April. While these aren’t official forecasts, they do give some indications of what models say we’ll see this winter.
Even though the winter solstice is one week away, today was the first day since last July that the sun set later in the day than it did yesterday. Although we’ll see later sunrises for another three weeks, we’ll gain about ten minutes of evening light between now and the first of the year.
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