Freezing Rain Update
It’s beginning to look like the area of freezing rain predicted for this weekend is being extended south and west of where it was estimated to be on Tuesday.
As you can see in the image at the left, light rain moves into Gwinnett county by 10 PM on Friday, and turns into freezing rain by 4 AM on Saturday. The area of freezing rain moves eastward and becomes more widespread by 10 AM, and should be all rain by 4 PM. The freezing rain should stay north Interstate 20.
Temperatures should drop below freezing around midnight Friday, and could reach 28 degrees just before sunrise Saturday, and will probably rise above freezing around noon. Of course, all of this is still two days away, and the forecast could change, but it might be a good idea to get your errands out of the way today and tomorrow.
Although the threat of freezing rain ends as things warm up Saturday afternoon, we’ll still see cloudy, wet weather typical of a wedge situation until Tuesday, when high pressure moves into the area. We’ll probably see a total of about 1/2 inch of precipitation throughout the period.
January is likely to end up being a dry month. We should normally have just over four inches of rain by the end of January; I’ve only recorded 1.14 inches of rain so far, with most of that recorded on January 14th. Hartsfield Airport has had 1.57 inches. Even if we get half an inch over the weekend, we will end the month with two fewer inches of rain than normal.
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