After a few early morning showers and storms, skies over metro Atlanta are expected to begin clearing Friday afternoon, leaving great weather for the Easter weekend.
The scattered showers and thunderstorms that rumbled across metro Atlanta early Friday had moved into the Athens area by daybreak, Channel 2 Action News meteorologist Karen Minton said. By late morning, most of the rain had moved into South Carolina.
Minton’s weekend forecast calls for mostly sunny skies on Saturday, with morning lows around 60 degrees and afternoon highs in the low to mid-80s.
Easter Sunday will begin with temperatures in the 60s around sunrise, which will be at 6:57 a.m. Afternoon readings will be in the mid-80s under mostly sunny skies.
The dry forecast means that several ongoing interstate construction projects will be in full swing, including the repaving of I-75 through parts in Cobb and Fulton counties.
There will be multiple lane closures in both directions on I-75 between Cumberland Boulevard and the Techwood/16th Street/14th Street exit, beginning at 8 p.m. Friday and continuing through 5 a.m. on Monday.
Several entrance and exit ramps along that stretch of I-75 will also be shut down throughout the weekend. Those closures include the northbound ramp to West Paces Ferry Road, the northbound and southbound ramps to Northside Drive, the ramp from I-75 southbound to I-85 northbound and the ramp from I-85 southbound to I-75 northbound.
Other ongoing construction will shut down the two left lanes of I-20 eastbound and westbound west of town, between Thornton Road and Riverside Parkway, from Friday night through early Monday.
In DeKalb County, Express Lane construction will shut down a couple of lanes of I-85 in both directions between Clairmont and Chamblee Tucker roads throughout the weekend.
Major events downtown this weekend include Hawks playoff games on Friday and Sunday nights at Philips Arena.
On Saturday, the Monster Energy Dub Show concert and car show is expected to draw as many as 15,000 people to the Georgia World Congress Center between 3 and 9 p.m.
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