The First Alert Weather Day for Monday, March 16, has been extended from 4 a.m. through 1 p.m.
Models have discrete thunderstorms starting to form ahead of the main line of strong storms at roughly 4 a.m. These do bring the risk for severe weather, mostly in the far western counties though.
The threat for more widespread severe weather potential comes at around 6 a.m. This timeframe will likely be when the main line arrives to the western counties of SGA, but also when discrete thunderstorm activity ahead of the main line really starts to get going as well. Thunderstorms will be much more numerous by this time, and bring the risk for tornados, damaging winds pushing 70 mph, and hail over an inch in size across SGA.
The First Alert Weather Day for Monday, March 16, has been extended from 4 a.m. through 12 p.m.
Albany will likely see storms by 7 a.m., areas further east will see the strong line a little later in the morning hours.
The morning commute could get rough for SGA, so have multiple ways to receive weather alerts (weather radios, social media accounts such as WALB Weather, but also NWS Tallahassee is worth a follow, the WALB Weather App, and live TV broadcasts). Also, make sure you update your WALB News 10 app and turn on push notifications, as the news app was recently updated at the corporate level.
The severe weather threat lingers until early afternoon, around 1 p.m. A few showers could linger in the afternoon behind the main line of storms, but these pose no severe weather threat. Expect a harsh drop in temperature tomorrow as well. We begin the day in the 60s, and we will likely end the afternoon in the 40s.
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REST OF WORK WEEK:
A late season frost/freeze is forecast for Monday and Tuesday nights with freezing to sub-freezing wind chills. A Freeze Warning is in effect beginning late tonight in Southwest Georgia.
Highs will warm into the 50s Tuesday with plenty of sunshine and fair-weather clouds. A widespread freeze with some patchy frost is expected Wednesday morning. Temperatures will be in the 20s and 30s during the morning and warming up once again into the lower 50s.
This freeze may be more impactful to agriculture than usual given the prolonged period of warm antecedent conditions that has contributed to early planting and blooming.
Temperatures begin moderating late-week while dry conditions prevail through the weekend. Temperatures return to the 70s mid-week with 80s back in the forecast for the weekend.
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