388 FXUS62 KFFC 051817 AFDFFC Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Peachtree City GA 217 PM EDT Fri Jun 5 2026 ...Afternoon Area Forecast Discussion... .KEY MESSAGES... - Dry weather and seasonal temperatures persist through Saturday. - Diurnally driven showers and storm chances return next week. && .SHORT TERM... (This afternoon through Saturday) Issued at 216 PM EDT Fri Jun 5 2026 Highs in the mid to upper 80s with relative humidity falling into the upper 40's this afternoon. As a result pleasant weather is expected to continue under high pressure. Winds out of the S will become SW and ease to less than 5 mph through the day before becoming light and variable during the overnight hours. Another pleasant day tomorrow, with temperatures heating into the upper 80s and low 90s as some of that southeast summer experience starts to filter back in. Tomorrow will mark the last day in this otherwise dry and pleasant pattern before we get a change in atmosphere on Sunday. For more information, please see the long term below. && .LONG TERM... (Sunday morning through next Thursday) Issued at 216 PM EDT Fri Jun 5 2026 Long term forecast picks up on Sunday with sad news - Spring in June is over and reality comes crashing back to us in the form of Gulf moisture return. Dewpoints will have steadily been creeping upward the past few days, but the expectation is that mid to upper 60s Tds for the afternoon will once again join the party across north and central Georgia by Sunday, bringing with it some diurnally drive rain and thunderstorm chances across north Georgia where a little better forcing will be present. For the next several days of the long term, the CWA will be underneath a large upper level ridge that will have a relatively strong trough on the Atlantic side and a weak wave undercutting it towards the Great Plains. This will favor a surface high sitting just off the coast that should continue pumping moisture into the area that is aided by the disturbance to the west. Diurnal chances of showers and thunderstorms will likely be in place each day through Thursday as a result. No widespread severe weather is expected given lack of forcing, but any storm in Georgia during the summer is capable of briefly reaching severe thresholds. Daily chances may vary somewhat from the current forecast given how "worked over" the atmosphere is from any given day and easily we can recover in the upper levels. && .AVIATION... (18Z TAFS) Issued at 131 PM EDT Fri Jun 5 2026 A SCT CU field at 5k ft is expected this afternoon after 15Z, though VFR conditions will continue through the TAF cycle. Winds will be tricky through the day as they will linger out of the SE before becoming SW after 02Z. //ATL Confidence...18Z Update... High on all elements Vaughn && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... Athens 61 88 66 88 / 0 0 0 0 Atlanta 64 87 69 86 / 0 0 0 10 Blairsville 58 82 63 81 / 0 0 10 20 Cartersville 62 88 67 85 / 0 0 10 30 Columbus 63 90 68 89 / 0 0 0 10 Gainesville 61 85 66 84 / 0 0 0 10 Macon 62 89 66 90 / 0 0 0 0 Rome 60 87 66 84 / 0 0 10 30 Peachtree City 61 88 67 86 / 0 0 0 10 Vidalia 64 91 67 92 / 0 0 0 0 && .FFC WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... None. && $$ SHORT TERM...Vaughn LONG TERM....Lusk AVIATION...Vaughn