Initiated by a cold front, a line of thunderstorms has been working through North Georgia ever since noon today. A few of these thunderstorms have the chance to turn severe, in which severe wind gusts, winds greater than 58 mph, could be possible across the region. A few severe thunderstorms have already formed in Northeast Georgia, but fortunately they have weakened and started moving out of our region towards the Carolinas. As the line worked into our region, it broke up bringing more of a scattered thunderstorm threat to our region. Fortunately, inadequate wind shear is the keeping a cap on how strong these storms can get today, so little severe weather will be expected for the rest of the day. However, some isolated thunderstorms could briefly become severe before they quickly rain themselves out in regions southeast of Atlanta and areas in eastern Georgia extending as far south as Augusta. The main severe weather threat associated with these storms is damaging wind gusts.
By tonight, these storms will be out of our region leaving us partly cloudy going into the overnight hours. As this cold front stalls south of our region, most of us will see a decline in humidity and feels like temperatures for your 4th of July weekend. Athens and the surrounding area saw near 110 degree feels like temperatures today, where as tomorrow, the feels like temperatures will recede into the upper 90s. As for rainfall, the stalling cold front will cause isolated thunderstorms for most of the weekend, but most storms will be south of our region. A rainy start to the working week is expected where Monday's high will be in the upper 80s along with an increase in humidity expected to start early next week.
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