WEATHER-TRAFFIC UPDATE: Gwinnett road reopens after gas leak fixed

ATLANTA FORECAST

Monday: High: 68

Monday night: Low: 46

Tuesday: High: 69

» For a detailed forecast, visit The Atlanta Journal-Constitution weather page.

UPDATE [8:12 p.m.]: The gas leak on Norcross Tucker Road has been fixed, and all lanes of the road between Glochester Place and Buford Highway have reopened, Norcross police told AJC.com.

ORIGINAL: Drivers in Gwinnett and North Fulton counties have a reason to feel dreary, aside from the overcast sky and patchy rain.

Norcross Tucker Road is blocked between Glochester Place and Buford Highway because of a gas leak, according to Norcross police. There is no estimated time for when the repairs will be completed, and they could “go past this evening’s rush hour,” the department said in a news release.

Surface streets in Roswell are also struggling Monday, since a crash has blocked all lanes of Alpharetta Highway at Hembree Road, according to the WSB 24-hour Traffic Center.

A stalled vehicle on Ga. 400 at Holcomb Bridge Road also blocks two northbound lanes, slowing things even more in North Fulton, the Traffic Center reported.

All of this comes after Midtown’s rough morning on the roads. A snapped power pole closed a busy section of Spring Street, disabling several traffic signals for hours.

Georgia power replaced the power pole and restored power to the area just before 11 a.m. All lanes were reopened around noon.

RELATED: Part of major Midtown street reopens after power pole snaps

Georgia power replaced the power pole and restored power to the area just before 11 a.m.

Most of the heavy rain is in Middle Georgia, but there are patches on the Southside, Channel 2 Action News reported. The bigger effect is how the cloud cover cooled the city down to 55 degrees by 5 p.m. It was more than 10 degrees warmer in Atlanta about two hours earlier.

“This afternoon, a little system is going to come in from the west and spread a few sprinkles and light showers across North Georgia,” Channel 2 meteorologist Brian Monahan said. “That will impact part of the evening commute.”

The rain is expected to be on the light side, with only about one-tenth of an inch of accumulation expected in metro Atlanta by the end of the day. Amounts will be less in far North Georgia, Monahan said.

“It’s not going to be anything heavy (in metro Atlanta), but you know it doesn't take much rain to cause some issues for the evening commute,” he said.

Monahan said showers should clear out quickly Monday night as a cold front moves farther south.

Monahan said temps are forecast to stay in the upper 60s and low 70s over the next few days before cooler weather returns.

Atlanta will be back in the low 60s and upper 50s for the weekend, and cooler weather continues for early next week, he said.

Storms also return to the forecast by the end of the week, Monahan said. There’s a 40 percent chance of rain Thursday and a 60 percent chance Friday, along with a chance of storms.

Monahan said he does not see any severe weather risk in North Georgia during the work week, but there could be a major severe weather outbreak for parts of the Midwest and the Mississippi River Valley in the middle of the week.