Heavy rain and thunderstorms will sweep across Georgia this weekend, putting parts of the state at risk for flooding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\ud83c\udf27\ufe0f What’s Happening:<\/strong> A storm system will bring rain to Georgia starting Saturday, with the heaviest downpours expected between 2 and 10 a.m. Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \ud83d\uddfa\ufe0f Where It Hits:<\/strong> Northwest Georgia faces the highest flood risk. Recent rains have already soaked the ground in this region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u26a0\ufe0f What to Watch:<\/strong> The National Weather Service expects scattered thunderstorms Saturday night. While widespread flooding isn’t likely, some areas could see flash flooding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u23f0 Timeline:<\/strong> Light rain starts Saturday. The main line of storms moves through early Sunday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \ud83c\udfe0 Stay Safe:<\/strong> Keep your phone charged and weather alerts on. Never drive through flooded roads – turn around, don’t drown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \ud83d\udd1c What’s Next:<\/strong> Forecasters will monitor conditions as the system develops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \ud83d\udcad Remember The Golden Rule:<\/strong> Check on elderly neighbors and those without easy access to weather updates. Share this information with friends and family in northwest Georgia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n[mailerlite_form form_id=5]\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Heavy rain and thunderstorms will sweep across Georgia this weekend, putting parts of the state at risk for flooding. \ud83c\udf27\ufe0f What’s Happening: A storm system will bring rain to Georgia starting Saturday, with the heaviest downpours expected between 2 and 10 a.m. Sunday. \ud83d\uddfa\ufe0f Where It Hits: Northwest Georgia faces the highest flood risk. Recent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":948,"featured_media":217209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6067],"tags":[14887,10022,12611],"class_list":["post-217208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weather","tag-flood","tag-flooding","tag-storm","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=217208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=217208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=217208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=217208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}