Gville temps this summer 2+ degrees above normal

The average temperature in Gainesville this summer was 2.4 degrees above normal.

The National Weather Service (NWS) Peachtree City office reports that is the warmest of any of the nine reporting stations in north and central Georgia included in the area it serves. The average daily high in Gainesville was 89.6 degrees. The warmest day was June 26 when a high of 98 was recorded. The data comes from the NWS station at Lee Gilmer Memorial Airport and covers June-August and is included in the agency’s Summer 2024 Climate Summary.

Rainfall in Gainesville, meanwhile, totaled 10.85 inches for the three months, 2.53 inches below normal. Three reporting stations – Columbus, Macon and Fulton County Airport – each recorded a rainfall deficit of more than five inches.

The full report can be seen here: Summer 2024 Climate Summary (weather.gov)

About the Author

Ken Stanford is Online News Editor for GLORY 97.5, a position he has held since August 2022.

Ken was born in Moultrie, Georgia, and says he knew from the time he was 5 or 6 he wanted to be a “radio announcer.” That dream was realized when he was hired by Moultrie radio station WMTM in 1960 at the age of 15 as a weekend disc jockey. A 1963 graduate of Moultrie (now Colquitt County) High School, he has spent his whole career in Georgia working for stations in Atlanta, Marietta, and Gainesville – most recently as News Director for 40 years at WDUN in Gainesville. He is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force Reserves.

Ken retired in 2011 but came out of retirement last year to help GLORY, on a part-time basis, beef-up its online news presence.

He is the recipient of many Associated Press awards and is a former judge of state and national Associated Press broadcast news contests. In 2005, he was presented with the Georgia Associated Press Broadcasters Association’s President’s Award for Excellence in Journalism and in 2019 was inducted into the Georgia Radio Hall of Fame.

He lives in Gainesville with his wife of 52 years, the former Sandra McKnight of Clio, Alabama, and they have one child, a daughter, Lisa, who lives in Cumming with her family.