URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
350 PM EST MON FEB 8 2010
...SNOW ACCUMULATIONS EXPECTED IN THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS OF NORTH
CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA TONIGHT...
.AN APPROACHING LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM FROM TEXAS WILL SPREAD RAIN
OVER THE STATE TONIGHT AND TUESDAY. TEMPERATURES WILL COOL ENOUGH
TO SUPPORT A CHANGE OVER FROM RAIN TO SNOW ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL
AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA BEGINNING LATE THIS EVENING AND CONTINUING
THROUGH MUCH OF TUESDAY MORNING. THE SNOW THREAT SHOULD END BY
NOON ON TUESDAY AS TEMPERATURES BEGIN TO WARM AND THE DEEPER
MOISTURE BEGINS TO PUSH EAST DURING THE AFTERNOON.
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INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...DAHLONEGA...CLEVELAND
350 PM EST MON FEB 8 2010
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 10 PM THIS EVENING TO
NOON EST TUESDAY...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A WINTER
WEATHER ADVISORY FOR LIGHT SNOW ACCUMULATIONS...WHICH IS IN EFFECT
FROM 10 PM THIS EVENING TO NOON EST TUESDAY FOR AREAS GENERALLY
ALONG AND NORTH OF A CARTERS TO DAWSONVILLE TO CLEVELAND LINE...
AND ESPECIALLY FOR ELEVATIONS OF 1500 FEET OR HIGHER.
LIGHT RAIN...POSSIBLY MIXED WITH SLEET OR SNOW AT TIMES WILL BEGIN
TO PUSH INTO NORTH GEORGIA THIS EVENING. AS TEMPERATURES BEGIN TO
FALL TOWARD FREEZING LATER THIS EVENING...EXPECT THE LIGHT RAIN TO
CHANGE OVER TO MAINLY SNOW BETWEEN 10 PM AND MIDNIGHT...ESPECIALLY
IN THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS OF NORTH GEORGIA. ACCUMULATIONS OF 1 TO 3
INCHES OF SNOW ARE POSSIBLE FROM 10 PM THIS EVENING THROUGH TUESDAY
MORNING IN AND AROUND THE ADVISORY AREA. THE SNOW WILL LIKELY CHANGE
OVER TO MAINLY RAIN BY EARLY TUESDAY AFTERNOON AS TEMPERATURE
PROFILES WARM ABOVE FREEZING.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SNOW MEANS THAT PERIODS OF SNOW
COULD CAUSE PRIMARILY TRAVEL DIFFICULTIES. BE PREPARED FOR SNOW
COVERED ROADS AND LIMITED VISIBILITIES...AND USE CAUTION WHILE
DRIVING TONIGHT AND TUESDAY MORNING.