Winter May Not Be Over Yet
Today’s high temperature of 39 degrees is the coldest high daytime temperature we’ve seen since … last Sunday. However, prior to that, you would have to go back to January 17th, 2005 to see a day when the high temperature was lower. The two cold days mark bookends to a week that also saw the year’s highest temperature to date on Thursday, with a high of 72.8 degrees.
Today’s cold was amplified by the wedge effect, which trapped the morning’s cold temperatures under warmer air aloft. However, we were spared the worst of the weekend’s cold. When I got up this morning, it was 32 in Atlanta, and 21 in Chattanooga. However, 40 miles to the northwest, in Altamont Tennessee, the temperature was a frigid 9 degrees.
After another cold day on President’s day, expect things to warm up, although stay rainy through Thursday. Friday looks to be the nicest day of the week, and then a pattern change brings cold, dry weather in, quite possibly through the end of the month. Both the 6-10 day and 8-14 day forecasts call for colder and dryer than normal temperatures through the period which ends on March 5th. This is especially true for the end of the period, when highs could struggle to make 50 degrees, and overnight lows will be in the mid 20s.
The long-range forecast for March as a whole calls for a slight chance of above normal temperatures, and normal rainfall. It seems like groundhog Beauregard Lee needs to get busy if he wants to salvage his prediction of an early spring.
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