Arctic air brings wind and freeze alerts to North Georgia

Alright, well, let's move through the rest of our weekend. Make sure you have that winter coat handy. You're certainly going to need it during the afternoon. It's going to be cold and windy. Then during the overnight hours, we're going to be below freezing and dangerously cold. In the meantime, right now, 41 degrees at the airport, clear skies, calm winds for now coming in from the west northwest at just six miles per hour. But through this afternoon, those winds are going to start to gust up to 2030 miles per hour, and they're going to continue to usher in that cold Arctic air. That's where we're going to see our temperature. really fall. But the good news is our air is still comfortably dry. Now, as we take a look at our live Viper radar, this high pressure system centered over Colorado is what's allowing all of this Arctic air to push its way southward. And in its path, it's going to push its way through Georgia. So we're going to continue to stay dry, but we're also going to be very cold. So let's take a look at those wind gusts plus the temperatures. That's going to be our wind chill as we move through the rest of the weekend. This is the human impact. So if you're going out for Friday night football this evening around 7, 8 o'clock. It's going to feel like the lower to middle 30s out there. It's going to be very cold. Make sure you have that blanket, that jacket, even beanies and the gloves as you're heading out for football. But then if you're going out late night, Friday night, this is where we're going to start to see those... Feels like temperatures fall into the 20s. Early Saturday morning, if you have Saturday morning plans, you're looking at feels like temperatures in the 20s all across north Georgia. Then we do it all over again for the back half of our weekend. As you move through your Saturday late afternoon, early evening, it's going to feel like the 30s. As you move through late Saturday night, it's going to fall even further. And then as you're waking up early Sunday morning, this is again where it's going to feel like the 20s across a good portion of the viewing area. So because of that, we have... We have widespread freeze alerts. We have both the freeze warning and a freeze watch in place. Really what this means is over the next couple of nights, we're going to look for those overnight air temperatures, not the feels like temperatures. Your actual air temperatures will fall to as low as 25 to 29 to 30 degrees. So that's where we're going to look for that widespread frost and freeze the first of the season, right on par with where it should be. But we're going to look to protect your people, pets, plants and pipes as we head through the overnight freeze. We're going to start to rebound to where we should be this time of year with those afternoon highs back in the middle 60s. Justina, all right.