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Weather on This Date - February 11

2/11/2018

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February 11, 1899 
Perhaps the greatest of all arctic outbreaks commenced on this date. The temperature plunged to 61 degrees below zero in Montana. At the same time a "Great Eastern Blizzard" left a blanket of snow from Georgia to New Hampshire. The state of Virginia took the brunt of the storm, with snowfall totals averaging 30 to 40 inches. (David Ludlum) 

February 11, 1983 
The Middle Atlantic Coast States and southern New England were in the midst of a major snowstorm. In Pennsylvania, the storm produced 21 inches at Philadelphia, 24 inches at Harrisburg, and 25 inches at Allentown, establishing record 24 hour totals and single storm totals for those locations. New York City received 22 inches of snow, and 35 inches was reported at Glen Gary, located in the Blue Ridge Mountains of West Virginia. Windsor Locks CT received a record 19 inches of snow in 12 hours. The storm resulted in forty-six deaths, thirty-three of which occurred when a freighter capsized and sank off the Maryland/Virginia coast. Heavy snow was reported from northeastern Georgia to eastern Maine. (10th-12th) (Storm Data) (The Weather Channel) 

February 11, 1987 
Denver, CO, reported only their third occurrence of record of a thunderstorm in February. Ten cities in the north central U.S. reported record high temperatures for the date. Huron SD reported February temperatures averaging 19 degrees above normal. Williston ND reported readings averaging 24 degrees above normal for the month. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 

February 11, 1988 
Bitter cold air gripped the north central U.S. Morning lows of 35 degrees below zero at Aberdeen SD, Bismarck ND and International Falls MN were records for the date. Bemidji MN was, officially, the cold spot in the nation with a low of 39 degrees below zero, however, a reading of 42 degrees below zero was reported at Gettysburg SD. In the Northern High Plains Region, Baker MT warmed from 27 degrees below zero to 40 above. (The National Weather Summary) 

February 11, 1989 
While much of the continental U.S. enjoyed sunshine and seasonable temperatures, a strong weather system over the Hawaiian Islands deluged Honolulu with 2.5 inches of rain. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 

February 11, 1990 
A winter storm produced up to ten inches of snow in Vermont, and up to nine inches of snow in Aroostook County of northeastern Maine. A three day snowstorm began to overspread Oregon, and the winter storm produced 29 inches of snow at Bennett Pass. Mild weather continued in the central U.S. La Crosse WI reported a record forty-seven consecutive days with temperatures above normal. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 

February 11, 2004 
North Dakota Governor John Hoeven declares a snow emergency as winds gusting over 70 mph along with heavy snow produces low visibilities and drifts up to 20 feet in northwestern North Dakota. Amtrak train service is interrupted in the region. The Weather Doctor 

February 11, 2006 
Snowfall records fell in Philadelphia and Allentown, Pennsylvania, Bridgeport and Hartford, Connecticut, Newark, New Jersey, and Worchester and Boston, Massachusetts. The highest total reported was 30.2 inches at Fairfield, CT. New York City set a record one-day snowfall record of 26.9 inches in Central Park. 

February 11, 2014
The beginnings of what was to become a historical storm began impacting the state. This storm came in two waves, the first coming on this date. Between 2 and 5 inches of snow fell north of a Rome to Gainesville line. South of this line a mixture of rain, sleet and snow fell but with little impact at that time. The second wave came the next day, February 12th. For more information on this storm, view the event summary. (NWS Atlanta)​

Data courtesy of WeatherForYou

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February 11-13, 2014 Winter Storm

Here is a gallery of images (at the bottom) that I saved from the February 11-13, 2014 winter storm, and the NWS has more information on their event summary page. I've also included the storm summary and a two of the AFD's from the 12 hour period preceding the storm.
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Snow at my house on February 13, 2014.
NWS Atlanta Storm Summary -
On the heels of a significant winter storm 2 weeks earlier, a more powerful storm brought heavy snow and record level of ice to north and central Georgia on February 11-13, 2014. Two rounds of precipitation occurred with this event. The first moved in early Tuesday morning on the 11th bringing 2 to 5 inches snow to areas roughly north of a Rome to Gainesville line. South of this line a mixture of rain, sleet and snow occurred with little impact at the time.

The second round proved to be more significant of the two... as it moved in Wednesday morning as a cold air damming event, or wedge front, pushed southwest from upstate South Carolina and into northeast Georgia and points south and west. The precipitation continued through day and into the overnight. Fortunately a "dry slot" wrapped around the south end east side of the upper level low pressure area. This dry slot caused precipitation to break up across much of the area late Wednesday morning through the afternoon. This dry slot was larger and further north than most computer forecasts were indicating previously. Had it developed as expected further south, the impact of freezing rain and snow would have been much, more worse. That said, areas along and just south of the Interstate 20 corridor of East Central Georgia still received ice totals not seen in decades. By the time the precipitation wrapping around the back side of the upper low pressure area ended late Wednesday night in north Georgia, a large area of 2 to 4 inches of snow had fallen roughly north of I-20 and ice accumulations of 1/4 to over 1/2 inch near Atlanta and amounts over 3/4 of an inch all along the I-20 east corridor towards Augusta (see accumulation map).

Tuesday AM AFD


​FXUS62 KFFC 110930
AFDFFC

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
430 AM EST TUE FEB 11 2014

.SHORT TERM /TODAY/...

PRECIP WITH THIS INITIAL WAVE HAS ALREADY STARTED TO SPREAD ACROSS THE CWA. ACROSS CENTRAL GEORGIA THIS IS MAKING IT TO THE GROUND AS RAIN. NORTH AND WEST OF ATL... THERE HAVE BEEN REPORTS OF A RAIN/SLEET MIX WITH SOME SNOW. ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS... SOME LIGHT RETURNS ON RADAR AND THIS ACTUALLY HAS BEEN MAKING IT TO THE GROUND AS SNOW. TEMPERATURES CONTINUE TO BE A VARIABLE IN THE FORECAST TODAY. CONTINUED TO GO ON THE COOLER SIDE OF MAV/MET MOS... ACTUALLY
THOUGH FORECAST MAX TEMPS ARE NOT TOO FAR OFF FROM THE ECMWF MOS... MAYBE JUST A TAD WARMER ACROSS THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE CWA.

CONTINUE TO SUPPORT A WINTRY MIX ACROSS NORTH GEORGIA THROUGH THE MORNING GIVEN TEMPERATURES. SOUNDING SUPPORT SNOW AT BRASSTOWN DURING THE MORNING... SNOW/SLEET AT RMG... RAIN/SLEET AT CTJ AND
PRETTY MUCH ALL RAIN AT ATL. MOVING INTO THE AFTERNOON THOUGH...ATMOSPHERE IS SUPPORTIVE OF RAIN...EXCEPT MAYBE THE NORTHEAST GA MOUNTAINS. BRASSTOWN BALD BUFR SOUNDING SHOWING RAIN FOR THE AFTERNOON... BUT THINK THE SFC TEMPS ARE TOO WARM AND ABOVE THAT... ALL BELOW FREEZING.

STILL NOT SUPER CONFIDENT ON THE AMOUNTS AS THE TEMPERATURES WILL PLAY SUCH A BIG ROLE IN AREAS THAT SEE SNOW/SLEET AND THOSE THAT ONLY SEE RAIN. MAINLY THOUGH...LOOKS LIKE UP TO AN INCH OF SNOW/SLEET FOR TODAY... MAINLY IN THE FLOYD TO LUMPKIN/WHITE
CORRIDOR. CHALLENGE WITH THE FAR NORTH GEORGIA IS THAT GFS AND NAM ARE CONSERVATIVE WITH PRECIP ACROSS THAT AREA. BASED ON RADAR TRENDS THOUGH... STILL THINK THEY WILL SEE SOME ACCUMULATION ACROSS THE FAR NORTH. WILL HAVE TO MONITOR TRENDS CLOSELY TO SEE IF HIGHER AMOUNTS ARE POSSIBLE. IN THE GRAND SCHEME OF THINGS...AMOUNTS FOR TODAY ARE ON THE LOWER SIDE. A REMINDER AGAIN... EVEN IF YOU RECEIVE LITTLE IMPACT FROM THE EVENT TODAY... OR EVEN NOTHING AT ALL... THE BIGGER STORY IS THE TUESDAY NIGHT TO THURSDAY EVENT AND THAT LOOKS TO BE VERY SIGNIFICANT AND POTENTIALLY PARALYZING FOR MUCH OF THE CWA.

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.SHORT TERM /00Z WED THRU 12Z THU/...
LETS JUST START BY SAYING THIS WINTER STORM MAY BE OF HISTORIC PROPORTIONS FOR PORTIONS OF THE AREA. WE ARE LOOKING AT SIGNIFICANT SNOWFALL TOTALS NORTH /ESPECIALLY NORTHEAST/ AND SIGNIFICANT... CRIPPLING... ICE TOTALS ESPECIALLY ALONG THE INTERSTATE 20 CORRIDOR.
THE HIGHEST ICE TOTALS WILL BE IN A ROUGH WEDGE GENERALLY FROM THE METRO ATLANTA AREA AND POINTS EAST... SOUTH OF I-85... AND NORTH OF I-16.

SYNOPTIC GUIDANCE IN GENERAL AGREEMENT WITH MASS FIELDS. SOUTHWEST FLOW ALOFT AS A STRONG SHORTWAVE PUSHES INTO THE SOUTHERN PLAINS AND ANOTHER ROUND OF DEEP MOISTURE OVERSPREADS THE SOUTHERN TIER OF THE COUNTRY. MEANWHILE A SURFACE HIGH PUSHES EAST ACROSS THE GREAT LAKES AND RIDGES DOWN THE EASTERN SLOPES OF THE APPALACHIANS IN A DIABATICALLY-ENHANCED CLASSICAL CAD SCENARIO. SURFACE LOW DEVELOPING IN THE NORTHERN GULF WILL PUSH INTO THE SOUTHEAST ON WEDNESDAY. ECMWF CONTINUES TO HAVE A SLIGHTLY WESTWARD TRACK FOR THE SURFACE LOW BUT IS IN MUCH BETTER AGREEMENT WITH GFS VS THIS TIME
YESTERDAY... WITH BOTH MODELS KEEPING THE LOW TO THE SOUTHEAST OF OUR AREA CLOSE TO THE COAST. UPPER LOW DEEPENS OVER THE TENNESSEE VALLEY WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND CLOSES OFF BY THE END OF THE PERIOD AT 12Z
THURSDAY.

THE EASY PART... HAVE PRETTY MUCH 100 POPS ACROSS THE AREA THROUGH THIS PERIOD... BEGINNING TO LIFT OUT AFTER 00Z THURSDAY AND RAPIDLY DECREASING TOWARD 12Z AS THE SYSTEM EXITS. WINDS ARE ALSO PRETTY EASY WITH MOST OF THE AREA FIRMLY WITHIN THE COLD DOME... SO EXPECT STRONG NORTHEAST WINDS 10-15 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 25... UNTIL THE COLD FRONT PUSHES THROUGH TOWARD THE END OF THE PERIOD WITH MUCH LIGHTER WINDS BEHIND IT.

NOW ONTO THE DIFFICULT... AND VERY CONCERNING... PARTS. GUIDANCE IS IN DISTURBINGLY GOOD AGREEMENT ON TEMPS THROUGH THE EVENT WITH LOWS TONIGHT BELOW FREEZING IN NORTHEAST ZONES AS THE COLD DOME PUSHES
IN. VERY LITTLE TEMPERATURE CHANGE EXPECTED THROUGH THE DAY ON WEDNESDAY. EVERYONE SHOULD BE AT OR BELOW FREEZING FOR WEDNESDAY NIGHT ON THE BACK EDGE OF THE SYSTEM. NOW...AS WITH ANY WINTRY PRECIP EVENT... ACTUAL SURFACE TEMPS MAY VARY SLIGHTLY AND ANY VARIATION COULD RESULT IN SOME PRETTY SERIOUS FORECAST BUSTS... BUT GIVEN THE STRENGTH OF THE COLD DOME CONFIDENCE IS FAIRLY HIGH IN SURFACE TEMPS.

AS THE COLD DOME BUILDS IN... WAA AND OVERRUNNING ATOP THE COLD DOME WILL STRENGTHEN THE WARM NOSE BETWEEN 800-900MB. IN THE ABSENCE OF HORIZONTAL THERMAL ADVECTION... DIABATIC PROCESSES DOMINATE AND WITH THE LATENT HEAT OF MELTING INTO THE WARM NOSE AND FREEZING INTO THE COLD DOME... FREEZING RAIN WOULD BE A SELF-LIMITING PROCESS. HOWEVER... SURFACE CAA CERTAINLY LOOKS STRONG ENOUGH TO OVERCOME THIS
ESPECIALLY IN EASTERN ZONES. SO WITH THAT... EXPECT RAIN TONIGHT TO MIX WITH OR CHANGE OVER TO A SLEET/SNOW MIX ACROSS EXTREME NORTHERN ZONES... SPREADING SOUTH INTO THE METRO AREA AROUND MIDNIGHT. AS THE
WAA AT 850MB INCREASES TOWARD SUNRISE... SLEET SHOULD MIX WITH AND CHANGE OVER TO FREEZING RAIN FROM THE ATLANTA METRO SOUTH TOWARD MACON. SHOULD BE ALL SNOW IN THE NORTHEAST MOUNTAINS BUT CANNOT RULE
OUT TRACE AMOUNTS OF ICE. EXPECT FREEZING RAIN TO BE PRETTY MUCH CONTINUOUS THROUGH THE DAY IN THAT I-20 TO I-16 CORRIDOR UNTIL SURFACE TEMPS WARM SLIGHTLY DURING THE AFTERNOON WHEN THE FREEZING RAIN MIXES WITH OR CHANGES OVER TO RAIN ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF THAT CORRIDOR. THIS MAY BE A REAL HELP IN THAT ANY LIQUID THAT FALLS WILL HELP TO MELT ICE ACCUMULATIONS. NOT SO LUCKY I-20 AND AREAS NORTH AS THE COLD DOME IS STRONG ENOUGH TO KEEP THOSE LOCATIONS BELOW
FREEZING.

AS THE UPPER LOW MOVES CLOSER WEDNESDAY NIGHT INTO EARLY THURSDAY... LAPSE RATES ALOFT WILL INCREASE AND EVEN THOUGH MOISTURE DEPTH SHALLOWS A BIT... DEFORMATION AXIS SHOULD SET UP AT LEAST BRIEFLY AND
COMBINED WITH THE STEEP LAPSE RATES WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING OVER TO LIGHT SNOW AT THE END. WELL... IN SOME AREAS... IT MIGHT NOT BE QUITE SO LIGHT... BUT EVERYONE SHOULD TRANSITION TO FROZEN /VS FREEZING/
PRECIP BEFORE THE SYSTEM FINALLY MOVES OUT. LUCKILY WE SHOULD DEFINITELY SEE SOME IMPROVEMENT ON THURSDAY... WITH CLEARING SKIES AND TEMPS ON THE INCREASE AGAIN.

SO WHAT DOES ALL THIS MEAN. WELL... QPF TOTALS THROUGH THE EVENT ARE IMPRESSIVE WITH OVER 2 INCHES IN SOME AREAS BUT AT LEAST AN INCH EVERYWHERE. WE ARE DEFINITELY LOOKING AT A WETTER SNOW WITH RATIOS
CLOSER TO 8:1 BUT EVEN SO... THAT WOULD MEAN 8 INCHES OF SNOW WITH 1 INCH LIQUID. NOT SURPRISINGLY... STORM TOTAL SNOWFALL AMOUNTS IN THE NORTHEAST GEORGIA MOUNTAINS ARE AN IMPRESSIVE 7-9 INCHES... AND ISOLATED HIGHER AMOUNTS CANNOT BE RULED OUT. THE REST OF NORTH GEORGIA /ROUGHLY THE NORTHERN TWO TIERS OF COUNTIES/ CAN EXPECT OVER 4 INCHES. THESE STORM TOTALS ARE THROUGH THE DURATION OF THE EVENT AS PTYPE SHOULD BE MOSTLY SNOW WITH MAYBE SOME SLEET MIXED IN. WITH THE SNOW ON THE BACK EDGE OF THE SYSTEM... THERE WILL BE A SHARP GRADIENT ON THE SOUTH SIDE WITH 1-2 INCHES OF SNOW STORM TOTAL IN THE METRO AREA... THE 1 INCH LINE GENERALLY FROM FRANKLIN TO
WARRENTON... BUT NOTHING EXPECTED FOR EXAMPLE FROM LA GRANGE TO LOUISVILLE. THE BIGGER IMPACTS ACROSS THE METRO AREA AND POINTS SOUTH WILL BE FROM THE ICE... WITH CURRENT FORECASTS REFLECTING A QUARTER OF AN INCH EAST OF A CURVE FROM GAINESVILLE TO CARROLLTON TO SWAINSBORO. HALF AN INCH FROM DANIELSVILLE TO ATLANTA TO LOUISVILLE... AND OVER THREE QUARTERS OF AN INCH FROM GREENSBORO TO WARRENTON. THESE TOTALS MAY OF COURSE BE ADJUSTED SOME IN BOTH LOCATION AND AMOUNTS WITH ADDITIONAL FORECASTS BUT OVERALL I WANT TO EMPHASIZE AGAIN... THESE ARE CRIPPLING SNOW AND ICE TOTALS IN THIS STORM OF POTENTIALLY HISTORIC PROPORTIONS. RESIDENTS OF NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA NEED TO DO EVERYTHING THEY CAN TODAY TO PREPARE FOR THIS EVENT. RESIDENTS ARE VERY VERY VERY STRONGLY URGED TO STAY OFF THE ROADS WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT.

Tuesday PM AFD


​FXUS62 KFFC 112155
AFDFFC

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
455 PM EST TUE FEB 11 2014

...MAJOR WINTER STORM WITH CRIPPLING EFFECTS STILL EXPECTED...

.SHORT TERM /TONIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT/...


VERY SORRY TO BE SO LATE WITH THIS BUT LOTS OF COORDINATION AND TWEAKS TO THE GRIDS BASED ON THE LATEST MODELS. FIRST WAVE OF PRECIPITATION THIS MORNING PRODUCED QUITE THE SWATH OF SNOWFALL 
ACROSS THE NORTHERN TIER. FORTUNATELY TEMPERATURES WHICH WERE BELOW FREEZING THIS MORNING ROSE ABOVE BY MID MORNING AND ARE NOW IN THE MID 30S FOR MOST AREAS. THIS HAS ALLOWED THE AVERAGE 2 TO 3 INCH SNOWFALL TO MELT IN SOME LOCATIONS. WE DID HAVE REPORTS OF HIGHER AMOUNTS CLOSE TO 6 INCHES WITHIN SOME OF THE HEAVIER BANDS WHICH MOVED THROUGH. A MUCH NEEDED BREAK CURRENTLY AS WE ARE BETWEEN SHORTWAVES WITH EVEN SOME NVA WORKING INTO THE AREA AT THIS HOUR FOR THE NORTH. TO THE SOUTH... STILL SOME LIGHT RAIN AND DRIZZLE BUT OVERALL POP TREND HAS BEEN DOWNWARD.

MODEL CHANGES...
OVERALL GOOD AGREEMENT IN THE MODELS WITH TRENDS BEING A COLDER SOLUTION... ESPECIALLY THE GFS WHICH BRINGS IN MID 20'S THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING IN DEVELOPING WEDGE. THIS WILL MAKE THE ENTIRE DIFFERENCE IN THIS FORECAST AS TEMPERATURES REMAINING IN THE LOWER 30S WOULD STILL RESULT IN A SIGNIFICANT STORM BUT NOT A HISTORIC ONE. NAM12 IS HIGHER WITH ITS TEMPS BUT STILL HAS AREAS RIGHT AROUND THE 30 DEGREE MARK AND SIGNIFICANT ICING IMPACTS. BASED ON THE CLIMATOLOGY OF DEVELOPING CAD WEDGES AND THE EXPECTED QPF FROM WPC... HAVE GONE WITH THE MORE DIRE PREDICTIONS OF A HALF AND INCH
OF ICE TO CLOSE TO AN INCH FOR EAST CENTRAL PORTIONS OF THE STATE.

BIGGEST CHANGE PERHAPS IS THE SNOWFALL ACCUMULATIONS WITH NOW 4 TO 8 INCHES ACROSS THE NORTHERN TIER WITH 10 INCHES TO PERHAPS A FOOT POSSIBLE IN THE NE MOUNTAINS. WE ALSO INCREASE THE TOTALS FOR THE NORTH ATLANTA METRO WITH AN INCREDIBLY DANGEROUS COMBINATION OF OVER A QUARTER INCH OF ICE AND 2 TO 5 INCHES OF SNOW. THIS WAS USING A CONSERVATIVE APPROACH UTILIZING GIVEN WPC QPF. FLY IN THE OINTMENT WILL BE MORE MIXING IN OF SLEET OR FREEZING RAIN WHICH COULD SIGNIFICANTLY LOWER THE SNOWFALL TOTALS.

WRAP AROUND STILL LOOKS SIGNIFICANT WITH THIS STORM BRINGING A TRANSITION TO LIGHT SNOW FOR MOST ALL AREAS LATE WEDNESDAY NIGHT INTO THURSDAY MORNING. AGAIN WENT ON THE LOWER SIDE OF WHAT SOME OF THE MODELS WERE INDICATING BUT IF DEFORMATION AXIS IS SLOWER TO LIFT OUT...SNOW TOTALS WOULD BE FURTHER ENHANCED.

IN ADDITION TO ALL OF THE ABOVE...WINDS WILL ALSO PROVE TO BE AN ISSUE WITH GUSTS TO 25 KTS CREATING HAVOC WITHIN THE WINTER STORM AND ICE STORM WARNINGS. TREES WILL BE EASILY SNAPPED OR TOPPLED GIVEN THE COMBINATION OF SNOW...ICE AND WINDS. POWERLINES WILL
ALSO BE ESPECIALLY SUSCEPTIBLE AND SOME RESIDENTS WILL BE WITHOUT POWER FOR DAYS AND PERHAPS UP TO A WEEK.

IT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER THAT EFFECTS FROM THIS STORM WILL NOT END WITH THE PRECIP. AS OUR NEIGHBORS TO THE EAST FOUND OUT WITH THE LAST STORM...MELTING OF ICE ON THURSDAY AND ESPECIALLY
FRIDAY WILL CREATE A DANGEROUS SITUATION ON AREA INTERSTATES AS LARGE CHUNKS OF ICE FALL FROM ELEVATED BRIDGES AND OVERPASSES.

DEESE

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.PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 1250 PM EST TUE FEB 11 2014/

LONG TERM /THURSDAY THROUGH MONDAY/...


WE REMAIN IN A NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT SEVERAL WAVES DIVE SOUTHEAST THROUGH MONDAY. THE NEXT SHORT WAVE MOVING THROUGH THE OHIO VALLEY BRINGS SOME MOISTURE SOUTHWARD INTO THE CWA FRIDAY INTO FRIDAY
NIGHT. HAVE LIMITED POPS TO THE NORTHERN ZONES FOR THAT TIME. OVERNIGHT TEMPERATURES WILL SUPPORT SOME LIGHT MIX OF PRECIPITATION FOR FRIDAY NIGHT. ANOTHER WAVE IS ON TAP FOR SATURDAY NIGHT/SUNDAY BUT THE DYNAMICS ARE TOO FAR NORTH. FINALLY...ANOTHER SHORT WAVE BRINGS A FRONT INTO THE CWA AT THE END OF THE PERIOD...LATE MONDAY AND HAVE INCLUDED LOW POPS FOR
MONDAY NIGHT.

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AVIATION...
18Z UPDATE...

MIXED PRECIPITATION CONTINUES TO FALL ACROSS NORTH GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON WITH RAIN... SLEET AND SNOW ACROSS NORTH METRO ATLANTA AND SNOW NORTH OF THE TAF SITES. FOR ALL TAF SITES...EXCEPT MCN AND CSG... EXPECT MOSTLY RAIN WITH SOME SLEET/SNOW POSSIBLY MIXED IN
THROUGH THE EVENING... CHANGING TO FREEZING RAIN LATE TONIGHT. FOR THE MCN AND CSG TAFS SITES EXPECT RAIN TODAY AND THROUGH THE EVENING. IFR CONDITIONS WILL PREDOMINATE THROUGH THE PERIOD. WINDS WILL BE NORTHEAST 8 TO 14KT THROUGH THE EVENING.. .INCREASING TO 14 TO 20KT WITH GUSTS 24-30KT BY 12Z WEDNESDAY.

//ATL CONFIDENCE...18Z UPDATE...
MEDIUM TO HIGH ALL ELEMENTS.

20

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.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
ATHENS          27  28  27  36 / 100 100 100  20
ATLANTA         29  31  28  37 / 100 100  90  10
BLAIRSVILLE     26  31  27  34 /  90  90  90  30
CARTERSVILLE    30  33  29  37 / 100 100  80  10
COLUMBUS        35  37  28  50 / 100 100  90  10
GAINESVILLE     25  29  28  36 / 100 100  90  20
MACON           33  35  28  46 / 100 100 100  10
ROME            31  35  29  37 / 100 100  80  10
PEACHTREE CITY  31  32  28  38 / 100 100  80  10
VIDALIA         34  36  29  46 / 100 100  90  10

&&

.FFC WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
ICE STORM WARNING UNTIL 1 PM EST THURSDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING ZONES:
​
BALDWIN... BIBB... BLECKLEY... BUTTS... CARROLL... CLARKE... CLAYTON... COWETA... CRAWFORD... DOUGLAS... EMANUEL... FAYETTE... GLASCOCK... GREENE... HANCOCK... HEARD... HENRY... HOUSTON... JASPER... JEFFERSON... JOHNSON... JONES... LAMAR... LAURENS... MADISON... MERIWETHER... MONROE... MORGAN... NEWTON... OCONEE... OGLETHORPE... PEACH... PIKE... PUTNAM... ROCKDALE... SOUTH FULTON... SPALDING... TALIAFERRO... TREUTLEN... TROUP... TWIGGS... UPSON... WALTON... WARREN... WASHINGTON... WILKES... WILKINSON.

FREEZING RAIN ADVISORY FROM 7 PM WEDNESDAY TO 1 PM EST THURSDAY
FOR THE FOLLOWING ZONES:

CHATTAHOOCHEE... CRISP...DODGE...DOOLY... HARRIS... MACON... MARION... MONTGOMERY... MUSCOGEE... PULASKI...
SCHLEY... STEWART... SUMTER... TALBOT... TAYLOR... TELFAIR... TOOMBS... WEBSTER... WHEELER... WILCOX.

WINTER STORM WARNING UNTIL 1 PM EST THURSDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING ZONES:
BANKS... BARROW.. .BARTOW... CATOOSA... CHATTOOGA... CHEROKEE... COBB... DADE... DAWSON... DEKALB... FANNIN.. .FLOYD... FORSYTH... GILMER... GORDON... GWINNETT... HALL... HARALSON... JACKSON... LUMPKIN... MURRAY... NORTH FULTON... PAULDING... PICKENS...
POLK... TOWNS... UNION... WALKER... WHITE... WHITFIELD.

&&

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SHORT TERM...DEESE
LONG TERM....SNELSON
AVIATION...20
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