There’s an interesting phenomenon that happens in Athens. If you’ve lived here for a while, you might have noticed it. We’ll be looking at the weather radar, see a big storm west of us, moving through Atlanta, and then when it gets close to Athens … nothing. The storm skirts around us somehow.
So is this a thing? Turns out, it is. Here to explain is Dr. John Knox, a professor of geography at the University of Georgia who studies atmospheric dynamics.