ATLANTA — Like a swinging pendulum, summer rainfall in Atlanta has featured two sets of extremes.
June was dry and hot, sending the north Georgia area into a rapid-onset (flash) drought.
But come July, mother nature delivered our wettest month for Atlanta in nearly 2 decades. We closed 4th wettest for the month with 14.02 inches of rain.
In August, the dryness has once again taken hold. Atlanta's Hartfield-Jackson International Airport is closing out the month with just 0.80" of rain. This was our driest month in nearly 5 years, since September 2019. It also finishes as the 4th driest August on record for the city.
The abnormally dry finish to summer also came with plenty of heat. August closes out with 25 days at or above 90 degrees and an average temperature of 82.2 degrees, the ninth warmest August for the city.
This hot, dry trend has once again introduced some level 1 'Moderate' drought back to north Georgia, with abnormally dry conditions for much of the metro north of I-20.
