September Weather at Middle Georgia Regional Airport United StatesDaily high temperatures decrease by 7°F, from 89°F to 81°F, rarely falling below 72°F or exceeding 95°F. Daily low temperatures decrease by 9°F, from 69°F to 60°F, rarely falling below 49°F or exceeding 74°F. For reference, on July 22, the hottest day of the year, temperatures at Middle Georgia Regional Airport typically range from 72°F to 92°F, while on January 17, the coldest day of the year, they range from 37°F to 58°F. The figure below shows you a compact characterization of the hourly average temperatures for the quarter of the year centered on September. The horizontal axis is the day, the vertical axis is the hour of the day, and the color is the average temperature for that hour and day. CloudsThe month of September at Middle Georgia Regional Airport experiences gradually decreasing cloud cover, with the percentage of time that the sky is overcast or mostly cloudy decreasing from 40% to 36%. The clearest day of the month is September 22, with clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy conditions 65% of the time. For reference, on January 4, the cloudiest day of the year, the chance of overcast or mostly cloudy conditions is 50%, while on October 26, the clearest day of the year, the chance of clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy skies is 67%. PrecipitationA wet day is one with at least 0.04 inches of liquid or liquid-equivalent precipitation. At Middle Georgia Regional Airport, the chance of a wet day over the course of September is very rapidly decreasing, starting the month at 34% and ending it at 22%. For reference, the year's highest daily chance of a wet day is 45% on July 7, and its lowest chance is 16% on October 29. RainfallTo show variation within the month and not just the monthly total, we show the rainfall accumulated over a sliding 31-day period centered around each day. The average sliding 31-day rainfall during September at Middle Georgia Regional Airport is gradually decreasing, starting the month at 3.1 inches, when it rarely exceeds 5.6 inches or falls below 1.1 inches, and ending the month at 2.7 inches, when it rarely exceeds 5.1 inches or falls below 0.6 inches. SunOver the course of September at Middle Georgia Regional Airport, the length of the day is decreasing. From the start to the end of the month, the length of the day decreases by 57 minutes, implying an average daily decrease of 1 minute, 59 seconds, and weekly decrease of 13 minutes, 51 seconds. The shortest day of the month is September 30, with 11 hours, 51 minutes of daylight and the longest day is September 1, with 12 hours, 49 minutes of daylight. The earliest sunrise of the month at Middle Georgia Regional Airport is 7:09 AM on September 1 and the latest sunrise is 19 minutes later at 7:28 AM on September 30. The latest sunset is 7:58 PM on September 1 and the earliest sunset is 39 minutes earlier at 7:19 PM on September 30. Daylight saving time is observed at Middle Georgia Regional Airport during 2024, but it neither starts nor ends during September, so the entire month is in standard time. For reference, on June 20, the longest day of the year, the Sun rises at 6:27 AM and sets 14 hours, 18 minutes later, at 8:45 PM, while on December 21, the shortest day of the year, it rises at 7:33 AM and sets 10 hours, 0 minutes later, at 5:32 PM. The figure below presents a compact representation of the sun's elevation (the angle of the sun above the horizon) and azimuth (its compass bearing) for every hour of every day in the reporting period. The horizontal axis is the day of the year and the vertical axis is the hour of the day. For a given day and hour of that day, the background color indicates the azimuth of the sun at that moment. The black isolines are contours of constant solar elevation. MoonThe figure below presents a compact representation of key lunar data for September 2024. The horizontal axis is the day, the vertical axis is the hour of the day, and the colored areas indicate when the moon is above the horizon. The vertical gray bars (new Moons) and blue bars (full Moons) indicate key Moon phases. The label associated with each bar indicates the date and time that the phase is obtained, and the companion time labels indicate the rise and set times of the Moon for the nearest time interval in which the moon is above the horizon.
HumidityWe base the humidity comfort level on the dew point, as it determines whether perspiration will evaporate from the skin, thereby cooling the body. Lower dew points feel drier and higher dew points feel more humid. Unlike temperature, which typically varies significantly between night and day, dew point tends to change more slowly, so while the temperature may drop at night, a muggy day is typically followed by a muggy night. The chance that a given day will be muggy at Middle Georgia Regional Airport is very rapidly decreasing during September, falling from 79% to 34% over the course of the month. For reference, on July 24, the muggiest day of the year, there are muggy conditions 93% of the time, while on January 24, the least muggy day of the year, there are muggy conditions 0% of the time. WindThis section discusses the wide-area hourly average wind vector (speed and direction) at 10 meters above the ground. The wind experienced at any given location is highly dependent on local topography and other factors, and instantaneous wind speed and direction vary more widely than hourly averages. The average hourly wind speed at Middle Georgia Regional Airport is gradually increasing during September, increasing from 4.6 miles per hour to 5.3 miles per hour over the course of the month. For reference, on March 7, the windiest day of the year, the daily average wind speed is 6.6 miles per hour, while on August 7, the calmest day of the year, the daily average wind speed is 4.3 miles per hour. The hourly average wind direction at Middle Georgia Regional Airport throughout September is predominantly from the east, with a peak proportion of 45% on September 7. Growing SeasonDefinitions of the growing season vary throughout the world, but for the purposes of this report, we define it as the longest continuous period of non-freezing temperatures (≥ 32°F) in the year (the calendar year in the Northern Hemisphere, or from July 1 until June 30 in the Southern Hemisphere). The growing season at Middle Georgia Regional Airport typically lasts for 8.0 months (244 days), from around March 16 to around November 14, rarely starting before February 20 or after April 7, and rarely ending before October 23 or after December 11. The month of September at Middle Georgia Regional Airport is reliably fully within the growing season. Growing degree days are a measure of yearly heat accumulation used to predict plant and animal development, and defined as the integral of warmth above a base temperature, discarding any excess above a maximum temperature. In this report, we use a base of 50°F and a cap of 86°F. The average accumulated growing degree days at Middle Georgia Regional Airport are rapidly increasing during September, increasing by 691°F, from 4,273°F to 4,964°F, over the course of the month. Solar EnergyThis section discusses the total daily incident shortwave solar energy reaching the surface of the ground over a wide area, taking full account of seasonal variations in the length of the day, the elevation of the Sun above the horizon, and absorption by clouds and other atmospheric constituents. Shortwave radiation includes visible light and ultraviolet radiation. The average daily incident shortwave solar energy at Middle Georgia Regional Airport is gradually decreasing during September, falling by 0.7 kWh, from 5.7 kWh to 5.0 kWh, over the course of the month. TopographyFor the purposes of this report, the geographical coordinates of Middle Georgia Regional Airport are 32.696 deg latitude, -83.642 deg longitude, and 351 ft elevation. The topography within 2 miles of Middle Georgia Regional Airport contains only modest variations in elevation, with a maximum elevation change of 135 feet and an average elevation above sea level of 321 feet. Within 10 miles also contains only modest variations in elevation (354 feet). Within 50 miles contains only modest variations in elevation (1,132 feet). The area within 2 miles of Middle Georgia Regional Airport is covered by artificial surfaces (46%), cropland (29%), trees (14%), and herbaceous vegetation (12%), within 10 miles by artificial surfaces (37%) and trees (33%), and within 50 miles by trees (65%) and cropland (22%). Data SourcesThis report illustrates the typical weather at Middle Georgia Regional Airport, based on a statistical analysis of historical hourly weather reports and model reconstructions from January 1, 1980 to December 31, 2016. Temperature and Dew PointMiddle Georgia Regional Airport has a weather station that reported reliably enough during the analysis period that we have included it in our network. When available, historical temperature and dew point measurements are taken directly from this weather station. These records are obtained from NOAA's Integrated Surface Hourly data set, falling back on ICAO METAR records as required. In the case of missing or erroneous measurements from this station, we fall back on records from nearby stations, adjusted according to typical seasonal and diurnal intra-station differences. For a given day of the year and hour of the day, the fallback station is selected to minimize the prediction error over the years for which there are measurements for both stations. The stations on which we may fall back include but are not limited to Robins Air Force Base; Baldwin County Airport; Thomaston, Thomaston-Upson County Airport; W. H. 'Bud' Barron Airport; Heart of Georgia Regional Airport; Greene County Regional Airport; Atlanta Regional Airport; and Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. Other DataAll data relating to the Sun's position (e.g., sunrise and sunset) are computed using astronomical formulas from the book, Astronomical Algorithms 2nd Edition , by Jean Meeus. All other weather data, including cloud cover, precipitation, wind speed and direction, and solar flux, come from NASA's MERRA-2 Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis . This reanalysis combines a variety of wide-area measurements in a state-of-the-art global meteorological model to reconstruct the hourly history of weather throughout the world on a 50-kilometer grid. Land Use data comes from the Global Land Cover SHARE database , published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Elevation data comes from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) , published by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. 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