Light snow that fell across parts of northeast Georgia Tuesday morning has ended, a Georgia Department of Transportation spokeswoman said just before noon.
GDOT sent maintenance crews to plow and spread materials at the higher elevations of at least three state highways, but those operations had ended by late morning, GDOT spokeswoman Teri Pope said.
A winter weather advisory posted overnight for the far northern suburbs northward expired at 9 a.m., when the National Weather Service determined that no further accumulation was expected.
Pope said snow fell at the higher elevations of Lumpkin, Towns, Union and White counties at 8:45.
Pope said crews plowed snow and spread salt materials to provide additional traction on U.S. 19 over Blood Mountain in Union and Lumpkin counties, on Ga. 180 near Suches and on U.S. 129 near the North Carolina state line.
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Forecasters had warned of a risk of patchy black ice Monday night and early Tuesday as far south as Atlanta, but no icing was reported on metro roadways.
The Weather Service issued the winter weather advisory for occasional periods of light snow as far south as Cherokee, Bartow and Polk counties.
Temperatures across metro Atlanta were at or just above the freezing mark before daybreak. At 6 a.m., temperatures were 32 degrees in Peachtree City, 33 in Marietta, Alpharetta, Dunwoody and at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, and 34 in Chamblee.
In the mountain counties, Blairsville and Blue Ridge reported 29 degrees at 6 a.m., but to the west in Dalton, it was 34.
By late morning, temperatures had climbed into the mid-40s across metro Atlanta and mid-30s in the mountains.
School officials in Union and Towns counties delayed the start of classes for two hours Tuesday.
Channel 2 meteorologist Karen Minton said temperatures across metro Atlanta will climb to around 50 degrees under partly cloudy skies Tuesday afternoon.
Wednesday will be sunny, with morning lows in the upper 20s and afternoon highs in the low 50s.
There’s a 20 percent chance of rain on Thursday, when lows in the mid-30s will be followed by highs in the mid-50s, Minton said.
Friday and Saturday should be mostly sunny, with highs in the low 50s and lows in the 30s.
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