Is ‘wintry mix’ heading for South Georgia?
Published 2:53 pm Thursday, January 2, 2025
VALDOSTA — Cold weather is on the way to South Georgia, along with — maybe, just maybe — a little more, forecasters said Thursday.
Cold fronts coming through the area are expected to drag temperatures below normal for several days, said Molly Merrifield, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service’s Tallahassee, Fla., office.
High temperatures for Valdosta are expected to remain in the low 60s with lows mostly in the mid-to-low 30s through the weekend, the weather service forecast shows.
A cold front moving through Monday could change all that, bringing a 60% chance of rain and setting the stage for overnight lows in the upper 20s later in the week, she said.
The weather service forecast shows midweek highs in the Azalea City in the upper 40s.
Valdosta might get another shot at rain toward the end of next week, said Tom Kines, senior meteorologist for the private forecaster AccuWeather.
Merrifield said that toward the end of next week, there was a chance — “not a big chance, but a non-zero chance” — that South Georgia could see some “wintry mix.”
“Wintry mix” refers to a mixture of rain, ice and snow.
Kines said the wintry mix could occur “if everything goes sour,” but said the end of next week was too far out for accurate forecasting.
On the severe weather front, Kines didn’t see much of a chance for widespread rough weather, but Merriweather said there was a slight chance Monday with the elevated rain chance.