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Scattered showers move through metro Atlanta

By Karen Minton
By Karen Minton

ATLANTA — Light rain is moving through metro Atlanta, and it isn’t expected to subside anytime soon.

Severe Weather Team 2 is tracking the timing of storms, on Channel 2 Action News. 

"The patches of light rain will continue for us through this afternoon," Severe Weather Team 2 meteorologist Karen Minton said. "You're going to be driving through some of this."

“The winds are going to be a bit stronger for us today,” Minton said.

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However, gusty winds aren’t expected to come with lower temps. The forecast high of 63 is 11 degrees above the average for this time of year.

What viewers can only get on Channel 2 Action News:

  • Updated hour-by-hour cloud and precipitation forecast showing the fog and mist developing Thursday morning.
  • Updated hour-by-hour cloud and precipitation forecast showing the timeline for showers and storms on Friday.
  • Where flurries are possible this weekend.

Above-average temps are expected to continue Friday, when the forecast high is 63 again and there is a 90 percent chance of rain.

Don’t get used to warm weather.

Atlanta can expect to wake up to a low of 32 degrees Saturday and 23 degrees Sunday.

“Computer models vary for light snow or flurries early Saturday morning,” Minton said.

The American model, which Minton says she’s sticking to for now, keeps flurries in far north Georgia.

“The European model gives a much wider area of snow as far south as Floyd to Paulding counties,” Minton said.

The snow, however, should stay clear of Atlanta.

Patchy light rain today with very mild temperatures. A cold front arrives tomorrow and brings showers and possible strong to severe storms. This is the hour by hour look. Much colder air behind the front for Saturday.

Posted by Karen Minton on Thursday, January 11, 2018

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