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Get the Atlanta, GA local weather forecast by the hour and the next 10 days.
From reporter Miguel Legoas: According to USA Today's live "OFF THE GRID" tracker, Georgia has seen 15,323 outages within the last 72 hours as of 9:15 a.m. Currently the county with the highest ...
In Georgia alone, more than a million people were without power as of about 3:30 p.m. ET Friday, according to USA TODAY's tracker. Chatham County had the most residents without power, at over ...
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.
In Atlanta, the National Weather Service in Peachtree City issued the city's first-ever flash flood emergency due to Atlanta having its heaviest 3-day rainfall totals in 104 years. [ 32 ] [ 33 ] Rainfall totals over 48 hours in the city reached 11.12 in (282 mm), the most the city has seen in 48 hours since recordkeeping began in 1878. [ 34 ]
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.)
Atlanta totaled more than 11 inches of rain in 48 hours, smashing a record that stood for almost 150 years. Western North Carolina took the brunt of the devastating rains , and more than 30 inches ...
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