We have certainly had our share of rain this year, not only in Georgia, but the entire southeast.
Here are some rainfall total figures for June here at DaculaWeather.com. Notice the tremendous difference between this year and the past few:
June Rainfall
2013 - 33.99 to date
2012 - 18.00
2011 - 23.88
2010 - 29.05
2009 - 20.69
As of the end of May, rainfall at Hartsfield Airport was running more than 7" above normal. Here, as of today, I'm running 8.34" above normal for the year so far here.
So you're probably wondering when all of this rain is going to stop? Better keep your umbrellas close by because it isn't going to be stopping anytime soon! Beginning over the weekend, the southeast will get trapped in a conveyor belt of moisture from the Gulf of Mexico (like we haven't had that already!) as two anomalously large ridges of high pressure sandwich our area to our left and right. This will force moisture to ride northward in between the ridges and bring very heavy rains to many areas in the southeast.
Right now it's difficult to say exactly where the heavy rains will fall, but if you're heading to the beaches, whether it's in Florida, or all along the Atlantic coast, be prepared for rain next week. The WPC (Weather Prediction Center) is currently predicting that parts of the west coast of Florida will receive 7"+ over the next 7 days (see image above). Not good for me either as I'm headed to Sarasota next week.
Here are some radar estimated precipitation maps for the metro area from 24 hours, 7 days, 2 weeks, and 30 days. You can see the hit or miss nature of the storms in the short term, and which areas have repeatedly had rain in the long term. All of these maps can be viewed any time here on DaculaWeather.com.
And to not leave out any weather information for today, almost the entire state of Georgia is outlined in a "Slight Risk" severe weather area by the Storm Prediction Center for Friday. Here are their thoughts:
...LOWER MS VALLEY INTO SERN STATES...
RICH LOW-LEVEL MOISTURE WITH LOW-MID 70S DEWPOINTS WILL PERSIST IN PRE-FRONTAL WARM SECTOR AND SUPPORT 2000-2500 J/KG MLCAPE AS THE SFC LAYER WARMS. STORMS MAY BE ONGOING BY 12Z FRIDAY FROM AR TO WRN TN WITHIN ZONE OF LOW-LEVEL WARM ADVECTION...POSING A MODEST SEVERE THREAT. OTHER STORMS MAY DEVELOP ALONG RESIDUAL OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES FROM MORNING CONVECTION AND IN WARM SECTOR AS THE ATMOSPHERE DESTABILIZES. MUCH OF THIS REGION WILL RESIDE WITHIN BELT OF MODERATE NWLY-WNWLY WINDS ALOFT WITH MODEST NWLY /20-30 KT/ UNIDIRECTIONAL EFFECTIVE SHEAR. THIS ENVIRONMENT WILL FAVOR SEWD MOVING MULTICELLS AND STORM CLUSTERS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING ISOLATED DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AND HAIL THROUGH EARLY EVENING.
So in other words... more of the same. As always, be on the lookout for severe weather which can occur just about anywhere these storms pop-up.
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