Hurricane Dorian is gathering speed as it moves over the Bahamas and toward the Florida Atlantic Coast, and south Georgia is bracing for the storm.
The metro Atlanta area isn’t expected to be affected by the storm, which the National Weather Service is rating at Category 3 as it’s about 600 miles from Florida. The map above was released by the NWS Friday morning.
Dorian is expected to make landfall Tuesday morning in a wide projection cone that’s prompted a state of emergency for 12 counties in south Georgia.
Gov. Brian Kemp issued the declaration Thursday afternoon for the following counties: Brantley, Bryan, Camden, Charlton, Chatham, Effingham, Glynn, Liberty, Long, McIntosh, Pierce, and Wayne.
The Jacksonville NWS map below, also from Friday morning, shows increasingly wet and windy conditions along Florida’s First Coast and the Georgia coast.
The NWS forecast for Cobb and metro Atlanta doesn’t call for much in the way of any impact from Dorian. The weekend and Labor Day will be dry, hot and sunny, with highs in the low 90s.
There’s 30 percent chance of rain on Sunday, and a 20 percent chance returns Tuesday and could remain for the rest of the week.
Lows will hover around 70 and highs are forecast for the high 80s and low 90s next week.
The state has issued a number of links that are good in the case of any kind of emergency:
- View updates from Georgia Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency here.
- Visit Ready Georgia for weather alerts and emergency preparedness tips.
- Follow Georgia 511 for real-time traffic information.
- Learn what to do before, during, and after a flood here.
- Report power outages by contacting your power provider. The two main providers in Georgia are:
- Call your local non-emergency police line to report a downed tree in a main road.
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