Atlanta residents can anticipate a week of mostly sunny skies and climbing temperatures, according to the latest weather reports. The National Weather Service predicts an unbroken stint of sunshine with highs hovering above the low 80s, starting today with a high near 84, and a slight east wind around 5 mph. It’s sunglasses and sunscreen weather, folks, with a steady warm-up taking us toward the mid-80s by Tuesday.
Evening conditions are slated to be mostly clear, lows in the mid-60s provide a crisp counterpoint to the day’s warmth, with calm winds offering little relief from the humidity; the nighttime brings little change with southeast winds around 5 mph calming down as Atlanta heads into the early hours. The beat of sunny days will continue through Wednesday and into Thursday, the mercury is predicted to rise a notch further each day, flirting with 90 degrees by Thursday afternoon.
Hotlanta indeed, but by Friday things start to get a little muddled, forecasters over at the National Weather Service indicate Atlanta may get a break from the heat as chances of showers and thunderstorms roll onto the scene, this development ushers in a 40% chance of precipitation that day. The skies will partially clear in the evenings through the weekend, though the threat of rain remains, moodily looming with chances of showers and thunderstorms between 30% and 50% from Friday night through Sunday.
This alternating pattern of celestial light and rumbles of thunder, it reminds Atlantans of the capriciousness of spring weather here in the South—with conditions cycling between clear skies and tentative thunder as the week unfolds. The potential rainfall over the weekend may offer a gentle, if not inconsistent, respite from the ascending heat, as the city oscillates between partly sunny and the rumbles of thunderstorms, leaving its people to ponder the rhythm of rain and whether it might dampen their outdoor plans.
