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NOUS42 KFFC 172018 CCA
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PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT...CORRECTED DATE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
630 PM EDT FRI SEP 16 2005

...STRETCH OF CONSECUTIVE RAINLESS DAYS FOR ATLANTA COMES TO AN END 
AT 16 DAYS...

BETWEEN 430 PM EDT AND 530 PM EDT TODAY...0.01 INCH OF RAIN FELL AT 
ATLANTA'S HARTSFIELD-JACKSON INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT...BRINGING THE 
STRING OF CONSECUTIVE RAINLESS DAYS TO AN END.  THIS WAS ALSO THE 
FIRST MEASURABLE RAINFALL RECORDED THIS MONTH. THE STRETCH OF 16 
CONSECUTIVE RAINLESS DAYS STILL STANDS AS THE LONGEST SUCH STRETCH 
THIS YEAR AND THE LONGEST STRETCH RECORDED AT THE AIRPORT SINCE THE 
FALL OF 2001...WHEN A STRETCH OF 28 CONSECUTIVE DAYS WITHOUT RAIN 
OCCURRED BETWEEN OCTOBER 26TH AND NOVEMBER 23RD OF 2001.

DESPITE THE END OF THE STRETCH OF CONSECUTIVE RAINLESS DAYS...THIS 
SEPTEMBER STILL STANDS AS ONE OF THE DRIEST ON RECORD...AND 
CERTAINLY THE DRIEST SO FAR SINCE 1984.  LITTLE TO NO RAIN IS 
EXPECTED DURING THE NEXT SEVEN DAYS.  BELOW IS A LIST OF THE TOP TEN 
DRIEST SEPTEMBERS ON RECORD AT THE AIRPORT.

1984 0.04 INCH
1884 0.08 INCH
1897 0.14 INCH
1895 0.21 INCH
1925 0.24 INCH
1954 0.26 INCH
1986 0.53 INCH
1923 0.54 INCH
1904 0.56 INCH
1927 0.69 INCH

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