Temperatures across the South are headed, well, south. But just when exactly does the chill warrant a warm sweater?
The Weather Channel asked basically that question in a September 2015 survey.
"What exactly is considered sweater weather?" the site wondered, posing 6,586 people the same question: At what temperature do they cover up with a sweater?
In Georgia, the median answer was also the most common nationwide: 60 degrees — which, judging by some historic weather data, don't regularly arrive as a daylight temperature in Atlanta until November.
(The Weather Channel survey did not break out the number of specific respondents in Georgia.)
That sweater weather is cooler still than the answers of those in the Southwest: Arizonans consider "sweater weather" at 65 degrees.
But the coldest answers were found in the upper Midwest. Residents of South Dakota don't bundle up until it hits 51 degrees.
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