ATLANTA — The coldest temperatures since January move into north Georgia and the Atlanta area during Thanksgiving Weekend and to start next week.
We're tracking cold, Arctic air masses that will send low temperatures into the 20s and 30s and highs that won't get out of the 40s some days.
The cold air first arrives after a Thanksgiving Day cold front.
By the early morning hours on Black Friday, wind chills will be down in the 20s.
Temps rebound into the upper 40s and low 50s during the afternoon Friday. But once the sun sets, the chill takes hold again. Wind chills drop off from the 30s into the 20s in the evening. This includes out at Sanford Stadium for the Georgia-Georgia Tech game.
Saturday morning's wind chills drop into the low to mid 20s in the metro and upper 10s in the mountains. The forecast low in Atlanta is 31, which would make for Atlanta's first freeze of the season. The last sub-freezing temperature we had was back in February.
Over the weekend, afternoon highs struggle to top 50 degrees.
As reinforcing cold air pushes in, lows fall into the 20s for early next week with wind chills colder than that. It will be a very cold start back to school after the long holiday weekend! The last low in the 20s for the city of Atlanta was in mid-January!
