With a Winter Weather Advisory in effect from 1 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 19 until 1 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 20, officials in North Georgia counties say they’ll continue to monitor the forecast.
Some North Georgia counties that could see snow include Rabun, White and Lumpkin, though current projections indicate the snowfall could stop just short of Habersham County.
After a weather meeting earlier this morning, Lumpkin County Director of Emergency Services David Wimpy said officials have continued to monitor the situation. He said officials will again reconvene this afternoon to reassess the potential for snowfall.
“They’re not calling for hardly anything for us,” he said. “We might get a dusting and that’s probably going to be about it. But we’re setup from the last (winter storm) we went through, so it’s just a matter of getting the chains out and putting them back on the trucks.”
To the northeast, White County spokesperson Bryce Barrett said officials there are doing the same, though, at this point, he said not even an inch of snow is projected.
“We’re not forecasted to get major impacts, so we’re watching the situation,” Barrett said. “If forecasts increase, so will the likelihood that we’ll take necessary steps. Right now, we’re just monitoring.”
In Rabun County, EMA Director Brian Panell said road and safety crews are on standby, if necessary, as officials there also keep an eye on the weather.
“We’ll address it as we see what’s going to happen,” he said.
Forecast
In total, the Winter Weather Advisory has been issued for for Chattooga, Catoosa, Dade, Dawson, Fannin, Floyd, Gilmer, Gordon, Lumpkin, Murray, Pickens, Rabun, Towns, Walker, White, Whitfield and Union Counties, according to Now Habersham weather forecaster Tyler Penland.
The advisory is in effect from 1 a.m. Wednesday through 1 a.m. Thursday – when around 1/2 inches of snow accumulation is possible with isolated higher amounts above 2,500-feet of elevation.
Penland’s latest forecast predicts a low pressure system over the southeast sliding east through the overnight hours of Tuesday, bringing widespread precipitation to the area between 4 a.m.-6 a.m. Wednesday morning.
Most of the region could see a brief start as snow or sleet before transitioning to rain.
