Will this be Middle Georgia’s coldest Christmas? Nope, but our forecast packs a frosty feel
It will not be our coldest Christmas, but subfreezing temperatures across the region this weekend will no doubt hearken back to the bitter chill that nipped these parts in 1983.
That holiday season four decades yon packed an icy punch not unlike the frigid forecast for this year.
An arctic blast that surged into the Deep South at week’s end was expected send the mercury plunging into the low teens across Middle Georgia on Friday night and whip up wind chills as low as -1 degree.
The forecast-low for the Macon area on Christmas Eve was 19 degrees.
A Christmas Day high of 39 was expected to be followed by an overnight chill back into the upper teens.
Those temperatures, however, won’t pack the frosty bite of the Christmas of ’83, also on a Sunday, when the record low for that day set: 7 degrees.
The high temperature that day was 25, which is still the most frigid high temperature on record for Christmas.
