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URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
305 AM EST FRI JAN 28 2005

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CLARKE-CLAYTON-COBB-COWETA-DADE-DAWSON-DE KALB-DOUGLAS-FANNIN-
FAYETTE-FLOYD-FORSYTH-GILMER-GLASCOCK-GORDON-GREENE-GWINNETT-HALL-
HANCOCK-HARALSON-HEARD-HENRY-JACKSON-JASPER-JEFFERSON-JONES-LAMAR-
LUMPKIN-MADISON-MERIWETHER-MONROE-MORGAN-MURRAY-NEWTON-NORTH FULTON-
OCONEE-OGLETHORPE-PAULDING-PICKENS-PIKE-POLK-PUTNAM-ROCKDALE-
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305 AM EST FRI JAN 28 2005

...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 9 PM THIS EVENING TO 4 PM EST 
SATURDAY...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A WINTER STORM WARNING ALONG
AND NORTH OF A LINE FROM LAGRANGE TO THOMASTON TO SANDERSVILLE FROM
FRIDAY EVENING UNTIL SATURDAY AFTERNOON. THIS INCLUDES THE ATLANTA
AND ATHENS AREAS.

A STRONG AREA OF HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD DOWN THE EAST SIDE OF THE
APPALACHIANS TODAY...BRINGING COLDER AND DRIER AIR INTO NORTH AND
CENTRAL GEORGIA. MEANWHILE RAIN OVER THE MID SOUTH WILL MOVE EASTWARD
INTO GEORGIA OVERNIGHT. SURFACE TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TO DROP TO
FREEZING OR BELOW OVERNIGHT AND CONTINUE DURING THE DAY SATURDAY.
THIS COULD LEAD TO A PROLONGED PERIOD OF FREEZING RAIN. WHILE THERE
COULD BE A BRIEF PERIOD OF SLEET AT THE ONSET OF PRECIPITATION...AND
THERE COULD BE SOME SNOW MIXED IN OVER NORTHEAST GEORGIA...THE
PRIMARY THREAT WILL BE SIGNIFICANT ICE ACCUMULATIONS. SOUTH OF THE
ATLANTA AND ATHENS AREAS...ICE ACCUMULATIONS WILL BE NEAR 1/4 INCH.
FROM ATLANTA AND ATHENS NORTHWARD 1/4 TO 1/2 INCH OF ICE IS
POSSIBLE...WITH AMOUNTS CLOSER TO 1/2 INCH OR GREATER POSSIBLE OVER
THE FAR NORTHEAST.

ON SATURDAY TEMPERATURES WILL RISE ABOVE FREEZING ACROSS CENTRAL
GEORGIA IN THE MORNING...CHANGING THE PRECIPITATION BACK TO ALL
RAIN...BUT OVER NORTH GEORGIA TEMPERATURES WILL NOT WARM
SIGNIFICANTLY...LEADING TO THE FREEZING RAIN CONTINUING WELL INTO THE
DAY SATURDAY. TEMPERATURES SHOULD BEGIN TO WARM UP ABOVE FREEZING
OVER NORTH GEORGIA LATE SATURDAY AFTERNOON OR SATURDAY EVENING.  

A WINTER STORM WARNING IS ISSUED WHEN SEVERE WINTER WEATHER IS
EXPECTED TO OCCUR. HEAVY ICE MAY ACCUMULATE IN THE AFFECTED AREAS
CAUSING HAZARDOUS DRIVING CONDITIONS. TRAVEL SHOULD BE AVOIDED IN THE
WARNING AREA AS ROADS WILL BECOME TREACHEROUS OR IMPASSABLE. ALSO ICE
ACCUMULATIONS ON TREES AND POWER LINES COULD CAUSE EXTENDED POWER
OUTAGES. 

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR THE MEDIA FOR THE LATEST
INFORMATION CONCERNING THIS WINTER WEATHER SITUATION.


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