Metro Atlanta is not wet yet, but that will change Friday as another cold front brings widespread showers and some thunderstorms.
Sprinkles are starting to fall Friday morning in the northwest corner of the state and in the northern suburbs. Much more rain is on the way, according to Channel 2 Action News meteorologist Brian Monahan.
“That rain is going to overspread North Georgia as we head through the morning,” he said. “By midday, we’ll see a good coverage of showers across North Georgia.”
An isolated, embedded thunderstorm is possible with some of the rain, but Monahan said there is no severe weather in the forecast Friday. It will be wet off and on through the day, he said, as rain chances build to 90%.
“Behind this system, boy, it is going to get cold tomorrow morning,” he said. “The coldest air of certainly the spring is going to make its way down the East Coast.”
Metro Atlanta is already cool to start the day Friday, but temperatures in the 50s are on average 10 degrees above what they were Thursday morning. On Saturday, the city could wake up to a low of 43 degrees.
It would make Saturday the coldest May morning in at least a decade, Monahan said.
A freeze warning is scheduled to go into effect overnight for Fannin, Gilmer, Towns and Union counties in the northeast Georgia mountains. Freeze conditions are expected through 9 a.m. Saturday, according to the National Weather Service.
Monahan said both Friday and Saturday will see afternoon highs in the 60s, with Friday’s projected high a mild 67 degrees. Temperatures should return to the low 70s Sunday, according to the latest forecast.
“We’ve got plenty of sunshine for you on Sunday,” Monahan said.
With pavement across most of metro Atlanta starting out dry, there are no weather-related delays on the interstates Friday morning, the WSB 24-hour Traffic Center reported at 6 a.m. That could change with the arrival of the rain.
Volume is expected to be light throughout the day. Even a week after a statewide shelter-in-place order was lifted, traffic has not returned to normal, according to the Traffic Center.
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