Monday will be another warm day without the April showers typical for this time of year, according to Channel 2 Action News.
“It’s just been a great start to April,” Channel 2 meteorologist Brian Monahan said. “It’s going to be warm. It’s going to be sunny. It’s going to be a little ‘polleny,’ too. Yes, I made that word up.”
Currently, temperatures across metro Atlanta are falling around 50 degrees.
“A light jacket or sweatshirt will do you if you are trying to get out,” Monahan said.
You won’t need it for long. Monahan is calling for a high of 81 degrees in Atlanta. The average high for this time of year is around 70.
It’s also drier now than it typically is in April, Monahan said. There has been no rain in the first five days of the month.
“That is the longest we have gone without any rain in Atlanta since late September and early October,” he said. “We went about two weeks then, just as the drought was about to end.”
While Monday could bring a slim chance for an isolated shower, “it will not amount to much,” Monahan said. “Most of us will stay dry.”
Don’t put your rain coat in the back of your closet just yet. The latest forecast indicates the opportunity for rain increases on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Scattered showers are in the forecast for both days, though neither one is predicted to be a total washout.
Traffic in metro Atlanta is light as the first full week of Gov. Brian Kemp’s shelter-in-place order begins. The executive order, which went into effect Friday night, instructs Georgians to stay home to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus.
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There is one exception, according to WSB traffic reporter Ashley Frasca.
A tractor-trailer fire has shut down southbound lanes of I-85 south of U.S. 129 in Jackson County for hours. The crash is causing delays in the area while officials work to clean up the wreckage, the WSB 24-hour Traffic Center reported.
According to Channel 2, the truck was hauling dairy products.
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