Hi everybody, meteorologist
Andrew Wilson here with an update
to the forecast for today.
It is Wednesday so we do our
weekly weather updates and this
week you know looking pretty good.
We do have some rain chances in there.
We need the rainfall and a little bit of
shower and thunderstorm activity could
help us cool off just a little bit.
Remember it has been very much on
the hot side very recently and we
could use a little bit of rainfall
to cool us off a little bit.
Looking at the radar for today.
Not seeing anything in the way
of rain out there.
We are going to have some better
chances as we head throughout the
latter part of this afternoon.
Possibly you just see a few spotty showers.
That's all. We pretty much had,
but some of those spotty showers have
been for areas that need that rain.
Again, this is for Wednesday afternoon.
You notice that down towards Athens
saw a little bit of shower activity,
but in Atlanta not seeing as much,
here's what we've seen so far today.
The sunrise was beautiful,
a lot of blue sky,
a few sears clouds out there.
Now we're starting to see a little
bit more cloud cover bubble up.
That's going to continue as we head
throughout the afternoon and again,
maybe a spotty shower here or
there as we head throughout this
afternoon looking around.
Across North Georgia,
no delays at the airport.
That's good to see.
You know they've had plenty of
rainfall more recently and then
looking out towards downtown.
Of course,
we just saw in and then off towards Athens
and then into the Circle 75 Office Park.
We are seeing just a little bit of
cloud cover in both of those locations.
Radar again.
We just looked at it not seeing
too much out there.
The southeast though we're having
a little bit of those isolated
pop-up showers and storms similar
to what we would get any other
summer here across the Southeast.
Very typical summer pattern.
set-up right now and that means well.
It's also hot,
and it's also humid 91 right now in Atlanta.
As of about 2:45 in the afternoon
on Wednesday,
and the DEW points they're
up there in the 60s and 70s.
So what do I mean when I say
60s and 70s for dew points?
Well, that means that it's humid,
so oppressive.
In other words,
really uncomfortable to be outside
as we head throughout the next week.
It's going to stay that way,
but that's pretty much where our
dew points are whenever we make our
way throughout the summer months.
And we don't expect that to change
here as we head throughout this next week.
Temperatures for today.
They rise into the 90s again.
A few spotty showers possible,
but the rain chances are going to
improve here as we had throughout
the latter part of the week,
70s,
and 60s there were waking up on Thursday,
moving into the afternoon.
We're going to see a little
bit of better chances for rain
temperatures rising into the 90s.
Isolated showers and storms
here and there and seeing a
little bit of a cloud cover too,
about a partly cloudy sky for the
afternoon there on Thursday and Friday.
Starting off with temperatures in the
70s and then you bet more chances
for isolated showers and storms.
And I think the rain chances are going
to be a little more heightened there.
As we head throughout Friday and yes,
even into the early part of the week,
and I know we don't like
rain chances on the weekend,
but we're going to be kind of stuck
into that kind of pattern as we
head throughout at least Saturday.
Temperatures going to be in the 90s as
we head throughout the next few days.
Notice that as the rain chances go up,
the temperatures go down,
temperatures only into the 90 degree mark
there as we head throughout Saturday,
Sunday,
9190 degrees there from Monday.
And that's going to be also around
where the rain chance is going to be
heightened a little bit 40 to 50%
chance for rain for Friday and Saturday.
30% chances.
And there for Sunday and Monday,
and we're going to stick with those
30% chances as we head throughout the
end of the seven day forecast too.
So we have two ridges of high
pressure right now across portions
of the United States.
They're the reason why we've been so dry.
We've kind of been sandwiched
between these two and this through
that's making its way across parts
parts of the Great Lakes in Canada,
it's going to sweep across,
and it's going to cause us to have
a little bit of better chances for
rain there as we head throughout
Friday and Saturday.
Once we head into Sunday.
The end of the day on Sunday and into
really Monday and Tuesday of next week,
we're going to start to see this Ridge
try to get back in our direction and
as it works its way back towards us,
we see the rain chances slim
off a little bit.
And by the middle of next week if this
Ridge does manage to set back up over us,
we may see those rain chances really
go down back into the 20% range you're
rainfall forecast over the next seven days.
Shows that the rain chances will be
or the rain accumulations will be a
little higher further toward north.
Remember how I talked about that?
Draw sweeping across.
Well,
it's not going to really bring
enough to the atmosphere to spark
too much shower and thunderstorm
activity for our region,
but look up into Tennessee, Kentucky,
Virginia, West Virginia.
That's going to be where some spots
could pick up over the next seven days.
4 to 5 inches of rainfall.
That's where they'll have better
chances for rain.
And as far as our region is concerned,
far North Georgia, having the better
chance 1/2 of an inch to inch and a
half there for Rome and stretching
up to Blue Ridge Blairsville.
That's going to be where they
had that better. Shot in Atlanta.
Not as good on the rain.
Chances over the next week.
We're talking about 1/4 of an inch or less.
Unfortunately.
Looks like Athens may be hurting on the rain.
There's just some spots that
could really need the rain.
Right now.
The drought monitor not showing Athens
under that abnormally dry conditions,
but there are actually about four
inches behind rainfall for the year,
so let's hope we can get a
little bit more rain to help out.
Some of our friends there.
Further to the east of Atlanta,
Atlanta still showing abnormally
dry and we still have some
moderate drought conditions.
For parts of our region too,
so let's hope that we can get a little
bit of rainfall here and there to kind
of help us out on those drought conditions.
As far as the rain by month,
you know, July,
we've had a good amount of rainfall,
but not enough to get us up to
the normal for this time of year,
we should be at 4.75 inches
by the end of the month.
We only have a few days left here,
and if we don't get those few inches
of or that rather just under an
inch of rain over the next few days,
then we may fall behind for
the month of July.
But we are still ahead for the year.
Notice almost by a full inch,
we are ahead at 30.72 inches,
and that's thanks to the fact that
we had such wet conditions there
especially for February and March,
finishing well above average and then
June also finished well above normal.
Sorry about that.
Your 7 day forecast shows that as we
head throughout the next few days
here we are going to have a 40 to
50% chance for rain on Friday and Saturday.
We are going to have the waszmer coming in
at A6 for Friday and Saturday there and then.
Sunday, Monday, Tuesday 30% chances
for rain each day there 20% chances
for rain on Wednesday and Thursday,
so a little bit lower on those rain chances.
Temperatures will be rising into the 90s
for highs all throughout this next week,
so very warm conditions with 70s for lows.
To go along with it,
and then you're 8 to 14 day outlook,
showing that we are going to continue on
that trend of around average rainfall,
so not going to be seeing too much
additional rainfall as we make our
way throughout this next week and
we're good on that audio a little bit
earlier we did have that audio kind
of spike a little bit earlier on,
so I'm sorry that we had that
quick spike everybody,
but I was able to turn that off for y'all.
So 8 to 14 days shows that normal
amount of rainfall and then above.
Average temperatures,
temperatures could be rising all the
way up into the mid 90s as we head
throughout that 8 to 14 day time frame.
So what we're looking at here?
We're looking beyond that 7 day forecast.
We're talking about the first
full week of August,
showing that temperatures are
going to be well above average,
so really hot conditions just kind of
lingering on as we head into August.
But something that isn't heating
up by much is the tropics.
Over the next five days.
Looking like we're going to be having.
Had no chance for tropical development.
You know,
we've only had to rename systems
so far this year,
but it's typical that the hurricane
season Atlantic hurricane season
rather doesn't pick up until the
end of August early September.
So something we'll continue to watch.
But right now we've only had Alex Bonnie,
and Colin the next name on the
list would be Danielle,
but that won't be happening over
the next five days at least.
Tropical timeline showing that the peak
of the season again for the latter
part of August early part of September.
It starts June 1st and it
will end on November 30th,
so still a lot of time to go
on hurricane season.
Now we'll of course continue to
keep you updated all throughout it,
so taking a look at the weekend
getaways if you're planning any
big trips this weekend,
you know it's looking like we're
going to have some nice conditions.
If you're headed off towards the East
Coast heading towards the Atlantic Coast,
drier conditions for areas like
Savannah down to Charleston,
Great beach weather,
temperatures going to be in the 90s,
there for highs each day,
going to be having a partly cloudy
to mostly sunny
sky. Each of those days
all throughout the weekend.
So maybe taking that extra.
Maybe on Friday or extra day on Monday off
from work with how Nice it's going to be.
Showers and thunderstorms going to be
possible on Lake Lanier though as we
head from Friday all the way through Monday.
Gatlinburg showing that we're going
to be having some scattered showers
and storms each day so maybe not
the best weekend in the mountains.
But the good news is we're not going
to be having consistent rainfall.
It's not going to be constant,
it'll be off and on rain as we head
throughout the weekend there for Gatlinburg
and similar conditions for Destin.
Maybe a little wet there on Saturday
like what we have here in Atlanta.
But Sunday and Monday looking drier,
so maybe taking off that extra day
on Monday from work so you can enjoy
some of those nice conditions down
on the Emerald Coast of Florida.
So again, y'all,
we really need a little bit
of rainfall for some spots,
while other spots aren't doing too bad.
We talked a little bit about
rainfall earlier.
I wanted to show Athens where they're at
for this time of year as of Wednesday,
and the normal year to date you see,
normally they would be at 28.32
inches for this time of year.
Well, only just under 25 inches,
so we're more than three inches behind
for where we should be in Athens let
you know they really need the rainfall,
and we looked at the seven day
outlook for rainfall again,
and unfortunately it just didn't
show much for them.
We're talking about 1/4 of an
inch or less over towards Athens,
meanwhile, up towards Rome.
You know they're not hurting in Rome,
but they have really good chances for
rain over the next week with some spots,
possibly Rome may pick up another
inch to an inch and a half over
the next seven days and you see
they're already an inch.
Ahead,
so some spots picking up rain this
week that don't really need it as much,
but any rainfall would be nice right now.
That way we can continue to push
away that moderate drought and
those abnormally dry conditions.
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So again, here's your 7 day forecast.
We'll be having those slight chances
for rain. For Wednesday and Thursday.
Partly cloudy sky each day.
Low to mid 90s.
For highs very hot conditions and then
we move into Friday 40% chance for rain.
You see the temperatures come down,
rain chances stay higher Friday
night and into Saturday up to a 50%
chance for showers and thunderstorms.
Not expecting anything severe,
but this time of year you can always have
that possibility of an isolated storm or two,
becoming strong to severe,
so something we'll continue to keep an eye on
all throughout the weekend and then Sunday,
Monday and Tuesday.
It's down to a 30% chance for rain,
and temperatures are manageable.
We should be at 90 degrees for
the high this time of year,
so seeing 90 there from Monday is
very welcoming and seeing a little
bit of rain chances here and there
is also very welcoming.
So don't forget we do these
updates every Wednesday.
We'll continue to keep you updated
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