Thursday in Cobb County will be much like Wednesday, with storms in the forecast, and colder temperatures ushering afternoon and evening Halloween activities.
Cobb is included in a flood watch across much of north Georgia until 8 p.m. Thursday, according to the National Weather Service in Atlanta.
Here’s what the NWS issued earlier Wednesday afternoon:
There is a chance for flooding across northern Georgia as multiple rounds of rain could produce several inches of accumulating rainfall. Two to Four inches of rain are forecast along and north of the I-85 corridor, with locally higher amounts possible.
There is a marginal risk of severe thunderstorms across portions of northern and west-central Georgia, including the Atlanta metropolitan area. This marginal risk exists this afternoon and
evening, but will be increasing early Thursday morning. The primary threat will be damaging wind gusts associated with stronger storms, with an outside chance of a weak, brief tornado for far northwestern Georgia.
Thursday’s high temperatures are expected to be much like today, in the low 70s, and also with a 90 percent chance of rain in the Cobb area. The rain is expected taper off to around 60 percent Thursday night.
Friday will be sunny but colder, with highs in the high 50s, and that’s the forecast for the rest of the weekend as the rain clears out.
Lows will be just above freezing from Friday through Sunday, only in the high 30s.
Temperatures will be a little warmer next week, with highs in the 60s and lows in the 40s, but more rain will return by midweek.
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