Atlanta ontsnapt aan droogterecord
Atlanta ontsnapt aan droogterecord.
Na vier dagen regen heeft de Amerikaanse stad Atlanta net geen droogterecord bereikt. In één jaar tijd is net zoveel gevallen als ongeveer gemiddeld is in De Bilt.
Het droogste jaar tot nog toe was 1954 met 807 millimeter. De verwachting was dat dit jaar droger zou worden. Maar de regen in de laatste week van het jaar zorgde voor een jaartotaal van 809 millimeter. Daarmee blijft 1954 het droogste jaar.
Een derde deel van het zuidoosten van de Verenigde Staten kampt met ernstige droogte. Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama en North en South Carolina zijn vooral getroffen. Gemiddeld valt er jaarlijks 1200 tot 1400 millimeter neerslag.
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Na vier dagen regen heeft de Amerikaanse stad Atlanta net geen droogterecord bereikt. In één jaar tijd is net zoveel gevallen als ongeveer gemiddeld is in De Bilt.
Het droogste jaar tot nog toe was 1954 met 807 millimeter. De verwachting was dat dit jaar droger zou worden. Maar de regen in de laatste week van het jaar zorgde voor een jaartotaal van 809 millimeter. Daarmee blijft 1954 het droogste jaar.
Een derde deel van het zuidoosten van de Verenigde Staten kampt met ernstige droogte. Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama en North en South Carolina zijn vooral getroffen. Gemiddeld valt er jaarlijks 1200 tot 1400 millimeter neerslag.
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Holiday rains spare Atlanta from drought record.
Thanks to a rainy holiday season, the Atlanta area stayed just above its historical low-water mark for annual rainfall, the National Weather Service reported.
With clear skies forecast for Monday, the yearly total Sunday night stood at 31.85 inches -- five hundredths of an inch over the 31.80 recorded in 1954, NWS forecaster Dan Darbe said.
"It still holds," Darbe said. "This year is now the second-driest on record."
A dead fish lies on the exposed lake bottom at Lake Allatoona in Emerson, Georgia, on October 25.
The Atlanta area, which is home to more than 5 million people, typically gets between 50 and 55 inches of rain a year, according to weather service records.
But the Southeast has been grappling with an extreme drought since mid-2006, depleting the two major reservoirs that serve the city and its fast-growing suburbs and forcing state and local officials to impose water restrictions.
The drought has intensified a long-running battle among Georgia, Alabama and Florida over how to share water resources.
An Atlanta-area chain of nurseries has blamed its November bankruptcy filing on the dry spell, and marinas have pulled boats out of ever-shallower water or shuffled floating docks around to deeper points to keep them afloat.
The weather service's long-term forecast offers no relief, with exceptionally dry conditions expected to persist across the Southeast and possibly extend into Florida and the eastern Gulf Coast.
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Thanks to a rainy holiday season, the Atlanta area stayed just above its historical low-water mark for annual rainfall, the National Weather Service reported.
With clear skies forecast for Monday, the yearly total Sunday night stood at 31.85 inches -- five hundredths of an inch over the 31.80 recorded in 1954, NWS forecaster Dan Darbe said.
"It still holds," Darbe said. "This year is now the second-driest on record."
A dead fish lies on the exposed lake bottom at Lake Allatoona in Emerson, Georgia, on October 25.
The Atlanta area, which is home to more than 5 million people, typically gets between 50 and 55 inches of rain a year, according to weather service records.
But the Southeast has been grappling with an extreme drought since mid-2006, depleting the two major reservoirs that serve the city and its fast-growing suburbs and forcing state and local officials to impose water restrictions.
The drought has intensified a long-running battle among Georgia, Alabama and Florida over how to share water resources.
An Atlanta-area chain of nurseries has blamed its November bankruptcy filing on the dry spell, and marinas have pulled boats out of ever-shallower water or shuffled floating docks around to deeper points to keep them afloat.
The weather service's long-term forecast offers no relief, with exceptionally dry conditions expected to persist across the Southeast and possibly extend into Florida and the eastern Gulf Coast.
©CNN
