Atlanta has a national reputation for being quite hot,
Thus its nickname – “Hot” Lanta.
But by south peninsula standards it becomes quite cool in non-summer months.
The metric I look at is the 60 degree line.
Here in Florida we use it – or rather, when average night-time low temperatures drop below it – to mark the beginning of fall.
Atlanta typically drops below that mark by mid September.
This year hotter weather lingered longer there, into the start of October.
But that’s splitting hairs:
A month later at the start of November, Atlantans are confronted with the brisk reality of sub-70 degree days and night-time lows dipping into the 40s.
That’s not only equivalent of our coldest of cold winter days in Naples,
It’s also looking way too far ahead:
Fall has yet to arrive by the 60 degree standard!
