Wild January Ride Continues

Thanks this morning to Hunter Madewell of Dayton Mountain for the top picture today. This nice shot was taken early Saturday morning in Bledsoe, County. The middle and bottom pictures were sent to WRCB-TV3 by the Rhodes Family in Morganton, GA. Thanks to them for showing the light coating of snow they received this past weekend. I think the shot in the middle kind of illustrates what we have been seeing so far this January. An almost spring-like plant with a touch of winter on it.

Heavy rainfall at times today, with many locations picking up 1 1/2" of rain pretty easily. Some spots may end up with some downpours that push their totals to between 2" and 3". We'll find out from our skywatchers later. This will reverse a 5 month trend of below normal rainfall stretching back to our last ABOVE normal month....July.

Here are the months and deficits from 2005

1. December -.96"
2. November -1.31"
3. October -2.51"
4. September -2.39"
5. August -1.41"

Most of the rain will be out of here by tonight, but there's still a chance to see some mountain flurries or snow showers late tonight and in the very early morning hours of Wednesday. Winds today will whip across the area out of the southwest, and come around to the west and northwest tonight and Wednesday. Southwest winds and sunshine will boost temperatures back into the upper 50s to around 60 Thursday afternoon. And we should end up in the low 60s again on Friday. Another round of soaking rain and storms for Saturday.

This wild January ride continues.