Snow coming next week?
According to the Lawrenceville Weather Blog, we’ve got a chance at seeing some snow (or sleet, or freezing rain, or ice) next week.
Accuweather almost agrees, saying that we’ll get “Rain, which can freeze on surfaces late”. Whichever forecast you prefer, it seems like to be near freezing with some precipitation, which means it could get interesting.
Accuweather is calling for around 4/10″. Even if it’s frozen, it will melt pretty quickly and give us a tiny bit of relief. The lake has been holding pretty steady lately (we’re at the exact same level as last Sunday - 1051.28′), but this is the time of year when we really need it to start rising.
January 14th, 2008 at 2:47 am
I hope it is snow, or sleet, because an ice storm is bad news. A couple of years ago a ice storm at my house near Stone Mountain caused branches to snap out of trees. Took me a few days to clean up the mess.
January 14th, 2008 at 10:21 am
It surprised me that we got a nice rain last week without any gain in the lake level. Releases need to be slowed. We don’t need to release from Lanier to keep the 5000 cf/s minimum flow running now because they have plenty of water downstream and they are doubling that flow rate or more. Why can’t the releases be cut back more? Alabama power plants??
January 14th, 2008 at 8:07 pm
Snow can be, but is not necessarily, better than rain.
Snow falling on warm ground can melt, usually slowly, which allows time to moisten the ground / dirt and perhaps percolate into the water table, which is a good way to help ease a hydrological drop. On the flip side, snow can often sublimate from a solid directly into gaseous water vapor before it melts enough to have any impact on the ground moisture. In a drought, the best case scenario is is a rapid melt so that the moisture can at least form runoff for accumulation in a lake behind a conservation dam.
One additional benefit for agricultural concerns is that snow is typically much higher in nitrogen than rain, and is often highly beneficial as a natural supplemental fertilizer or soil enrichment, espcially in spring as the growing season is getting underway.
January 16th, 2008 at 9:44 pm
Half an inch of snow tonight at Stone Mountain, so it looks cool.
January 18th, 2008 at 2:57 am
Supposed to snow again Friday and Saturday, so watch out above Atlanta.
January 19th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
Georgia’s drought may have been reeling, punishing, but all things work out in salutary fashion, given enough time and God willing. I reside in California, and if I could have a hamburger for each time the “experts” and the media asseverated that our state was doomed as a result of existing drought conditions, well, hey, I could put the good folk at McDonald’s out of business. (Burger King, too.) Patience, everyone — the Lord has arranged nature to provide the appropriate rain, snow, and eclectic precipitation in its proper time. Things may seem bleak, but time passes and healing always interpolates a new, better day.