Finally, a dry weekend.
After seven straight weekends with rain on either Saturday or Sunday or both days, forecasters are predicting dry weather straight through the weekend and into the middle part of next week.
It’s even a three-day weekend for some, with Monday’s Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.
Channel 2 meteorologist Karen Minton said the weekend will begin sunny but chilly, with lows early Saturday in the low 20s, followed by afternoon highs in the low 40s.
Sunday and Monday will be continued sunny, with highs in the upper 40s Sunday and around 60 degrees Monday and lows in the low 30s.
Tuesday should also be sunny but cooler, with highs in the mid-40s.
Atlanta’s normal high for mid-January is 52, the normal low 34.
This weekend’s chilly forecast shouldn’t hinder planned roadwork around metro Atlanta, but the good news, according to the state Department of Transportation, is that the majority of the work will take place during the overnight hours.
There are, however, a few daytime lane closures planned.
According to DOT spokesman Mark McKinnon, brief traffic pacing will occur on I-20 in both directions in Douglas County, between Ga. 5 and Liberty Road, for survey work. The pacing will take place between 7 a.m. and 5 p.m. daily.
Sign work on I-85 will shut down two left lanes in both directions nightly between Clairmont and Lenox roads.
McKinnon said there will be various single-lane closures around the Ga. 400/I-85 interchange, with some of the closures during the day and some at night.
In that same area, one southbound lane of the Buford-Spring Connector will be closed nightly for bridge replacement.
In Henry County, road striping will block a northbound lane of I-75 at Hudson Bridge Road from 9 a.m. Sunday through 5 a.m. Monday.
Traffic downtown will be congested by the Passion 2014 religious conference being held Friday and Saturday at Philips Arena, the A-Town Showdown dance competition Friday through Monday at the Georgia World Congress Center and King holiday events on Monday.
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