Strong thunderstorms are expected across north and central Georgia today and tonight. Some storms may bring damaging winds, heavy rain, and dangerous lightning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What It Means For You:<\/strong> Eastern Georgia faces the highest risk for severe weather this afternoon and evening. You should stay alert for weather warnings and have a plan to get indoors quickly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What’s Happening:<\/strong> The National Weather Service says scattered storms will continue through Saturday before calming down. Stay Safe:<\/strong> Weather spotters don’t need to activate, but officials want reports of any severe weather through weather.gov\/atlanta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Sources:<\/strong> National Weather Service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n[mailerlite_form form_id=53]\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Strong thunderstorms are expected across north and central Georgia today and tonight. Some storms may bring damaging winds, heavy rain, and dangerous lightning. What It Means For You: Eastern Georgia faces the highest risk for severe weather this afternoon and evening. You should stay alert for weather warnings and have a plan to get indoors […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":948,"featured_media":201570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"behind","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":[12611],"class_list":["post-233112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weather","tag-storm","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233112","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=233112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=233112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=233112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=233112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\u2022 Friday and Saturday storms could also produce heavy rain and damaging winds
\u2022 Lighter storm activity is expected Sunday through Wednesday<\/p>\n\n\n\n