The weather in Statesboro this winter has been unpredictable for many at Georgia Southern University and in the Statesboro area.

The mornings are cold, with an average of 55 degrees followed by warm afternoons and freezing nights with a drop of 21 degrees.

S. Jeffrey Underwood, Ph.D in geography with a concentration in climatology, who is also the only climatologist and meteorologist on campus, said that this is typical Southeastern weather and it’s very common for winter weather to vary from warm days to cooler days.

“We are still going to have a brief passage of cool air,” Underwood said. “Most of this is created by the Pacific Ocean’s La Nina situation.”

The strangest thing to Underwood is that the air doesn’t have enough precipitation.

“(The) daily temperature change is because of the low moisture in air,” Mark Welford, Ph.D in geography and a geography professor at GSU, said.

A cloudless day is going to be warm, but the problem comes when the tropical air arrives, Welford said.

“What we are witnessing right now is the cool Canadian air,” Welford said, “but the warm air form south really brings humidity, moisture and many allergies.”

Right now, Statesboro is in the coolest part of the winter. The area is beginning to have a drought because of a very dry winter and there is a possibility that the drought is associated with global warming. To be sure that the problem is global warming, studies would have to be done on the statistics, patterns and trends, Welford said.

The change in weather has certainly confused students, senior biology major Jessica Cain said.

“I hope it decides what it’s going to do because it confuses me on whether I should wear T-shirt, jacket or boots,” Cain said.

“Hopefully it will get cooler,” junior geology major Brady Hazt said. “ (I) don’t feel like we had a winter this year.”

“I have to check the weather before I go out, because you don’t know Statesboro weather,” freshman pre-exercise major, Jerome Lewis, Jr., said.

Freshman undeclared Jamerson Jackson said, “This weather makes me cough a lot. I am more likely to be sick, because I wasn’t prepared for the sudden weather change. It makes my head hurt and I got a lot of allergies.”