2019 was Atlanta’s warmest on record.
Every month except for November was warmer than average this year, but what really pushed 2019 over the edge, in terms of temperature, was a late summer heatwave, said Bill Murphey, state climatologist for the Georgia Environmental Protection Division.
“The main culprit was September,” he said. “September, if you just look at Atlanta, it averaged about nine degrees above normal for the whole month.”
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