It won’t feel like it over the next few days, but metro Atlanta is “headed right back into the freezer” next week, bringing another threat of snow.
That’s according to Channel 2 Action News meteorologist Brian Monahan, who said the crash in temperatures is expected Sunday night into Monday. There is a possibility of snow again, but forecast models are not certain that far in the future.
Before that, though, we’ll have slightly above-average highs Thursday and Friday as temps climb to near 60 degrees. Then, we’ll see a slight decrease in temps starting Saturday, when widespread showers are expected, potentially bringing up to 2 inches of rain.
On Sunday, though, the temperature drops as we head into Monday.
“Arctic cold air spilling south out of the North Pole is going to bring us our coldest air of the season so far, even colder than last week,” Monahan warned.
Lows will plunge into the teens heading into Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and highs are expected to stay at or below freezing then and on Tuesday.
If the high stays at 30 degrees Monday, it’ll tie the record lowest high temperature set in 1940, according to the National Weather Service. And so far, we’ve had the overall coldest January since 2014.
Much like last week’s winter storm, the upcoming cold blast from the North Pole is expected to dip across the Southeast and could then clash with moisture pushing in from the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday. That’s what is driving the potential for snow then and on Wednesday.
“We still don`t have a great handle on what`s going to happen,“ the Weather Service said in a Thursday forecast update. ”There are too many competing variables in the major (forecast) models ... The key takeaway here is that it still remains a possibility.”
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