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The rains have stopped and flood watches that covered North Georgia on Wednesday are but a memory, but Friday could bring some severe weather to the region. || 11Alive Weather
Meteorologists are predicting an active 2010 hurricane season with above-normal threats on the U.S. coastline.
The Flood Watch remains in effect for portions of north Georgia - including Metro Atlanta - through Thursday morning. || 11Alive Weather
Authorities say at least five homes and a barn owned by the county government were destroyed in a tornado in western Oklahoma.
A 26-foot wave smashed into a cruise ship carrying nearly 2,000 people in the Mediterranean on Wednesday, smashing glass windshields and killing two passengers, according to officials and news reports.
The snow may be gone across most of the metro area, but drivers are still advised to watch out on the roads. Shaded areas and some side roads may still be slick. || Upload your weather pictures! || Photo Gallery
Snow fell across north Georgia as far south as metro Atlanta Tuesday morning, and some counties in the northeast portion of the state closed their schools.
More than 200,000 homes and business are still without power in the Northeast after last week's winter storm.
France's interior minister says the death toll from a violent storm with hurricane-force winds that lashed western France has risen to 47. At least six deaths have been reported in other countries.
A winter storm lumbering up the Atlantic coast is delivering a powerful dose of wet snow, heavy rain and damaging winds near 50 mph in the Northeast for a second straight day.
Another big storm is moving up the East Coast.
After being spared the brunt of early February snowstorms that buried the Atlantic coast, the Northeast is bracing for a double whammy of winter.
Snow and ice pelted parts of the South on Monday for the second time in a
matter of days, glazing Tennessee highways and reaching into northern
Alabama.
Snow accumulations are expected in the higher elevations of north-central and northeast Georgia overnight Monday night. || 11Alive Weather
A light wintry mix of precipitation is possible Monday night and Tuesday night across portions of north Georgia. || 11Alive Weather
A few snow flurries mixed in with the light rain over parts of metro Atlanta this afternoon.
| WEATHER GALLERY |
Some parts of the Mid-Atlantic could see up to two feet of snow by the weekend.
The National Weather Service is predicting heavy
rain in metro Atlanta, and there's a winter storm watch for
northeast Georgia.
The storm is the third major system to carry heavy snow, after a near-blizzard delivered up to 20 inches of snow from southern Virginia to southern New England in mid-December
Heavy rain is possible across much of North and Central Georgia Thursday night and Friday. || 11Alive Weather Page
If Georgia's groundhog can be believed, the
chilly winter is about to give way to an early spring.
North Carolina's governor says the winter storm that left parts of the Southeast and mid-Atlantic states a frozen mess left four dead in her state.
The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm watch for parts of the north Georgia mountains from Friday evening through Saturday afternoon.
A storm system that brought ice, snow and strong winds moved out of the Dakotas Tuesday and roads reopened, but many problems remain.
Enjoy the sunshine now -- rain and even snow could be headed for parts of Georgia this weekend
About 100 students are spending the night at their high school in southwestern Minnesota after a blizzard made it too dangerous for them to go home.
A home on Martina Drive in Buckhead is heavily damaged Monday when high winds sent a pine tree crashing through the roof.
A home on Martina Drive in Buckhead is heavily damaged Monday when high winds sent a pine tree crashing through the roof.
Flood warnings are still in effect for a number of rivers and creeks across North Georgia after this weekend's rains.
Flood warnings have been issued for Big Creek, Suwanee Creek, Yellow River and Oconee River.
Forecasters warn conditions will remain volatile in Southern California as rainfall from a violent storm passes over.
Another Pacific storm has been pounding California with heavy rain and snow.
Police officers and firefighters are going door-to-door in the Tujunga neighborhood of Los Angeles, asking residents of about 200 hillside homes to evacuate by morning.
Most residents of the Los Angeles foothill communities who were told to leave their homes due to debris-flow fears amid heavy rains are being invited to return.
Rain to the south will be moving in Saturday. There is also a wind advisory in effect from 1pm Saturday through 6am Sunday.
Mary Lynn Bell, 85, has seen a lot of cold days but none like the latest round of cold days, and none without heat before.
Some people were just getting out of their neighborhoods on Monday for the first time in four days after being iced in.
The Georgia Department of Transportation has been hit hard by budget cuts. However, it insists a manpower shortage did not hamper their response to icy roads.
North Georgia's weather is returning to normal. Some icy patches remain, and a number of schools remain closed.
The South is still an icebox this morning. Temperatures in Atlanta have stayed in the 30s over the weekend with lows in the teens. Atlanta's zoo is closed because trails are iced over.
The average high for Atlanta is in the 50 degrees with lows in the 30s.
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We had a long stretch of freezing weather with temps at or below freezing for 68 hours in the metro Atlanta area. We briefly moved above freezing Sunday afternoon with a high of 34.
Florida is getting ready for another cold blast and chilly rain.
Just walking outside in the below freezing temperatures can be hazardous enough--but imagine Atlanta's homeless who don't go inside and spend days and the nights outdoors. They rely on the charity of strangers to survive.
11Alive Photojournalist David Brooks spent Friday morning along Willeo Road in Roswell. Click here to watch as several cars slid down the roadway, spinning around and into other cars and trees along the road.
And click here to watch what happened overnight in Metro Atlanta, including the aftermath of a 27-car pileup on I-285 near Hartsfield-Jackson Airport early Friday morning.
The driving conditions in Metro Atlanta on Friday were like a Dickens novel -- tale of two road systems.
A 27 car pileup early Friday morning just south of Atlanta left three people injured, and was just one in a whole string of accidents that stranded motorists all over Metro Atlanta after an overnight snow storm. || 11Alive Traffic || Video of Drivers Spinning Out On I-20
Anywhere from a light dusting to an inch of snow accumulated on the ground in Metro Atlanta as the season's first snowfall rolled through. || Air Travel Affected || 11Alive Traffic
Georgia officials are asking motorists to avoid driving on the state's icy roads.
Georgia D.O.T. engineers stopped traffic today to get a close up view of why water is seeping onto the downtown connector through the joints in the pavement.
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