Breezy conditions will give way to another winter chill by Friday morning, Channel 2 Action News meteorologists said.
Temperatures are expected to drop near freezing Friday before they rebound into the mid-60s over the weekend, meteorologist Brad Nitz said. Lows will linger in the 30s through Sunday.
“We’ll continue with a lot of sunshine, with the exception of a few stray flurries, some passing clouds over metro Atlanta and wind gusts over 20 miles an hour,” Nitz said.
The low pressure that brought windy, cold and stormy weather to metro Atlanta Wednesday moved away from the area, but is wrapping around and bringing snow and a wintry mix across the far north Georgia mountains, meteorologist Karen Minton said.
That snow won’t trickle down to the metro area, meteorologists said, but the cold will.
The wedge of cold air that protected the Atlanta metro from strong storms in the early hours of Wednesday dropped temperatures significantly, in some cases more than 20 degrees, in areas like LaGrange, Griffin and Carrollton, according to Channel 2.
Temperatures were 49 degrees in Atlanta, 36 degrees in Blairsville and 49 degrees in Griffin at 1:20 p.m. Thursday.
“The low [pressure] is pulling away, so the gradient is relaxing a little, and that will continue to be the trend through the day,” Minton said.
In the meantime, crews and builders worked Thursday to recover from the storms.
The wet and windy weather caused construction setbacks with the multi-million-dollar Atlanta Braves stadium being built in Cobb County, according to Channel 2.
And road crews have repaired part of a Cherokee County highway that was wiped out by storms Wednesday at Highway 108 and Mt. Carmel Church Lane, according to the WSB 24-hour Traffic Center.
High winds caused several problems in the Atlanta metro area Wednesday from downed power lines and standing water on roads to uprooted trees and fallen tree limbs.
One large tree sliced the roof of a van and came within a foot of crushing a metro Atlanta driver, Channel 2 said.
Juan Landin was inside his van when a wind gust blew in and snapped a tree, toppling it onto the roof of the vehicle.
“I could see nothing more. I woke up and was like, ‘Oh my God, what happened?’” Landin told Channel 2.
He was treated at a Gainesville hospital.
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