September’s rainfall for parts of north and west Georgia was as much as 2-3+ inches below normal, according to data released Sunday by the National Weather Service (NWS) office in Peachtree City.
Rainfall in Gainesville last month was about one inch below normal. The year-to-date total, however, is about six inches above normal.
“While a cold front is expected to bring rain Friday, the current forecast is calling for (only a tenth-of-an-inch),” the NWS said in a Facebook posting. Forecasters say they will be monitoring how drought conditions evolve during this week, the first week of October, traditionally one of the driest months of the year in our area.
As we reported Saturday, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is closely monitoring the drought prospects in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint (ACF) River Basin, which includes Lake Lanier, noting that drought conditions already exist in the basin in southwest Georgia and southeast Alabama. creeped | 97.5 Glory FM | North Georgia’s Family Radio Station (wgtjradio.com)