Overnight winds gusting to 45 mph brought down a few trees across metro Atlanta, knocking out power to several hundred homes.
One of the toppled trees sliced into an apartment building on Clara Drive in Roswell Wednesday, but no injuries were reported.
By 6:30 a.m. Thursday, Georgia Power crews had reduced the number of metro customers in the dark from around 1,400 to only a dozen or so, with about 200 customers statewide without electricity.
Those brisk winds pushed much colder temperatures into the state, with lows approaching the freezing mark across much of metro Atlanta.
Temperatures at 7 a.m. included 32 in Canton, Alpharetta, Dunwoody and Dallas, 34 in Chamblee and Marietta and 35 at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. Those readings were about 25 degrees colder than Wednesday’s morning lows.
Channel 2 meteorologist Karen Minton said temperatures will remain below normal Thursday afternoon, topping out in the low 50s before dipping back into the mid-30s Thursday night.
Friday should be sunny and warmer, Minton said, with highs in the mid-60s.
The weekend could be a rainy one, with a 40 percent chance of rain Saturday increasing to 70 percent Sunday.
Minton said weekend highs will be in the mid-60s, with morning lows in the upper 40s.
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