Atlanta weather | Rain, but no storms to start the week
The storm system that caused the deadly tornado outbreak in the Midwest this weekend will bring rain but no severe weather to start off your week, according to Channel 2 Action News meteorologist Brad Nitz.
Sunday was mostly cloudly and mild with a high of around 80 and a low of 57. Scattered showers and storms will move in Monday afternoon and rain chances will increase through Tuesday, Nitz said. Expect partly cloudy and warm weather Monday with a high of about 80 and a low of 62.
The chance of showers and storms in the afternoon and evening will continue Tuesday with a high around 74 and a low of 62.
"After a cold front, dry weather will return Wednesday and stay with us through the end of the week," Nitz said.
On Saturday, one tornado killed five people, including three children, and injured more than two dozen in Woodward, a town about 140 miles northwest of Oklahoma City. But it was the only tornado that caused fatalities. Many of the dozens of touchdowns that forecasters had warned residents about raked harmlessly across isolated stretches of rural Kansas, and though communities there and in Iowa were hit, residents and officials credited days of urgent warnings from forecasters for saving lives.
Associated Press contributed to this report.
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