Marine Weather and Tide Forecast for Flowery Branch, GA

SHORT TERM
(This afternoon through Tuesday)
Issued at 136 PM EST Mon Dec 8 2025

Could we see a break from the dreary conditions today? Maybe! Rain from last night has made its way well out of the area, though lingering cloudy conditions remains behind the front. The good news is that winds have begun to pick up signally a change to post frontal conditions and clouds should continue to lift and dissipate over the coming hours. The rate at which we clear will determine exactly how warm our temps get today, however we will likely remain on the low end of forecast highs for today given how models tend to handle the timing of regime changes like this.

No more precipitation is expected through Wednesday morning and continued dry air will hopefully give us some sunny afternoons from here out. Tomorrow morning could see a brief return to dreary cloudy conditions with near surface winds briefly bringing weak wedge conditions, however low level flow could quickly recover returning to SW by tomorrow afternoon as the sfc high moves eastward. Dry conditions and potentially sunny afternoons may drive greater diurnal temperature swings with lows each night in the 30s and highs climbing into the upper 50s tomorrow (depending how fast we shift the wedge out of here). Either way, the weather will remain relatively benign through the short term outlook.

LONG TERM
(Wednesday morning through next Sunday)
Issued at 136 PM EST Mon Dec 8 2025

To kick off the long term forecast period on Wednesday, much of southern CONUS will be situated under northwesterly flow at the mid- levels. Expect this pattern to continue well into the weekend, owing to persistent troughing across eastern Canada and the Great Lakes. A stronger shortwave traversing the broader flow around the base of the trough will kick a (mostly) dry cold front across the forecast area Wednesday into Thursday, ushering in a brief push of drier air.
Currently, rain chances with the aforementioned front are less than 5%, so expecting minimal impacts to sensible weather before it fizzles out. Highs will be rather mild, topping out in the mid-50s to lower 60s.

Dry conditions will linger through at least Friday, when a disturbance trekking across the Northern Plains into the Midwest will allow a swath of comparably moist air to clip portions of northwest Georgia. Global model guidance still exhibits modest disagreement on the strength of the disturbance (with the Euro trending stronger and with a more substantial surface mass response), and it remains be seen if any moisture can be squeezed out from such weak forcing. For now, trends have favored a drier and drier solution, with chances for showers at just 10-20% overnight Friday into Saturday. After a brief return to slightly cooler than average temperatures Thursday, Friday looks to be the warmest day of the week, with highs in the mid-50s to mid-60s.

The bigger weather story as we move into the weekend is the potential for the coldest weather of the season thus far, supported by an Arctic surface high spreading across the midsection of the country and settling atop the Southeast. Rather significant spread exists amongst ensemble guidance, with 25th and 75th percentile high and low temperatures differing by as much as 15-20 degrees. This would mean the difference between lows in the teens to near 20 versus lows in the 30s, and highs in the 30s to lower 40s versus highs in the 50s to lower 60s. For context: the deterministic NBM forecast temperatures (both high and low!) for Saturday, Sunday, and Monday are close to/exceed the 75th percentile. The catalyst for this difference appears to be the proximity of north and central Georgia to the core of the cold air -- the Euro drags the coldest air atop the Mid-Atlantic, while the GFS favors the airmass becoming more diffuse/ taking a more northward path. All this to say: despite a fairly mild and seasonable work week, this weekend looks to be cooler, and we may see a significant dip in forecast temperatures as we approach the weekend as model guidance gets a better handle on the location of key features.

AVIATION
(00Z TAFS)
Issued at 637 PM EST Mon Dec 8 2025

VFR conditions across much of the region as CIGs around 025-040 have finally thinned out. However, guidance has remained consistent in conditions dropping back to IFR or even LIFR levels overnight as a large area of 005-015 CIGs moves in from the east, reaching the ATL area by around 10z and lingering through 15Z.
Conditions improve back to VFR after 16-17z with mostly clear skies. NW winds currently at 8-10 kts weaken to light and variable overnight, and turn generally out of the SW at 4-8kts by 18Z Tuesday.

//ATL Confidence
00Z Update
Medium to high confidence in the low CIGs overnight. High confidence for all other elements.

Culver

PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS
Athens 31 47 32 57 / 0 0 0 0 Atlanta 32 51 35 59 / 0 0 0 0 Blairsville 24 46 29 52 / 0 0 0 0 Cartersville 27 51 32 59 / 0 0 0 0 Columbus 31 53 32 62 / 0 0 0 0 Gainesville 32 48 33 56 / 0 0 0 0 Macon 34 52 31 61 / 0 0 0 0 Rome 30 54 35 61 / 0 0 0 0 Peachtree City 28 52 32 59 / 0 0 0 0 Vidalia 34 51 31 61 / 0 0 0 0

FFC WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES
None.