Billy Mountain, at 3,243 feet (988 m), and 3,250-foot (990 m) Elisha Mountain—both of which sit along the Eastern Continental Divide—rise less dramatically to the north.
The highest temperature during that period was 94 °F (34 °C) on July 2, 2012, which was the most recent day that the weather station recorded a reading in the 90s.
The Germany Valley station averages approximately 80 inches (2,000 mm) of rain a year.
2018 was especially wet, when the station measured 116.72 inches of precipitation, the second-most rainfall at a specific location in state history.
Germany Valley is drained by southwest-flowing Timpson Creek, which flows into the Timpson Cove arm of Lake Burton, the uppermost of five Georgia Power reservoirs on the Tallulah River, one of the northernmost watersheds in the Savannah River basin.