Winter Weather in Wilkes, Georgia

Winter Weather January 7, 2017 · Wilkes, Georgia

What the National Weather Service wrote

A COOP observer near Washington reported a dusting, around a quarter on an inch, of snow.

The wider storm

During the afternoon of January 6th through the morning of January 7th a fast moving but strong storm system swept across the southeastern U.S. A cold airmass across north and central Georgia combined with rich moisture drawn north from the Gulf of Mexico to produce a mixture of rain, sleet, freezing rain and snow across north and portions of central Georgia.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 668220. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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