April Was Warm and Dry - More of the Same In May?
The weather service predicted that April was going to be warmer and dryer than normal here in Georgia, and the statistics say that they got the forecast right.
Here in Lawrenceville, the mean temperature was 65.4 degrees for the month, which is 4.5 degrees warmer normal than average for Athens, or 3.8 degrees above the norm for Atlanta. With only 2.26 inches of rain, compared to a normal of 3.62 inches, we only got two thirds of a normal April rainfall.
April continued a pattern we’ve had since last fall, with abrupt swings in temperatures from cooler than normal to warmer than normal. It looks like we’ll see some of this in May as well. We’ll see another week with highs in the mid 70s, then beginning around the 10th of the month, it gets warm, with summerlike high temperatures as high as the mid 80s.
Overall for May, the Weather Service predicts, we are likely to see equal chances of above or below normal temperatures and precipitation.
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