Dahlonega Weather – WARM February

Not that February is officially over…as is Meteorological Winter, its time to see where it stood in the records books.  February 2018 will go down as warm and wet.  Here are the numbers….

Average Temp: 49.2 … rank…5th warmest on record.  Warmest is 52.0 back in 1927.

Average High: 59.5…rank…7th.  Warmest is 60.8 back in 1938.

Average Low:  43.6…rank…1st…tied 43.6 from 1927.

Rain:  10.73 inches…rank…8th.  Wettest is 14.11 back in 1903.

Records Highs Set:

Feb 22nd…75.2…old record was 74 from 1917

Feb 23rd…73.9…old record was 72.9 from 2012

Record Warm Lows Set:

Feb 11th…56.2…old record was 55 in 1965

Feb 20th…55.9…old record was 55 in 1951

Feb 21st…61.4…old record was 52 in 1955

Feb 22nd…59.7…old record was 59 in 1897

Feb 24th…58.6…old record was 54 in 1985

 

There you have it.  Winter is officially over as far as record keeping goes and it if wasn’t for our amazing early December snow storm it would have been a winter weather dud.  LOL.

Jason

31 thoughts on “Dahlonega Weather – WARM February”

  7. Kevin Castle

    13.25″ for the month on the mountain just above Stone Pile. I’ll never complain about rain in Georgia. A decade long drought will check any complaints.

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