The patchy fog that dropped visibility to a quarter-mile at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport early Tuesday lifted later in the morning, but the risk of rain will linger into the weekend, forecasters said.
A dense fog advisory issued by the National Weather Service just before 8 a.m. expired at 10 a.m.
The fog was patchy, with visibility at 8 a.m. ranging from .13 mile in Marietta to 2 miles in Chamblee and 5 miles in Peachtree City. The Federal Aviation Administration at 9:15 a.m. reported departure delays of 15 to 30 minutes for flights out of Atlanta because of the fog, but no delays were reported just at 11 a.m., when visibility had improved to 7 miles.
Channel 2 meteorologist Karen Minton is forecasting a 30 percent chance of rain for Tuesday, but any thunderstorms that develop should remain below severe levels.
The chance of rain is 20 percent Wednesday and 30 percent Thursday before climbing to 70 percent on Friday, Minton said. The weekend will begin with a 30 percent chance of rain on Saturday, she said.
Temperatures will be unseasonably warm, with afternoon readings reaching the low 80s through Thursday and mid-70s Friday and Saturday. Lows will be in the low to mid-60s.
Atlanta’s normal high for early April is 71, the normal low 49.
Showers that moved across metro Atlanta Monday night dumped as much as 1.23 inches of rain near Mableton and 1.14 inches just west of downtown Atlanta. Other overnight rainfall totals ranged from .32 inch in Dunwoody, .40 inch in Chamblee and .51 inch in Marietta to .55 inch in Alpharetta, .61 inch at the airport and .76 inch in Dallas.
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