(CNN) It's been more than 750 days since the city of Atlanta officially recorded measurable snow. That streak is appearing to hold, despite more than an inch falling in northern suburbs and a good bit more in the Georgia mountains above them.

Snow fell Saturday morning in downtown and in parts of the Georgia capital's northern and eastern suburbs. At least an inch was reported on roads in Roswell.

Farther north, Gainesville received 4 inches and Dahlonega notched about 6.

But the last time the city got snow was back on January 18, 2018, making its absence the eighth-longest streak in National Weather Service climate records.

if Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport would have picked up at least 0.1 inches of snow, the record would have been broken Saturday. But that did not happen, because not enough of the precipitation stuck and accumulated.

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