Community Corner
Is it January or November?
The temperatures say January starting this weekend and into next week
Hope you enjoyed fall, because after tonight, it’s only going to be a nice warm memory.
Arctic air is slowly oozing south and will enter the metro area later this evening. The front will be slow to move through Atlanta as a small leeside low develops over South Carolina and slows the progression. Of course, the mountains are another obstacle and another reason that this low forms.
Here’s what the Atlanta NWS has to say right now:
THE NEXT BIG CHANGE BEGINS SATURDAY NIGHT AS AN OVERRUNNING FLOW DEVELOPS WITH LOW CHANCE PRECIP POTENTIAL STARTING LATE. CURRENT RUNS OF THE EUROPEAN AND GFS ARE NOW SLOWER AND TEMPERATURES WILL BE CRITICAL FOR SOME AREAS OF N GA. THINK LOW TEMPERATURES IN THE LOWER 30S WILL OCCUR EARLY BEFORE PRECIP CHANCES KICK IN AND THIS WILL NEED TO BE MONITORED FOR THE POSSIBLY OF A RAIN/FREEZING RAIN/SNOW MIX. THINK THE COLDEST PORTION OF THE AIRMASS WILL BE MODIFYING WITH LIGHT RAIN CHANCES PREDOMINATING. RAIN CHANCES LOOK TO MAXIMIZE ON SUNDAY/SUNDAY NIGHT WITH HIGHEST POPS OVER N AND PORTIONS OF CENTRAL THEN SHIFTING TO THE EAST AND SOUTHEAST CWA. TEMPERATURES COULD BE CRITICAL BRIEFLY EARLY SUNDAY BUT STILL THINK RAIN WILL PREDOMINATE.
GFS AND EUROPEAN STRUGGLING HANDLING A SURFACE WAVE AND TIMING OF A COLD FRONT ON MONDAY AND THIS COULD DELAY THE ENDING OF PRECIP CHANCES. TIMING OF THE COLD AIR COULD ALSO LEAD TO A MIX OR CHANGE OVER TO SNOW SHOWERS ACROSS FAR N GA BEFORE ENDING. TEMPERATURES WILL AGAIN BE CRITICAL ACROSS N GA EARLY MONDAY.
PRECIP CHANCES LOOK TO HAVE ENDED MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY WITH A REINFORCING OF A COLD AIRMASS ACROSS THE AREA.
STAYED TUNED TO CHANGES TO THIS FORECAST FOR THE WEEKEND AND MONDAY.
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By 7 PM tomorrow night, we should be several degrees below freezing already, and by Saturday morning, temperatures will be in the mid to upper 20’s. I don’t expect the highs to get above the low 40’s for Saturday.
But the cold air doesn’t end, and it’s starting to look like this will continue through almost Thanksgiving before it relaxes a little. I will have temperature maps and other information on my North Georgia Weather blog site later this morning, as well as my North Georgia Weather on Facebook, DaculaWeather on Twitter, and of course, DaculaWeather.com.