Tracking showers and storms
moving through northwest Georgia.
Right now we have some scattered
showers in the metro area,
but the so far the greater
coverage of rain has been to
the north and northwest of us.
But all this is eventually going to
be moving our way as we go through
the late night hours and also
overnight tonight we don't have
any severe storms in our area now.
We had a severe thunderstorm warning
earlier for Dade and Walker County,
but as that moved over to the
east it weakened somewhat.
But really the main thing we're watching now.
This rain,
but it's going to be overnight and
toward tomorrow morning when we're
going to see that thunderstorm risk
and even the severe weather risk
going up just a little bit more as
the front gets closer to our area.
As we put this into motion,
you can see in the metro area,
we've only been dealing with just a few
spotty showers that have been moving through.
Some of those though have had some
moderate to heavy rain with them.
We've had a few flashes of lightning,
but nothing severe here.
Northwest Georgia first,
let's look at Metro Atlanta.
You can see some of those scattered
showers that have been moving through.
We had one that moved right over the airport.
A little bit earlier didn't cause any delays,
though that's now pushing on
up to the east of us scattered
showers through Barrow County,
also into Walton County,
Gwinnett County, just a couple of
spotty showers on the north side.
We've been dealing north metro areas,
just a few of those showers,
but most of the rain so far
has been in Northwest Georgia.
And we're really going to have to watch
very closely these rainfall amounts
because more is going to be coming through.
And when you get these moderate to heavy
showers training over the same areas,
we can see some localized flooding.
In some spots.
So we'll watch that part of
Northwest Georgia for that.
You can see some of these a little
heavier that were heavier earlier
are showing signs of weakening
as they move over to the east.
Now on the South side,
we've got this one that's moving
through Coweta County right up 85.
That'll push into Fayette County,
South Fulton in just a little
while and also into Clayton County.
That may make it to the airport
in a little bit too more.
The action though is in North Alabama.
We have scattered showers and storms here,
a lot of Thunder and lightning,
severe thunderstorm warning again to the
north and West of the Birmingham area.
Lightning count has come down a little bit.
Earlier it was 500 lightning
strikes in a 15 minute period.
Last time we checked this it was 296.
Now it's 226.
So with the lightning count coming down,
that's showing signs that it is
moving into a little more stable air.
We also have severe storms that
have been in western
parts of Alabama.
We had a tornado warning there
earlier in western Alabama.
Now some tornado warnings in
eastern Mississippi about to
cross over the line into Alabama.
Additional several severe thunderstorm
warnings and tornado warnings.
Back into Mississippi, here's a live
look in Coweta County right now.
We've had a few showers that have
moved through there earlier.
Now the roads are still wet.
That additional rain moving through
Coweta County right now near Noonan,
the Storm Prediction Center has just
updated the latest convective outlook,
showing that level 4 risk still
extending through parts of central
Mississippi and into western Alabama.
It is a little bit smaller now than the
Level 3 risk and then the level 2 risk
that did stop earlier at the Georgia.
Alabama line has now extended into
West Georgia and then the level
one risk that was covering Metro
Atlanta has now extended past
Athens over toward the Georgia,
South Carolina line.
So as these storms come in,
we're still dealing with a threat
for some isolated stronger storms
that could have damaging wind,
heavy rain and that low tornado risk.
And again that tornado risk
is on the low end.
But we always have to watch with the
system like this that we could get
some individual storms that might have
a little bit of rotation with them.
Then tomorrow in the morning is when
we're going to be dealing with some,
still some showers and storms around.
But that's going to kick down to
the South and east pretty quickly.
We'll clear out here and that severe
weather threat goes down into parts
of central Georgia and South Georgia.
So these are the main threats
that we're watching.
The heavy rain risk is really the
highest risk that we'll be dealing with.
The damaging wind risk is more moderate.
I think that would be in more
isolated areas instead of widespread.
And the tornado risk is on the low end.
We're not really worried about
hail out there either.
Mild conditions,
60s right now,
some 50s though to the north and also to the
east of us and through the next 12 hours,
temperatures aren't going to drop much,
will hold in the 60s,
upper 50s by morning.
But look at that cloud cover and
those rain chances as they're
going up only A5 on the waszmer.
Rainy.
Conditions in the morning then clearing
out in the afternoon with highs around 66,
but cooling down during the afternoon
as that northwest wind blows in.
So you can see the storms tonight in
Northwest Georgia later tonight overnight.
This is at 2:00 in the morning.
The bulk of the rain over the metro
area moderate to heavy at times
heaviest rain at 6:00 o'clock
to the South but still lingering
showers here in the metro area.
Then it all clears out.
We'll have sunshine returning.
We're thinking before lunchtime
here on Wednesday.
Remember those temperatures
cooling later in the afternoon.
Then we get down to the mid
30s Thursday morning
with a high of 50.
536 Friday morning with a high of 57,
then milder air for the weekend,
back to the 60s and then a 30 to
40% chance for showers Saturday,
Sunday and into Monday and Tuesday too.