1/6/2025
WT Staff
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January 6, 2025 1032 am EST
Wind Advisories in effect for north and central GA, Chatham County and Tybee Island
Urgent Weather Message issued by NWS Peachtree City at 344 am Mon Jan 6
WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM EST TUESDAY...
West winds 10 to 20 mph with gusts up to 35 mph expected in portions of central, east central, northeast, southeast,
and west central Georgia. Gusty winds will blow around unsecured objects. Tree limbs could be blown down and a few power outages may result.
Winds this strong can make driving difficult, especially for high profile vehicles. Use extra caution.
Impacting Banks-Madison-Oglethorpe-Wilkes-Greene-Taliaferro-Putnam-Hancock-Warren-Jones-Baldwin-Washington-Glascock-Jefferson-Taylor-
Crawford-Bibb-Twiggs-Wilkinson-Johnson-Emanuel-Chattahoochee-
Marion-Schley-Macon-Peach-Houston-Bleckley-Laurens-Treutlen-
Stewart-Webster-Sumter-Dooly-Crisp-Pulaski-Wilcox-Dodge-Telfair-
Wheeler-Montgomery-Toombs Counties, including the cities of Mcrae, Preston, Eatonton, Ellaville,
Soperton, Fort Moore, Vienna, Abbeville, Eastman, Crawford,
Swainsboro, Greensboro, Dublin, Lumpkin, Louisville, Cochran,
Sparta, Warner Robins, Macon, Homer, Mount Vernon, Gray, Vidalia,
Crawfordville, Comer, Montezuma, Warrenton, Wrightsville,
Milledgeville, Jeffersonville, Toomsboro, Cordele, Buena Vista,
Alamo, Hawkinsville, Fort Valley, Sandersville, Americus, Butler,
GIbson, Washington, and Roberts.
Urgent Weather Message issued by NWS Charleston SC at 651 am Mon Jan 6
WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON...
Southwest and west winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts up to 40
mph expected in Coastal Chatham County. In South Carolina,
Beaufort, Coastal Colleton, Coastal Jasper, and Tidal Berkeley
Counties. Gusty winds will blow around unsecured objects. Tree
limbs could be blown down and a few power outages may result.
Motorists traveling across the area will experience blustery conditions on elevated bridges and overpasses. Winds this strong can make driving difficult, especially for high
profile vehicles. Use extra caution.
Impacting Coastal Chatham County in Georgia, Beaufort-Coastal Colleton-Coastal Jasper-Tidal Berkeley in South Carolina, including the cities of Edisto Beach, Wilmington Island, Daniel Island, Tybee Island, Chelsea, Jasper, Beaufort, Levy, and Hilton Head Island
Streamflow Situation from the network of river monitors of the USGS throughout the watersheds of Georgia
A record high water level for this date found in Sope Creek, the highest recorded streamflow in forty years at the monitoring site near Marietta. According to provisional data, the creek took a rapid rise from just over a foot deep to more than six feet deep overnight. The rise started around 8 pm last night, receding since 8 this morning. This provisional data is to be confirmed with USGS, more to follow. Sope Creek is a tributary of the Chattahoochee River, this watershed now fully recovered from drought. Streamflows throughout the northwest rose over the weekend, from the below normal rating of Friday, to above normal ratings today. No active flooding is recorded in the reference network, and no extreme high or low flows.
The drought map has cleared the one area remaining for the Gulf of Mexico basin over the weekend, Flint River watershed is no longer rated below normal. On the Atlantic side of the drainage divide, Satilla-Altamaha basin still shows below normal in the St. Mary's river waterhed through Charlton County.
There is a light drizzle, 58 degrees at Warner Robins Air Force Base with a wind advisory in effect for parts of north and central GA until 7 am tomorrow. Up to a quarter inch of rain is expected before noon as the wind drops the thermometer down to 42 by the evening commute today. The west wind anticipated 15 to 20 mph, with gusts up to 30 mph. It is mostly cloudy, 61 at Hunter US Army Airfield near Savannah, the Charleston SC local forecast office calling for high near 69 with showers this afternoon, up to a tenth of an inch coming between 1pm and 3pm. A wind advisory applies to coastal Chatham County and Tybee Island, the south wind around 22 mph swinging west, could gust as high as 33 mph.
Safe Drinking Water Advisories
Walker County: LaFayette issued a BWA and water conservation order last week for customers of the Lee School Road water treatment plant.
High turbidity in the water necessitated the boil order, water should boil water for at least one minute at a rolling boil. City of Lafayette provides potable water service to 16 thousand residential and business customers from two water treatment plants supplied from groundwater wells in the Coosa River Watershed.
See how Georgia's drinking water facilities SDWA compliance compares to Ohio, New York, Louisiana and California, here.
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