Frigid weekend, wind chills fall into the 20s

Let's talk about the weather again. We've been relatively spoiled for November with mild temperatures, and it's about to start to feel like November. Oh, we're about to get a rude awakening as winter comes for a bit of an early visit. So it's like kind of a strange course correction. We've been well above average, and now we're about to be well below average. So get ready, folks. The roller coaster is about to take off. We're at the very top of this moment. In fact, temperatures pretty much at this moment have fallen out the 60s, and I have to be very, very honest with you. The 60s of today, they're not coming back. Tomorrow they're not coming back Saturday, Sunday, Monday and maybe by Tuesday, but it's looking more like Wednesday before we get a return to the 60s. So if you can deal with this on the top end, I think you're going to be able to bear with what is to come over the next few days. But that's once again, the high end of things will spend the majority of our overnight hours in the 20s and the 30s. Right now we're at 54 degrees, Scanton 50 and Blue Ridge 59 here in Atlanta, 57 in Noonan. But let's get to the numbers that will rock your boots. Let's go ahead and move through the evening here. The clouds and the precip are not going to really be a big factor at any point in time during the weekend. Yes, there's a flurry possibility for those of you across far northeast Georgia going into western North Carolina. But even that, you're not going to have much accumulation at all. In terms of the next few hours here, you can see here winds will continue to hustle out of the north and the west. And with those winds not really becoming quiet at all, The temperatures are going to fall fairly quickly. The winds are coming out of the north and the west, meaning that's a colder air being driven in by some fairly ferocious winds. And so at midnight tonight, it feels like it is about 46 degrees, despite just being a couple degrees or a degree below 50. Go up into the mountains, it's 37 degrees for what feels like temperature. We can still have winds that are going at about 15 miles an hour. That's a sustained wind, gusts easily topping 20 miles an hour. It's now Friday morning. This morning, we have to get out and go to work School again tomorrow. So this is why the change in the wardrobe is such a necessity. 39 degrees is what you'll read on the thermometer there in Rome, but it will feel like it's 34 degrees. Here in town, 35 degrees. Go out to Eaton, 39 degrees, 37 in Athens. Sunshine abounds so taking a peek out the window is not going to give you a good barometer as to what it actually feels like outside. It's now noon and recess is possible for the teachers even going out to get a quick lunch but you're going to be hustling in and out. It's now 43 degrees for a wind chill here in Atlanta 36 in Blairsville. This is peak sunshine for the day. Some clouds moving in as a second wave moves through to add a reinforcing shot of cold air. And look, there are a couple of flights that are trying to fly high in the mountains. And that's when that action starts is around six o'clock on tomorrow evening. And I think there's something that could fester through the overnight hours into Saturday morning. But this is what you wake up to Saturday morning. Another front has blown through the area. It doesn't pack with it really much moisture at all. But what it does is it gives us a reinforcing rash of cold air. And by the time you get to 6 a.m. on Saturday morning, it feels like it is 29 degrees here in town. 25, that feels like a number there in Blairsville. Go down to Thomaston, 26, 27 there in Eaton. Moving through the day Saturday, there's plenty of sunshine. The winds will start to settle down. So things are looking good for your tailgate plans out there in Athens. But the temperature still does not feel good. And it's certainly well below average for this time of the year. Forty six degrees here in Atlanta. As we go to bed on Saturday night going into Sunday morning, temperatures will still drop down into the 30s. But I think we will have stayed off a second night of sub freezing temperatures for the north metro. Will we drop to or below freezing here in Atlanta? There's a possibility. But I'm trying to be a bit more conservative with the numbers here, so we'll see how it all plays out. But once again, these are your wake up numbers for the next few days tomorrow morning is really the most bearable of it all. You're going to definitely need to thick coat for the weekend mornings. By afternoon temperatures are struggling to get and stay in the 50s. Jonathan thanks.