After such a long stretch of frigid weather, a very welcomed warmup is on the way for Georgia.
Temperatures are still below freezing Friday morning, but highs will climb into the mid and upper 40s, which will help melt the snow and ice that covered South and central Georgia, which rarely sees more than a frosty morning dew.
Tuesday’s winter storm brought up to 9 inches of snow to the southern half the state, causing icy mayhem on roads everywhere. The south side of metro Atlanta also got around an inch of snowfall.
We’ll have another bitterly cold morning on Saturday, with overnight lows dipping into the 20s and 30s, but after that, low temps should stay closer to the 40-degree range for the foreseeable future.
“This is going to be something that we will welcome, because for 90 of the past 106 hours (since Sunday night), we have been below freezing,” Channel 2 Action News meteorologist Ashley Kramlich said.
Highs on Saturday will be near 50 degrees, and we’ll see a gradual return to more seasonal temps each day at least through Wednesday. Highs are expected to top out around 62 degrees then unless cloud cover is more than expected.
You might even “have to break out some shorts,” the National Weather Service reports.
Highs in the mid 50s is the average for this time of year, according to the Weather Service.
As for rain, we do have a few scattered showers in the forecast Sunday night into Monday morning. Those showers could mix in with a few snow flurries in the highest elevations of the North Georgia mountains, but do not expect any accumulation, the NWS predicts.
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