It’s officially fall now, but it doesn’t feel like it in Atlanta. The heat is expected to continue at least through the rest of this week, and likely longer. Same with the lack of rain.
Atlanta is on track to have one of its hottest years on record. For 13 days in a row earlier this month, temperatures topped 95 degrees — that’s another record.
And the dome of high pressure keeping temperatures high and the sky cleared of clouds does not look to be going anywhere, says Dylan Lusk, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Peachtree City.
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