If April showers really do bring May flowers, next month should be a blooming spectacle after all the rain forecast for this week.
Forecasters are predicting a chance of rain every day of the upcoming work week.
Channel 2 meteorologist Brian Monahan said the chance of rain is 80 percent Monday, diminishing to 40 percent Tuesday and 30 percent Wednesday and Thursday.
The chance of rain goes back up to 50 percent on Friday, with a risk of rain also forecast for next weekend.
There will also be a chance of thunderstorms each day this week, the National Weather Service said.
Monahan said highs will be in the upper 60s Monday, upper 70s Tuesday and low 80s Wednesday and Thursday. Morning lows will be in the low 50s Monday, upper 50s Tuesday and low 60s Wednesday and Thursday.
Atlanta’s normal high for the first week of April is 70, and the normal low is 49.
Winds gusting to around 30 mph Sunday morning forced officials at Stone Mountain Park to halt operation of the Summit Skyride to the top of the mountain for Easter sunrise services. A few hundred worshipers made it to the mountaintop before the ride was stopped, and a second sunrise service was held on the Memorial Lawn at the base of the mountain.
Those brisk winds were also possibly responsible for toppling a huge tree onto a northwest Atlanta home Sunday morning.
According to Atlanta police, a woman suffered a broken leg when the tree crashed into a bedroom of the house on Greystone Road off Collier Road. The woman, whose name has not been released, was alert and conscious when taken to an area hospital, police spokeswoman Kim Jones said.
The Weather Service determined Saturday that a weak tornado touched down Friday night in northwest Georgia’s Dade County.
No injuries were reported as the EF1 tornado with winds of about 90 mph left a 560-foot path of downed trees and limbs near the town of Rising Fawn just after 10 p.m. Friday. Some houses along the path had roof shingles blown off and damage to siding, emergency management officials said.
Allergy sufferers got a little relief Sunday, as Atlanta’s pollen count dropped to 1,859 from Saturday’s count of 5,987 particles of pollen per cubic meter of air.
Last year’s highest count was 4,054 on April 11, according to Atlanta Allergy & Asthma, the clinic that monitors the city’s pollen count. The record count of 8,164 was set on March 19, 2012.
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