Shown below you can see that the average of August temperatures in the past ten years has been much warmer than normal, while the five year average was for August to be just a little warmer than normal. Rainfall for both the past five and ten years has averaged near-normal to a little bit above-normal:

Here are the model (North American and International) consensus forecast maps for August and August-September-October temperature and rainfall AVERAGES (not every day or every week):

I favor the National Models for August and the International Model consensus for August-October, although there’s not a big difference between the two numerical variant groups for August.

THE MONTH OF JULY was DRIER than normal and WARMER than normal in Metro Atlanta as you can see:

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