Summer officially begins at 7:09 p.m., and metro Atlanta's weather the rest of the week will feel like it, with highs climbing into the 90s by the weekend.
Channel 2 Action News meteorologist David Chandley is predicting highs of 89 on Wednesday and Thursday and 91 on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Overnight lows will be in the upper 6os to low 70s.
Atlanta's normal high for June 20 is 87 degrees, the normal low 69.
Chandley is forecasting mostly dry weather through the weekend, with only a 10 percent chance of a shower on Friday and again on Sunday.
While Atlanta hasn't had a high in the 90s so far this month, the mercury did break the 90 mark four times in late May, topping out at 93 on May 26. Last June, the high topped 90 degrees on all but four days.
The average date for Atlanta's first 90-degree reading is June 1, according to the National Weather Service.
The city's earliest 90-degree day was on April 23, 1980. That summer, the mercury hit the all-time high for Atlanta of 105 degrees.
The latest Atlanta has gone without a 90-degree day was in 1961, when the temperature didn't reach the 90s until July 28.
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