The National Weather Service revised its snowfall totals Friday evening showing parts of northeast Georgia could receive 8 to 12 inches of snow on Saturday. However, expected totals for metro Atlanta have gone down slightly. The metro area could see anywhere from half an inch to 5 inches of snow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What’s Happening:<\/strong> The forecast map shows snowfall predictions ranging from no measurable snow in southwest Georgia to 8 to 12 inches in northeast Georgia. Snow will begin late Friday night and continue through Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What’s Important:<\/strong> Eastern Georgia is forecast to receive the highest totals. Union is forecast to receive 5 to 7 inches. Franklin, Blairsville, and Athens are forecast to receive 3 to 5 inches. Gainesville and Washington are forecast to receive 2 to 5 inches. Augusta is forecast to receive 2 to 4 inches. <\/p>\n\n\n\n How This Affects Real People:<\/strong> Cold temperatures will cause snow to accumulate on roadways, creating hazardous travel conditions Saturday. Snow covered roads will remain through Sunday due to continued cold temperatures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What Happens Next:<\/strong> Snow will begin late Friday night over far north Georgia and spread southward through Saturday morning, then taper off through Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The National Weather Service revised its snowfall totals Friday evening showing parts of northeast Georgia could receive 8 to 12 inches of snow on Saturday. However, expected totals for metro Atlanta have gone down slightly. The metro area could see anywhere from half an inch to 5 inches of snow. What’s Happening: The forecast map […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":948,"featured_media":242552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"above","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":[9153],"class_list":["post-243758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weather","tag-snow","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243758","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=243758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=243758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=243758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=243758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}