SEVERE WEATHER: Storms pushing through during morning hours, more pushing through this evening

NWS Peachtree City has no watches or warnings in place this morning around the area, but thunderstorms are rumbling through until this afternoon, and with a brief pause and some sunshine another round of wet weather is expected later this evening and into Wednesday.

The forecast calls for rain to continue through at least noon in Northwest Georgia, but it’ll be back as a cold front pushes through and threatens severe weather overnight.

At least a tenth of an inch of rain is expected to fall across the region this morning, upward of a quarter inch of rain – but don’t expect any relief from drought conditions anytime soon. This round of rain today, tonight and into Wednesday will not bring much in the way of refreshing the topsoil, but it’ll dry out on Thursday and into Friday.

More rainfall is coming though, but the state is well behind expected rainfall totals from 2025 and into 2026. More rain chances are in store for Thursday night and into Friday and the weekend, with sunshine returning by Sunday.

Temperatures are turning more seasonable for the remainder of the week, as the thermometer gets up into the upper 70s and low 80s today and lows down into the upper 50s and low 60s. Expect a high on Wednesday getting into the 80s, but additional rainfall will bring the thermometer down during overnight hours into the low 50s and upper 40s.

Highs from that point will remain in the mid 70s and down into the 40s and 50s overnight. The cold front is going to push temperatures down during the weekend into the 60s, and overnight lows into the 30s to open the month of May.

Drought conditions

Despite the wet weather currently, the lack of rainfall through the past months has much of the nation under some form of drought conditions at this time. All of Georgia is under some kind of drought, the remainder of the Southeast stretching from the Texas coast into Virginia, the Mid Atlantic states and even portions of the Northeast are dry in one form or another, per the U.S. Drought Monitor run by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

The Plains states and much of the West are under drough conditions as well, with abnormally dry conditions are even impacting areas of Alaska and Hawaii.

One region currently outside of the drought? The states around the Great Lakes. From Western Pennsylvania and New York to Wisconsin, the Midwest is outside of the droughts plaguing other states at the moment.

Unfortunately, the late month April showers are not nearly enough to get the Southeast – and the Northwest Georgia region specifically – out of the woods on dry conditions. All told, the forecast only calls for a maximum of maybe on the outside an inch and a half of rain as the current cold front pushes through.

NWS Peachtree City’s Rainfall scorecard for Metro Atlanta (for instance) have the area only at 9.74 inches of rain, well behind the 30-year average at this point in the year. (Numbers are only available through March currently.) The Atlanta area was also 20 inches off of total rainfall recorded in 2025 from the previous year. The Metro area had 63.1 inches in 2024, while 2025 had 41.4 inches of rain recorded.

(Numbers on this particular scorecard were not available for Northwest Georgia counties.)

On Monday, Gov. Brian Kemp issued a Level 1 Drought and put restrictions in place for residents in water use. Public Water systems are implementing rules for water systems that use surface or groundwater.

Statewide, requests are being made of consumers including fixing leaks, running full loads of laundry, installing water-efficient fixtures and appliances where possible, and limiting unnecessary water use. (Look for additional coverage of this shortly.)