Winter Storm in Gilmer, Georgia

Snow showers began late in the evening on the 30th and developed through the morning of the 31st. Total snowfall ranged from 1 to 4 inches with the greatest accumulations in the higher elevations.

An anomalously deep upper low barreled into the region on Saturday, January 31, bringing very cold temperatures. As the low dropped southeastward into the Carolinas, moisture wrapped around the backside of the low, bringing bands of snowfall across much of northeast and east-central Georgia. Snowfall totals were maximized where these bands occurred, reaching as high as 4-7 in many areas.

Given the narrow nature of these snow bands, areas just a few miles to the west (including much of metro Atlanta) saw very little snowfall, though windy and very cold conditions occurred areawide. Wind chills reached dangerously cold subzero levels across much of the area by the night of January 31 into the morning of February 1.