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Jan 11, 2011 at 12:41 AM EDT
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Georgia's state climatologist says it's unusual for a winter storm to bring ice and snow as far south as Macon.
ATHENS, Ga. (AP) - Georgia's state climatologist says it's unusual for a winter storm to bring ice and snow as far south as Macon.
The winter storm that smothered Macon's roads with slush Monday left little snow accumulation in middle Georgia. But snowfall has piled up in the middle Georgia city before.
University of Georgia professor David Stooksbury, who serves as the state's climate expert, said Monday the scope of the latest blast of winter weather reminds him of a snowstorm that hit Georgia in 1982.
That storm 29 years ago left Macon under 5.5 inches of snow. The middle Georgia city also got 1.2 inches of snow on Christmas Eve in 1993.
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