Tropical Storm

Remnants of Tropical Storm Beryl spinning across south Georgia

By Mike Morris 5-29-2012

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

The remnants of Tropical Storm Beryl continued to churn across extreme south Georgia early Tuesday, drenching the southern part of the state and bringing a chance of scattered showers to metro Atlanta later in the day.

At 5 a.m., Beryl was centered about 10 miles northwest of Valdosta, the National Weather Service said.

The storm, with sustained winds of 30 mph, was expected to take a turn toward the northeast and increase forward speed later in the day Tuesday, bringing the center of Beryl close to Savannah by
Tuesday evening and back over Atlantic waters by late Wednesday.

The storm was expected to dump as much as 5 to 10 inches of rain, with isolated amounts of 15 inches, over southeast Georgia and adjacent northern Florida.

Brief but at times heavy rain fell across parts of metro Atlanta Monday afternoon and evening as the outer rain bands from Beryl spread into north Georgia.

Channel 2 Action News meteorologist Karen Minton is calling for a 40 percent chance of scattered showers Tuesday afternoon and evening, diminishing to 20 percent on Wednesday before climbing back into the 40 to 50 percent range later in the week.

Minton said a cold front moving into north Georgia Thursday and Friday will bring a risk of strong, possibly severe, thunderstorms on Friday.

Highs will be in the mid-80s on Tuesday, low 90s on Wednesday and upper 80s on Thursday.