WEATHER: Sunshine to cap off week, clouds and chances of rain return by Saturday evening

The heat remains cranked up past the 90 degree mark as NWS Peachtree City expects it to feel hotter across the region to cap off the week, and the weekend promises at least one more day of feeling like being in a broiler before relief comes with some rainfall expect to move in at the end of the week.

Look for the highs in the low 90s and a heat index into the low 100s across the region, and temps down overnight into the mid 70s to cap off the week after it started pleasant and then got downright boiling out for the second half of the week.

The forecast does include some additional risk of severe weather, but only in the far northern reaches of the state while a Threat Level 1 is expected for a majority of the state.

The thermometer will remain in the low 90s and the heat index still above the 100 mark on Saturday, but it looks like rain could be coming in scattered showers during the evening hours, but only sit at about 30 percent for the moment.

Chances for showers and thunderstorms are growing in possibility on Saturday night, increasing after sundown into the overnight hours. Expect lows down into the 70s again.

On Sunday, the chance for rain during the morning hours is up to 80% as of the evening hours forecast provided by NWS Peachtree City on June 11, and will remain through the day as cloudy skies should stay overhead through the evening hours and rain chances return overnight.

Expect a high in the mid to upper 80s, and down into the upper 60s overnight.

The chances for rain during the morning hours to open the week on Monday morning, and remain in place through the remainder of the day through Monday afternoon and evening are expected as well, and Georgia’s round of monsoon summer chances of showers remain through Tuesday and into Thursday.

Chances of rain to close out the week coming up, but should start tapering off for the official start of summer and Father’s Day.

The latter half of the month should start seeing the thermometer remain in the mid to upper 80s heading into Independence Day 2026, which marks America’s 250th birthday.

Drought relief continues across Southeast

The rainfall expected over the coming days and possible into the opening days of summer should help continue to relieve drought conditions statewide as no more exceptional drought conditions are found in Georgia.

Extreme drought conditions are now in isolated portions of the North Georgia Mountains and the Coastal Empire around Savannah and the Low Country, but Moderate and Severe Drought persists through most of the state.

Northwest Georgia in particular is seeing the relief of May and June rainfall provide a chance for rising waters to replenish the drought, with much of the region transitioning in recent weeks from severe and extreme drought back to moderate drought and abnormally dry conditions.

Two tiny spots in Georgia now have no drought conditions at all: the western portion of Polk County near the Alabama state line, and a small southwest corner of Floyd County around Cave Spring.

If rainfall persists through the remainder of the month, much of the region and the state should see a majority of drought relief to persist heading into hotter summer months.

Much of the south still remains under drought, but Alabama has transitioned out of drought and into a large portion of the state just being abnormally dry or in moderate drought.

Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia remain much drier than Georgia has experienced over the past months, but are seeing some relief. Coastal regions of South Carolina and the Florida Panhandle remain the most widely impacted areas.

Tennessee and Mississippi are seeing relief as well, but pockets of severe and extreme drought remain across in Louisiana, Arkansas and East Texas.

Droughts in the upper plains and in the Rocky Mountains are still suffering from much drier conditions than other areas of the nation. Much of the country in one portion of a state or another is experiencing some kind of drought or dry conditions, with exception of Ohio and Alaska.

Check back next week for an update from the U.S. Drought Monitor for the latest conditions.