AREA Weather

Despite the dramatic improvement in the drought we have seen in the last few months, we have been on quite the dry stretch since the beginning of September across the region. Outside of Hurricane Isaias significant rainfall has been hard to come by. In fact, Isaias was the last time the vast majority of us saw rainfall on October 10/11. Recent Dryness This recent dryness is in stark contrast to earlier in the summer when we were quite wet. This shows up nicely in the percentage of normal. Below you can see the percentage of normal for both the last 60 (left) and 90 (right) days. No doubt there's a lot more grey/green, or 75% plus, on the graph on the right. This has resulted in a slight increase in the levels of drought across the region. Widespread D0 (abnormally dry) has never quite gone away, but we've seen the D1 (moderate) and D2 (severe) drought areas grow a bit recently. An area of severe drought currently exists from Hart County south/southwest towards Macon then again west towards the Alabama border. Continued dry? Unfortunately we don't have any significant rainfall in the forecast any time soon. Below you can see the surface map as...