Look for clearer skies and cooler temperatures for the metro Atlanta area today.
Partly cloudy skies will keep the temperatures from getting much above 70 degrees, said Glenn Burns, chief meteorologist for Channel 2 Action News.
“Dry air will come into the area for the next several days,” Burns said.
The weekend weather is expected to be extremely pleasant with highs in the 70s and 80s.
That’s in contrast to the stormy weather the area has endured this week.
One person died as a result of the high winds and heavy rains that toppled trees and knocked out power for thousands of Georgians.
An Athens man was killed Wednesday morning when a tree fell on the car he was driving, Athens-Clarke County police told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
The man was in his vehicle in the Pinewood mobile home park at 1495 Ga. 29 around 7:20 a.m. when the tree toppled, police said.
Pedro Gorosquieta, a 36-year-old father of five, had driven only a few feet from his home when the tree crushed his vehicle, Channel 2 Action News reported.
In Forest Park, Anakaren Munoz and her family were awakened by a tree that fell on the roof of their home.
“I thought it was a tornado or something when it crashed in the house,” the 9-year-old Munoz told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
No one was hurt, and the family has moved to her aunt’s home just two doors down, she said.
The tree fell from the yard of next-door-neighbor Stanley Williams.
He said it hit the Munoz home about 5:30 a.m.
“It’s probably totaled,” Williams said of his neighbor’s home. “I don’t think they can fix that.”
—Staff writers John Spink and Michelle E. Shaw contributed to this report.
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