Thursday’s wake-up temperatures weren’t quite as cold as on Wednesday morning, but forecasters said a reinforcing blast of Arctic air will push the mercury into the low teens or lower again by early Friday.
All of metro Atlanta is under a wind chill advisory for dangerously low sub-zero wind chills Thursday night.
That advisory, through 10 a.m. Friday along and north of a line from LaGrange to Gainesville, is calling for wind chills as low as -10 degrees.
Channel 2 meteorologist Karen Minton Thursday afternoon reminded pet owners to “bring the pets inside tonight. They do not want to be out there; it is dangerously cold.”
The cold weather prompted five north Georgia counties to delay the start of school by two hours Friday morning. Chattooga, Habersham, Murray, Rabun and White county schools announced the two-hour delays late Thursday.
Minton said lows by early Friday will be around 12 degrees in the city, and highs Friday will only be around the freezing mark.
Minton’s forecast for the weekend calls for sunny skies and warmer afternoon temperatures. Saturday’s morning lows around 20 will be followed by highs in the upper 40s, and on Sunday, the mercury should reach the low 50s after starting out in the upper 20s.
Temperatures across metro Atlanta at 6 a.m. Thursday ranged from 19 in Peachtree City, 21 in Marietta and 22 in Dunwoody to 25 at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport.
Atlanta’s normal low for the date is 34, the normal high 53.
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