Atlanta braces for 39 degrees on Friday

During the week before the weekend because it's going to be very, very chilly out there and the winds will be hustling as well as this cold air comes making its big intrusion into the southeast. Let's go ahead and work through what you can expect as we close out what will be a week in which it would feel like winter despite the start of a very early fall like beginning. That said, it's the timing. The timing of this is looking like Friday going through Monday morning in which we'll feel the The brunt of those temperatures that are either near freezing or below freezing across the area. So Friday morning, Saturday morning, Sunday morning and Monday morning. Obviously, the coldest spots will be our northernmost spots, the north metro going through the foothills into the mountains. But it's all north Georgia that gets in on the frosty conditions. So our frost is all but certain. However, the freeze, I think there could be some communities on the far south side that managed to avoid sub freezing temperatures, but I want you to go ahead and protect your plants and bring in your pets for the next few nights, especially starting Friday night and keep that action going on as we go through the weekend into early next week because it's going to be fairly frigid out there no matter how you shake it. At this point, the Fox 5 Storm Team's forecast is saying we're going to drop down to probably the low 40s for Friday morning. But I just want to go ahead and put this out here because this is one model, the European model, that suggests that it could be as low as 39 degrees here in Atlanta. This is 7 o'clock Friday morning, so I know we keep on talking about the weekend is going to be very winter-like in terms of the feel. But keep in mind, most of our weekends don't start on Friday morning. We have to get out to work. We have to go to school. So if you're the person in your world who have a business or you are over something in terms of the AC and the heating units, keep in mind, you cannot wait to get these things going. Sometime Thursday you need to go ahead and start firing this stuff up on Wednesday, especially if it takes awhile to heat up your building because by Friday morning the dirty work in terms of the fronts. Wake is going to already be done, so it will feel like 33 degrees as we go throughout the day. The temperatures are going to try to climb into the 50s, but that will be short lived. They're back down the winds still hustling, therefore it will read 37 degrees on the thermometer. That's 8 o'clock on Saturday morning, 30 degrees. 31 as it feels like temperature 27 in Blairsville 29 low 33 there in Gainesville. OK, there's more of the same temperatures tried to come back into the 50s Saturday afternoon going out to Athens 55 degrees. That's not bad for football weather, but still it's going to be chilly out there, especially when the sun drops. By 8 o'clock Sunday morning, heading out to worship services. Keep that in mind. Once again, get these heating systems revved up. 31 degrees, it feels like temperature. That's here in Atlanta, 32 in Thomaston, 34 in Milledgeville. I think this is the worst case scenario, but even if you add a couple degrees to any of these temperatures, it's going to still have a sting to it. In terms of the here and now, that is not our problem. We're at 58 degrees. It feels fairly mild and comfortable outside. Tonight, we'll shave about maybe six, seven, eight more degrees off the mercury to start out at. 48 tomorrow. We'll quickly grow through the 50s into the 60s. We'll have clouds moving in and out. thicker clouds during the second half of the day, and that's when we get our best chance for rain. Temperatures will likely sneak into the lower 70s. Today we posted a high of 74 degrees. We probably won't be as high tomorrow because the clouds and we'll likely get some isolated showers through the overnight hours. But those showers are done by midday on Thursday for sure. We bring out some sunshine, but the winds will be hustling. And by the time you rise Friday morning, that 42 will definitely feel like it's in the mid 30s near freezing temperatures here in town, certainly below freezing or freezing to the north.