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The mountains above 3,500 feet or parts of the Appalachian trail average 10-25 inches of snow in one season. The highest mountain in Georgia, Brasstown Bald, averages 30–40 inches of snow per season. Heavy snow in the extreme northern counties is considered 5 inches (13 cm) or more of snow in a 12-hour period or 7 inches (18 cm) or more of ...
In the area around Memphis, Tennessee and across the state of Mississippi, there are two rainfall maxima in the winter and spring. [44] [45] Across Georgia and South Carolina, the first of the annual precipitation maxima occurs in late winter, during February or March. [46] [47] Alabama has an annual rainfall maximum in winter or spring and a ...
The Appalachian temperate rainforest has a cool and mild climate and meets the criteria of temperate rainforests identified by Alaback. [1] Temperature and precipitation are extremely variable with elevation, with rainforest conditions usually but not always concentrated around spruce–fir forests at higher elevations.
Tennessee covers roughly 42,143 square miles (109,150 km 2), of which 926 square miles (2,400 km 2), or 2.2%, is water. It is the 16th smallest state in terms of land area. The state is about 440 miles (710 km) long from east to west and 112 miles (180 km) wide from north to south.
In Jacksonville, just south of the newly discovered Georgia mangroves, average winter temperatures have risen 3.4 degrees over the past half-century, according to the organization Climate Central.
Surface weather analysis of the 1898 Georgia hurricane on October 2. That hurricane was the strongest hurricane on record to hit the state and was the most recent major hurricane to strike Georgia. The list of Georgia hurricanes includes tropical or subtropical cyclones that have affected the U.S. state of Georgia.
Climate Central’s path of Tropical Storm Sara beginning Nov. 12. The map shows the location’s temperature was 84 degrees and the storm was made more likely by human caused climate change ...
In the state of Tennessee, one of the key effects of global warming seems to be the radical changes to the geological composition as well as wildlife health of the Ohio-Tennessee Basin. [1] Downtown Nashville flooded, 2010. In 2016, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reported that "Tennessee's climate is changing. Although ...