The cold front responsible for Monday night's storms brought freezing temperatures to parts of north Georgia early Wednesday, as the mercury dipped to 32 degrees as far south as metro Atlanta.
A frost advisory was posted until 9 a.m. for areas of the state as far south as Dublin.
Sub-freezing readings around daybreak included 28 degrees in Blairsville, 30 in Canton and 31 in Cartersville and Peachtree City. Elsewhere across metro Atlanta, morning lows ranged from 33 in Alpharetta to 39 degrees at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport.
Atlanta's normal low for April 6 is 48 degrees, the normal high 71. Channel 2 Action News meteorologist Karen Minton said Wednesday's afternoon high should be close to normal, topping out in the upper 60s. Highs will be in the 70s Thursday and Friday before warming into the 80s over the weekend, Minton said.
The frigid temperatures made for an uncomfortable night for tens of thousands of people still without power early Wednesday.
Terri Statham, a spokeswoman for Georgia Electrical Membership Corporation, said 57,000 EMC customers -- including 10,000 in metro Atlanta -- remained in the dark at 4:30 a.m. Wednesday. That's down from 64,000 at 9 p.m. Tuesday, she said.
Georgia Power officials reported 33,700 of their customers were still without power at 6 a.m. Wednesday, with 12,500 of those outages in metro Atlanta.
The National Weather Service has confirmed that storm damage near Eastman in Dodge County early Tuesday that left one person dead and two others injured was caused by a tornado. The EF-2 tornado, with winds estimated at 130 mph, was on the ground for about three miles.
That death was one of seven in the state, including a man killed in northwest Atlanta when a huge tree fell and crushed his car around 8 a.m. Tuesday.
Also killed was an an Irwin County man who died when a tree crashed into his Ocilla home early Tuesday. Two people died in Butts County, and two others were killed by falling trees in Colquitt County.
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