A good dose of weekend rain across metro-Atlanta will prevent the area from setting a new mark for driest year in the record books. Showers fell long enough across the area to total about 1.3 inches on Sunday-—pushing the rain total for the year to 31.85 inches. That is about a half-inch more than the mark from the year 1954, which will still stand as the driest on record for Atlanta. However, even with rain across the Atlanta-area in 10 of the past 12 days, the National Weather Service says it has had minimal effect on replenishing Lake Lanier. The latest record low for Lanier came last Wednesday. Since that time, the lake’s level has only risen less than an inch.
