Sunshine for Thanksgiving, some rain during weekend

ATLANTA FORECAST

Friday: High: 50

Friday night: Low: 40

Saturday: High: 57

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

Reality check: The enjoyable Thanksgiving weather won’t last.

“Tomorrow is a big change,” Channel 2 Action News meteorologist Brian Monahan said of Friday.

By late afternoon, there should be mist and drizzle, with scattered showers and mainly light rain through the evening and overnight hours, he said. The high is expected to be 50.

There’s an 80 percent chance of rain Saturday, also.

The Georgia Department of Transportation has a holiday schedule in force for the express lanes.

On Thanksgiving, the Northwest Corridor Express Lanes in Cobb and Cherokee counties will be open southbound.

At 11 a.m. Friday, the lanes will go northbound. At 11 a.m. Saturday they’ll go back to southbound, and at 11:30 p.m. Saturday, they’ll reverse to northbound. At 11 a.m. Sunday, they’ll change to southbound and stay that way through Monday morning, when they’ll resume normal operations.

Also, the I-75 South Metro Express Lanes will stay southbound through Friday morning. They will reverse to northbound Friday at 11 a.m. and remain northbound through Monday at 11 a.m. Normal operations will resume Monday.