The remnants of Tropical Storm Beryl continued to churn across South Georgia on Tuesday, drenching the southern part of the state and bringing scattered showers to metro Atlanta.
"Most of the rain has now exited southeast Georgia as the ill-defined center of circulation is moving just north of Savannah," Channel 2 Action News Chief Meteorologist Glenn Burns told the AJC Tuesday night.
The storm was expected to dump as much as 5 to 10 inches of rain, with isolated amounts of 15 inches, on southeast Georgia and adjacent northern Florida.
"A lot of dry air poured into the western flank of the storm today, so areas still in extreme to exceptional drought did not see the widespread heavy rains they had hoped for," he said. "The remnant low will move toward the outer banks of North Carolina by tomorrow afternoon and then out to sea."
The storm, with sustained winds of 25 mph, was expected to be back over the Atlantic by late Wednesday.
Burns is calling for a 20 percent chance of scattered showers and thunderstorms Tuesday night, then partly sunny skies until a 60 percent chance of rain returns Friday.
Highs will be in the low 90s on Wednesday and upper 80s on Thursday.
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