North Georgia is settling in for a soggy couple of days.
An area of low pressure has parked itself to the west and will be sending round after round of heavy downpours across the region, according to Channel 2 Action News meteorologist Brian Monahan. Rain chances are hovering around 80% Monday and Tuesday and dropping just slightly for Wednesday, when Monahan expects more sunshine to mix in with the showers.
“With that low to our west, it just scoops that tropical moisture in our direction with periods of downpours and a few storms in your Monday forecast,” he said. “That will impact your Monday morning commute, and it will also impact your evening commute.”
The rain has already started falling Monday morning in parts of northwest Georgia. The showers are passing from west to east and are likely to move over the same areas “over and over and over again,” he said.
By the middle of the week, all that rainfall could amount to up to 2 inches of rain, with 4 inches possible in some neighborhoods, according to Channel 2. Since June 1, Atlanta has recorded about 2 inches above average rainfall.
“Wednesday is still a little wet, but I do think we’ll be able to mix in a little more sunshine by the middle of the week,” Monahan said. “But Thursday and Friday should look a lot better for you.”
The benefit of all this wet weather is lower temperatures. Instead of highs near 90 degrees, which are typical of this time of year, North Georgia will enjoy more comfortable daily highs in the upper 70s and low 80s, according to the latest forecast. Monday’s projected high is 79 degrees.
Credit: Channel 2 Action News
Credit: Channel 2 Action News
There are no major delays on metro Atlanta interstates as the Monday morning drive gets underway, but commuters out of the western suburbs might still want to avoid I-20, according to the WSB 24-hour Traffic Center.
More than a dozen vehicles are pulled off to the side of the interstate with flat tires at Fulton Industrial Boulevard. There appears to be some sort of debris in the road, traffic reporter Mark Arum said.
“Why risk a flat tire on a Monday morning?” he said. “Go ahead and use Veterans Memorial Highway (U.S. 78). Take that as an alternate to the Westside Perimeter.”
Elsewhere, the ride is an easy one, the Traffic Center reported. Commuters should watch for delays to build as showers continue across the area Monday.
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