Chances for strong winds, tornadoes impacting NWGA increasing as cold temps to follow
The threat of severe weather is increasing by the hour according to the forecast from the National Weather Service, who expect the potential for high winds, tornadic activity and even hail overnight with a cold front pushing into the region. Then that same front will be bringing arctic air to Northwest Georgia one last time before winter calls it quits.
Be advised that no watches or warnings are in effect AT THE MOMENT, but the southeast is under the gun and a line of storms ranging from Texas to the Great Lakes is set to push across the Southeast and gain strength as it goes along, putting several states from the Canadian border to the Gulf under the gun during the overnight hours.
NWS Peachtree City has much of the region expecting storms in the forecast that could produce damaging winds and “a few tornadoes” coming through between midnight and 7 a.m., with temperatures expected to remain in the 60s throughout the overnight hours after highs got into the mid-70s for the day in many parts of the region.
Far Northwest Georgia along the Alabama line have the highest chances for severe weather at a level 3 – from Murray County in the east and encompassing the entire western half of the state along with the region’s neighbors in Southeast Tennessee and Northeast Alabama.
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Counties who should be on the lookout overnight include Bartow, Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Floyd, Gordon, Haralson, Paulding and Polk Counties, encompassing the entire I-75 north corridor through Columbus and down the state line.
High winds and tornadic activity are the main threats currently expected to impact the region overnight.
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The threat should push through eastward by the early morning hours for the region, and behind it the thermometer is set to drop.
Northwest Georgia is set to feel high for the day overnight as temps start dropping into the 60s with the severe weather pushing through. Then the thermometer going down to the 40s as rain finishes off during the early morning hours and into the afternoon, with temps down into the 30s and heading below freeing overnight.
Expect overnight lows into the 20s in some spots around early Tuesday morning to open St. Patrick’s Day, with a freeze warning in effect around the region starting overnight Monday and into the morning hours for the holiday. Don’t worry too much about the frosty finish to winter: sunshine will be back in the forecast fully to turn around through midweek and into the tail end of the week of March.
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Highs will be up into the 70s and 80s by next Saturday, and down into the low 50s overnight for the opening days of spring officially.
The season officially changes over on Friday (highs in the 60s and 70s, lows in the 30s and 40s) and celebrates the vernal equinox, when the tilt of the earth provides an equal amount of light between northern and southern hemispheres.
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