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Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Peachtree City GA 638 AM EDT Fri Apr 26 2024

New 12Z Aviation Discussion

SHORT TERM
(Today through Saturday)
Issued at 429 AM EDT Fri Apr 26 2024

Currently starting to see the wedge begin the descent into Georgia and it should continue through the morning moving through Athens by mid morning. This will ultimately lead to cooler temperature over northeast Georgia with highs in then mid 60s to low 70s as the low level cloud cover dominates. The wedge should mostly stay just northeast of downtown ATL but cloudy skies are still expected for much of the area. Light showers caused by an associated short wave moving through the pattern are expected to affect north GA today generally north of Rome and Gainesville with trace accums possible.
Gusty winds will begin to affect the area later this afternoon into evening with gusts generally up to 25mph with areas of north Georgia up to 30mph. This is caused by the pressure gradient caused due to the wedge building in where winds are expected to stay elevated overnight.

Hernandez

LONG TERM
(Saturday night through Thursday)
Issued at 429 AM EDT Fri Apr 26 2024

At a glance:

-Hot for late April

-No significant chance of precip; but we may see Pulse Convective season kick off early by the middle of next week.

Weird to talk about considering it's only April but the Atlantic Ridge has set up through the long term and we'll likely see a pattern that we usually see in mid summer. Temps will gradually be on the increase and by the time we reach the middle of next week much of the CWA will be knocking at 90s door. Fortunately, west winds should prevent us from having to discuss topics like Heat Indices and apparent temperature as dewpoints will remain on the dry side. All that being said, daytime highs in the long term will run anywhere between 5 and 10 degrees above normal with overnight lows at 8-12 degrees above normal.

The only significant chance we have for precip will be Tuesday when a weak shortwave in the ridge breaks over northern GA. Best chance for pops will remain north of I-20 but even those are capped at slight. Following that, every day in the afternoon may see a pop-up thunderstorm somewhere in the CWA given the temps and lack of any discernible upper level flow.

Looks like summer has come early.

Vaughn

AVIATION
(12Z TAFS)
Issued at 634 AM EDT Fri Apr 26 2024

BKN mid level clouds continue to filter into the area which are expected to stick around through the morning. Wedge begins to build in this morning affecting ATL as early as 17-18z as CIGs lower to SCT/BKN050 before lifting in the evening. Expecting lower clouds to start building in overnight tomorrow into tomorrow morning into the MVFR range. Gusty winds from the E/SE up to 20kt are also possible beginning this afternoon and continuing through the overnight.

//ATL Confidence
12Z Update
Medium on MVFR tomorrow morning and CIGS this afternoon with the wedge.
High on all other elements.

Hernandez

PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS
Athens 58 78 57 80 / 10 0 0 0 Atlanta 62 77 60 80 / 10 0 0 0 Blairsville 55 71 55 75 / 10 0 0 0 Cartersville 61 79 59 81 / 10 0 0 0 Columbus 65 83 62 84 / 10 0 0 0 Gainesville 60 75 58 79 / 10 0 0 0 Macon 62 82 60 82 / 0 0 0 0 Rome 63 79 59 82 / 10 0 0 0 Peachtree City 62 79 59 81 / 10 0 0 0 Vidalia 63 81 61 81 / 0 0 0 0

FFC WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES
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