Warm weather is coming, Atlanta.
As much as two inches of snow and a tenth of an inch of ice fell across the metro area Saturday morning, bringing along sporadic power outages, icy patches of road and downed trees. Sunday started with similar temperatures — 20s across the region — but temperatures eventually approached 50 degrees, and the warming trend will continue Monday.
Lows around 33 and highs around 56 are expected.
Clouds may “thicken up” Tuesday night, Channel 2 Action News meteorologist Brian Monahan said, but not before temperatures around the metro approach an unseasonably warm 60 degrees.
The possibility of precipitation is expected to return Wednesday, but temperatures will be well above freezing.
The remaining winter weather advisory covering several counties in far northern Georgia expired at 10 a.m. Sunday. That region was hit harder than the metro area, with as much as six inches of snow hitting areas in Rabun County.
The same storm system is dumping more than two feet of snow in cities farther north along the Eastern Seaboard.
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