Welcome back to the show, folks.
I'm meteorologist Chesley McNei.
We've been monitoring these thunderstorms
pushing through our area as we speak.
Now a lot of that shifting over
toward the east and down to the
South and east of our forecast .
And so we'll be watching that.
We do have a severe thunderstorm warning
that remains in effect until 9:00 o'clock.
This is now heading over towarde
Athens area, so into Clark Coun,
which you see back off here to the West,
maybe trim back,
although we're seeing numerous
lightning strikes associated with it.
Down toward the southern ends
of Walton County, you see.
Toward Monroe right now,
got some heavy rain there that extends
back into the cab county as wel.
Couple likely strikes up here jt
to the South and West of Dansvi.
We had a tornado warning on
one of these cells,
but it was a quick spin up and d
that's what we could see folks.
So even though we don't have any
tornado warnings out there right now,
a quick spin up is certainly possible,
especially as this line continues to advance
a little bit further down to the South.
Some good news here where you cn
see over toward Carrollton now.
South of Carrollton,
where we just have a few moderate pockets,
we had some stronger storms her,
but now they've fallen apart
just a little bit.
As things begin to shift
over toward the East,
I suspect that this should be
out of our area or at least the
line itself South of us.
Even South of social circle and
even down toward Eatonton by the
time we get toward 1011 o'clock
been seeing some light showers
back behind it over toward Jasp.
You out of it for a minute.
Now we got some light showers
that are pushing back through.
Anything else will be on the light side,
but your trend should be clearing skies.
As we head through the rest of e
afternoon we'll dry these clouds
out and get some sunshine in he.
Believe it or not after about
two or three o'clock with these
thunderstorms the main threat
has been those damaging winds.
We've got numerous reports of trees down.
Power outages due to the winds that have
been around with some of these thunderstorms,
some moderate.
We're looking at moderateness ie
way of rainfall because we've had that
heavy rainfall coming down evend
to an accident there on I-75 possibly
and then a low threat for torna.
And again we just saw that quick spin up.
Most of those likely Doppler indicated
we haven't heard any reports ofy
tornadoes on the ground at all.
But when you get that rotation in there,
it's better to be on the safe
side rather than sorry, right,
the winds, the other story,
those gusts in the 20 mile per hour range,
we saw that.
Since this morning,
I think it will be with us right on through
the afternoon, even after those
thunderstorms begin to subside n
to the South of us, back behind.
We're looking at those gusts geg
up to about 30 to 40 mph at tim.
And so we have a wind advisory that's
going to last until 11:00 o'clock tonight.
Those winds will be strong even
when the sunshine breaks out.
You can see from Henry County northward we
have a wind advisory and that's lasting
until 11:00 PM our sustained wis
anywhere between 15 and 25 mph s
will be in the 45 mile per hour rain.
So if you have any.
Loose items, you want to make
sure those are anchored down.
No doubt with the heavy rain that we've had,
even with the winds lasting
through the afternoon,
that still will make our trees
subceptable as well to toppling over,
which could lead to more power outages
even after the storms are gone.
Temperatures are running in the
60s just about everywhere you l.
We have some 50s out there righw
with the rain is just past the .
We're right now at 57 degrees,
55 over toward Carrollton where
we have that rain right now,
where we haven't had any rain just yet.
Down toward Thomaston.
Temperatures are starting off
right there in the 70s will be
heating up close to 80 degrees.
For this afternoon and a lot
of spots well into the 70s,
you got 80 into Athens,
over toward Thomason as well.
Temperatures will be on the warm side,
cooler air will filter in behind the front.
And so by tomorrow,
even though we'll have mostly sunny skies,
we will be a little bit cooler.
In fact, it's an 11 live day fo.
We're looking at a perfect day weather wise.
That front will pass through.
Our winds will shift from the Sh
more to westerly as we head through the
afternoon but stay on the windy side.
The severe weather threat will
shift to the South as well.
You can see the moderate risk over us now.
That level 2 threat is down
to the South of us.
That's other slight risk for severe weather.
They'll be South of the Macon area once
they get in on the daytime heat.
With that front moving through,
we can see some of those storms
begin to intensify there.
For the rest of us, we're clearing it out.
It's going to be a nice afterno,
a wind up, a nice looking afternoon for us.
We'll stay clear through the
overnight into our Sunday.
A beautiful sunrise,
plenty of sunshine around for
the rest of the day.
Enjoy it because Monday the
clouds will come back in the ra.
Chance will come back.
In fact,
it'll stay unsettled for much of
next week with a low threat for.
Rain really doesn't get stronger
until we get to Thursday and Fr,
and those temperatures will be in the
80s by Tuesday and Wednesday of next week.