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ATLANTA – A rainy start to the week is triggering the potential for areas of flash flooding for millions across the South, including for those in the Atlanta area. A large area of high pressure ...
Georgia power outages. In Georgia alone, more than a million people were without power as of about 7:30 a.m. Friday, according to USA TODAY's tracker.Chatham County had the most residents without ...
The heavy rainfall helped to relieve a persistent drought. However, climatologists determined that the rainfall did not fully alleviate the dry conditions. [18] The band of thunderstorms produced gusts of 40 to 50 mph (64 to 80 km/h), downing trees and power lines. In the Atlanta area, 48,000 customers experienced power outages. [19]
Average annual precipitation for Georgia. The entire state, including the North Georgia mountains, receives moderate to heavy rain, which varies from 45 inches (1,100 mm) in central Georgia [6] to approximately 75 inches (1,900 mm) around the Northeast part of the state. [7] Georgia has had severe droughts in the past, especially in 2007.
Rain began falling on the Atlanta area on September 15, 2009, with the National Weather Service (NWS) reporting only 0.04 inches that day at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. [3] Additional rain fell throughout the week, with only a trace amount recorded for September 18. [3]
Douglasville received the most rain in 24 hours than any other city in metro Atlanta, the city received over 16.5 inches of rain on Sept 21, 2009. (The USGS calculated it to be a greater-than- 500-year flood ; the National Weather Service stated that chances of that much rain anywhere in the region are 1 in 10,000 years.)
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