Thanksgiving Rain: A Start to a Wet Week
Depending on where you were, you may have been disappointed with the Thanksgiving Day rainfall totals. Here in Lawrenceville, I recorded .15 inches for the storm, which is less than many other areas did. Looking at the radar as the storm passed over the Atlanta metro area, most of the rainfall seemed to be to the north of Georgia 316, and that’s borne out by some of the precipitation reports:
Athens: 1.17 inches (they really needed it)
Gainesville: .46 inches
Johns Creek: .93 inches
Alpharetta: 1.09 inches
Rome: .87 inches
Atlanta: .16 inches
The good news is that we’re due for some more rain before the month ends, and then at the beginning of December. Cooler air is beginning to filter into the state from northwest to southeast, and Friday should be a sunny, if cool, day for shopping or golf. (Someone told me that the day after Thanksgiving is one of the biggest days for golf - the ladies go shopping and the men to golfing.)
By Saturday, a warm front begins to approach from the south, bringing a return of moisture to North Georgia, and an episode of cold air damming, or ‘the wedge’, where the warmer air sits on top of the colder air already present. This is likely to lead to showers Saturday night into Sunday, and then another front approaches from the northwest, bringing a chance of rain on Monday or Tuesday. At this point, it looks like the two systems could bring an inch and a half to two inches of rainfall by Tuesday evening, with the bulk of the rain on Monday night. You can see the predicted five day rainfall totals in the map on the right.
Things clear out with close to normal temperatures for midweek, and then yet another front approaches for the weekend, with a possibility of rain from Friday through Sunday.
All of this doesn’t mean that we’re out of the drought by a long shot. But, even if you didn’t get the rain today that you wanted, there’s more coming.
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