The first significant cold spell in Georgia occurred in the middle of October (Oct 14, 15, 16). Temperatures across most of North and Central Georgia fell into the 30s during that period. Most locations along and north of a line from Cedartown to Cumming to Cleveland recorded their first freeze of the 2006-2007 winter season...with a number of sites even dipping into the 20s. Across most of the rest of North and Central Georgia temperatures dipped into the 35 to 40 degree range. The next surge of cold air arrived on Oct 24, 25, and 26. This took temperatures below freezing for 90 percent of the area north of a line from Louisville to Macon to Carrollton...while the rest of North and Central Georgia saw readings dip into the middle 30s. Macon and Athens saw their first freeze of the season during this event.

In November... a large mass of cold air settled over the southeast states on the 3rd, 4th and 5th. Temperatures fell into the 20s across a large portion of North Georgia...and even into a few areas of Central Georgia.

In December... A large Arctic airmass settled into the deep south during the second weekend of the month (Dec 8-10), which plunged temperatures over all of North and Central Georgia in to the teens and lower 20s...except for some single digit readings in the mountains.

In January... The coldest weather occurred toward the end of the month... with an Arctic blast dropping temperatures to the coldest seen so far at a number of places. Lowest readings dipped generally into the teens to around 20...with single digits in the northeast mountains.

The map below shows the lowest reported temperatures so far this season. Moving your mouse curser over the map will give you station names and the dates of occurrence.

A more complete list of stations and data is available.

See the average dates of first autumn freeze.

Coldest temperatures from previous years:

• Winter 2005-2006 | Winter 2004-2005 | Winter 2003-2004 | Winter 2002-2003 | Winter 2001-2002

Coldest Reported Temperatures
Autumn / Winter 2006 - 2007
" # " Indicates the reading occurred sometime during the previous 24 hours