Ware Mechanical alert: Flood watch tonight through Saturday for Northwest Georgia; two inches due. New: Hour by hour forecast.

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This is news we didn’t need. The National Weather Service is issuing a flood watch for Northwest Georgia and surrounding counties as a new storm churns out way. We’re still recovering from the last rough of high water over the Christmas holidays.

Rainfall:

• Rome, at 8 p.m., had just 0.06 of an inch of rain.
• Cartersville was at 0.30 of an inch.

The flood watch details:

FROM 3 A.M. FRIDAY THROUGH 7 A.M. SATURDAY

SOILS REMAIN EXCESSIVELY WET ACROSS NORTH GEORGIA WITH AVERAGE STREAMFLOWS OF CREEKS AND RIVERS ABOVE NORMAL.

WIDESPREAD RAIN, OCCASIONALLY HEAVY AT TIMES, WILL DEVELOP OVER THE WATCH AREA LATE TONIGHT AND CONTINUE TO FRIDAY EVENING.

STORM TOTAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS AROUND TWO INCHES CAN BE EXPECTED GENERALLY NORTH OF INTERSTATE 20 IN GEORGIA. THE RAIN WILL TRANSITION TO FREEZING RAIN…SLEET OR SNOW FRIDAY NIGHT AS COLD AIR BEGINS TO DOMINATE THE REGION.

FLOODING OF STREAMS…CREEKS AND SMALL RIVERS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE EXPECTED RAINFALL. ALSO…TEMPORARY STREET FLOODING COULD OCCUR DUE TO POOR DRAINAGE AND CLOGGED STORM DRAINS WHERE ANY HEAVY RAIN OCCURS.

The forecast, hour by hour:

 

 

Weekend forecast:

Tonight: Rain. Low around 41. East wind 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New precipitation amounts between three quarters and one inch possible.

Friday: Rain. High near 42. East wind 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New precipitation amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible.

Friday Night: Rain before 10pm, then rain and snow between 10pm and 1am, then snow likely after 1am. Low around 31. East wind 5 to 10 mph becoming northwest after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 15 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New snow accumulation of less than one inch possible.

Saturday: A 20 percent chance of snow before 1pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 37. Northwest wind 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.

Saturday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 24. Northwest wind 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.

Sunday: Sunny, with a high near 49.

Sunday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 29.

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