The Wedge Is Back for This Week, but Look Out for Cold to Follow
If you are like me, you were probably looking forward to the predicted sunny skies this afternoon, which obviously didn’t happen. The moist air left over from Saturday’s rain remained in place as the slow moving cold front that brought the rain stalled across south Georgia. This kept the clouds in place and kept the temperatures cooler than expected.
If you were hoping for bright April skies this week, it looks like that won’t happen either, and there is a possibility of rain affecting the upcoming Masters Tournament in Augusta this weekend. For the first part of the week, we’ll see another wedge keep temperatures cooler than normal, with a good chance of fog and drizzle in northeast Georgia.
The wedge moves out on Wednesday, leaving us with a pleasant day for the first round of the Masters on Thursday, but setting us up for a chance of showers and thunderstorms through the weekend. Right now, it looks like the greatest chance of rain is in the western part of the state, but golfers could see rain on Friday and Saturday. The storm system moves out Saturday night, leaving better weather for Sunday.
The week of the 13th promises to be interesting, at least by the early forecasts. There’s a good possibility that cold Canadian air will make one last stand, with a chance of a very late freeze for the first part of the week. Both the 6-10 and 8-14 day outlooks are calling for colder than normal temperatures, and Accuweather is calling for lows in the mid 30s a week from Monday and Tuesday. If you were planning to get your annuals out this week, it might be a good idea to hold off until the forecast becomes clearer as the week wears on.
I had the opportunity to talk to Georgia Congressman John Linder last week, and I asked him to comment on global warming, and Washington’s efforts to address the problem. Linder, who has published several editorials on the issue, said that Global Warming was not settled science, and pointed out that the poles of Mars, Jupiter and Pluto are all thawing — surely not the result of human activity. He also pointed out that there was less Arctic ice in 1940 than now.
Linder says that the global warming issue is “all about taxes,” and he is worried about the current effort to make polar bears an endangered species, despite the fact that there were 5,000 of the bears back in 1950, and 25,000 now. He fears that the issue may ultimately go before the courts, and we will have judges deciding global warming policies that could affect businesses across the country.
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