The long-term average is just 2 inches of snow falling on an average of one day in January and one day in February. In the winter of 1968 it snowed on seven days.
The most snow in one day officially in Atlanta was 8.3 inches on January 23, 1940. Atlanta has wide variations of Winters some are really warm and dry, some are warm and wet, and a few are cold and snowy. Some are even warm and snowy (Yes it is possible to have above average snowfall in a winter and also have an overall warmer than average winter). In December 2017 The NW suburbs and areas west of Atlanta got 6-12 inches while the city got 2.3 and the East and Southeast suburbs got little to no snow. 7 out of the past 20 winters ( 35% have been colder than normal, 13 of the past 20 (65%) have been warmer than normal. BELOW is a look at the averages and snowfall totals year by year 2000-2018!
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