Ice Storm in Georgia, January 23, 2000

A cold dome of arctic high pressure centered over the Mid-Atlantic States provided very cold and dry air to extreme northeast Georgia. Meanwhile, weak low pressure moved east along a frontal boundary stalled across the Gulf Coast States to the Georgia coast. Abundant moisture flowed north into the sub-freezing air over northeast Georgia, resulting in light snow as early as the the afternoon on the 22nd. Sleet mixed with the snow toward the evening hours, then changed to freezing rain by mid-evening. Two to 3 inches of snow and sleet fell across much of northeast Georgia - with a little less across Elbert county, before the changeover to freezing rain. Freezing rain lasted all night and through much of the morning on the 23rd. Ice accumulations reached damaging levels around 3 am, causing a large number of trees and power lines to fall throughout the morning. This in turn, resulted in widespread power outages.