This has been a crazy week for weather in the Southeast, and especially in Georgia where we saw inches of rain, record warm conditions, and this morning, snow in northern parts of the state (including just less than an inch at my house in Athens). What is going on with this roller-coaster weather? Dr. Marshall Shepherd of UGA’s Geography Department offers a look at how these different weather phenomena are related in this article in Forbes.com here.

Source: https://www.forestwander.com/2009/12/gristmill-winter-snowfall-front/ via Commons Wikimedia