Georgia Snow & Winter Weather Recap | Sunday Updates

ATLANTA — Parts of Georgia saw snow Sunday, stretching from the southwest across central Georgia and as far to the northeast as Morgan and Greene counties.

In the mid morning hours, around 7:30 a.m., we saw the heaviest snowfall south of metro Atlanta and north of Macon — particularly in Monroe County, Upson, Lamar and Butts counties. South Henry County was the most that south metro Atlanta really saw.

Then snow then moved east of that cluster, falling in Jasper/Morgan/Putnam/Greene counties south of Athens.

Farther to the south, snow fell beginning in Columbus and then across Macon and Warner Robins, south as far as Cordele and as far east as Milledgeville, Sandersville and Dublin. As of 9:30 a.m. it hasn’t moved as far east as cities like Augusta, Waynesboro and Swainsboro.

The 11Alive Weather Impact Team issued a Weather Impact Alert from 4 a.m. Sunday morning to noon with the potential for light snow, mainly to the southeast of Atlanta.

11Alive will track live updates all Sunday morning across the Peach State:

• 1:12 p.m. | We can officially tie a bow on this one today. There’s a look at sunny Sandersville, where it’s all melting away.

• 12:19 p.m. | If it did snow where you are, we hope you enjoyed it, because it’s all out there melting about now.

• 12:02 p.m. | Slush mix visibly still falling in Swainsboro and Jenkins County, probably about the last holdouts here because it looks clear in Waynesboro and up toward Augusta.

• 11:25 a.m. | Also bit of that heavy slush mix you can see in Columbia County. Not really sure we can call this snow anymore.

• 11:20 a.m. | You can see on some of the GDOT cams that it’s coming down as a heavy slushy mix in places like Emanuel and Jenkins counties in southeast Georgia. What you might call a flurry in Waynesboro. Appears to pretty much just be raining in Vidalia. So that might be the last little hurrah for this system.
• 11:00 a.m. | Still going pretty strong in Sandersville, bit falling down in Dublin still, to the north there’s a little bit also still falling in Thomson. You can also see now snow on the GDOT cams in Swainsboro and a little bit falling in Waynesboro. Unclear how long it might keep up as the day warms up across the state though.

• 10:44 a.m. | 11Alive Meteorologist Nicole Hartford picked up some preliminary snowfall totals for some of the cities near us that saw it this morning: Barnesville 1.6 inches, Thomaston 1.5 inches, Monticello 3.0 inches.

• 10:12 a.m. | We’re also now simulcasting our sister station in Macon, WMAZ, for their continuing snow coverage. You can see that in the video player above this story.
• 10:11 a.m. | Latest we can see is it’s still snowing decent in McDuffie County, and stretching southwest along a line with heavier snow in Sandersville, in Washington County, as far down as Dublin, in Laurens County.
• 9:58 a.m. | While the snow event is basically over for us farther north in Georgia around Atlanta, it’s still very much active for our fellow Georgians down in Macon and you can follow our Macon sister station WMAZ’s coverage here.
• 9:13 a.m. | The eastward movement is holding strong, as there’s snow falling now in Thomson in McDuffie County. We’ll see if it reaches Augusta. You can also see snow right now in Lincolnton, north of Augusta. Very snowy in Sandersville currently but not yet going farther to the east in Waynesboro.
• 8:53 a.m. | Appears Sandersville in Washington County is getting snowfall too now. But not really Swainsboro or Dublin. So you’ve got the northern end of it that’s gone west-east from Troup County and Thomaston, over to Butts County, up through Eatonton and Greensboro, and this southern end that’s gone from Columbus to Macon and Warner Robins and Milledgeville.
• 8:50 a.m. | We can see on traffic cams the snow has continued moving east. It’s petering out in Eatonton/Greensboro where it was going strong, now coming down pretty good in Crawfordville in Taliaferro County. Also still coming down in Macon and Milledgeville.
• 8:42 a.m. | Beautiful scene at Jackson Lake from Andrew Thomas Elison in our 11Alive Weather Impact Team Facebook group.

• 8:40 a.m. | Forgive the bad screengrab-drawing effort, and this is far from exact but should give you a rough idea about where snow has fallen in Georgia today.

• 8:30 a.m. | It’s more outside our market but if you go south, places like Milledgeville, Warner Robins and Macon of course are seeing snow. Going east, doesn’t look to be forming for Augusta at this time. Also doesn’t seem to be anything in Dublin or Swainsboro, if you want kind of a geographic fence on this.
• 8:25 a.m. | Still good snow coming down in Eatonton and Greensboro.
• 8:11 a.m. | We showed you earlier a car dealership in Forsyth, Georgia (Monroe County) where it was snowing — here’s how it looks now, definitely a winter wonderland day for the folks down there.

• 8:08 A.M. | The snowfall has ramped up in Macon now. Here’s a look at The Weather Channel’s Molly McCollum:

• 7:57 a.m. | And here’s Eatonton. So we saw this snow really develop first down in Upson this morning, it’s moved northeast-ish now across that corridor north of Macon and south of Atlanta across through Butts, Monroe counties, now it’s around Putnam and Greene. Word from 11Alive Meteorologist Nicole Hartford is this will basically be out once it moves on. So they’ve got a snow day in west-central, central and east-central Georgia, not really gonna see it in inner metro Atlanta.

• 7:52 a.m. | A look at Greensboro, Georgia:

• 7:50 a.m. | Hard to keep up but here’s where we’ve definitely seen snowfall so far: Upson, Lamar, Pike, Monroe, Butts, south Henry, Putnam, Morgan, Greene. Haven’t seen a specific report out of Jasper but it’d stand to reason there too.
• 7:48 a.m. | Lovely in Pike County from our 11Alive Weather Impact Team Facebook group. Thanks to Aimee Baker!

• 7:47 a.m. | Here’s that look at Morgan, Greene and Putnam counties as you move east.

• 7:43 a.m. | So, just to try to recap what we’re seeing: Nice snowfall seems to be clustered north of Macon and south of metro Atlanta. We’re seeing it in Upson, Pike, Lamar, Monroe, Butts, Henry counties. Also now seeing it east of that cluster in Putnam, Greene and Morgan counties.
  
• 7:42 a.m. | Nice shot of snow from Janet Huffman in Barnesville in our 11Alive Weather Impact Team Facebook group.

• 7:40 a.m. | National Weather Service says it’s about to get going in Macon:

• 7:33 a.m. | And in Henry County, as well. Seems the I-75 corridor south of Atlanta and north of Macon is getting it good.

• 7:30 a.m. | Good snowfall in Butts County on I-75 too:

• 7:25 a.m. | More from along I-75 in Monroe County:

• 7:21 a.m. | Here’s a GDOT camera on I-75 in Monroe County. Seems like north-northeast of Macon, Upson-Lamar-Monroe counties, is where a lot of the heaviest snow is so far.

• 7:20 a.m. | An upgrade to the Winter Storm Warning now includes Upson and Lamar counties in our market.
• 7:15 a.m. | Here’s a video of that  Forsyth snowfall:

• 7:05 a.m. | Ton of snowfall in Forsyth, Georgia (the city, not Forsyth County, this is down in Monroe County north of Macon). Reports of snow around McDonough as well.

• 6:55 a.m. | Still coming down pretty good in Thomaston.

• 6:50 a.m. | Got a nice report of some snow falling in Senoia from our 11Alive Weather Impact Team Facebook group!

• 6:45 a.m. | Latest report includes snow around Athens.

• 6:40 a.m. | Appears there was some snow down in Henry County for a minute too.

• 6:30 a.m. | Quite the snowfall going on in southeast Alabama and the Florida panhandle right now, as well.

• 6:30 a.m. | Few GDOT cameras showing a steady snowfall now in Columbus area:

• 6:25 a.m. | Latest from the National Weather Service Atlanta station:

• 6:20 a.m. | Also appears to be a few flakes flashing across GDOT cams in Harris County, on I-185 to the east of Hopewell.
• 6:05 a.m. | 11Alive Meteorologist Nicole Hartford is live with an update, and here’s a little video of that snowfall in Thomaston:

• 6:00 a.m. | And some snow in Thomaston can definitely be seen falling on a GDOT camera at West Thompson Street.

• 6:00 a.m. | Early reports of flurries/snowfall in west-central Georgia, including LaGrange and Thomaston. A traffic camera on I-85 east of LaGrange does seem to show a little smattering of something on the ground.

• 5:45 a.m. | 11Alive Meteorologist Nicole Hartford is setting up for a live update at 6 a.m. that we’ll stream on 11Alive+ and in the video player above this story. We’re looking out for snow developments closer to 7 a.m.
• 5:30 a.m. | Good morning! A quick scan of traffic cameras in the Macon area doesn’t indicate any snowfall as of yet. Overnight the Winter Weather Advisory that already included parts of south metro Atlanta, such as Henry and Newton counties, has expanded eastward to include the Athens area — Walton, Oconee, Clarke, Oglethorpe, Madison, as well as including the eastern state line with South Carolina from Burke County up through Augusta to Lincoln County. The Winter Storm Warning also expanded southwest from where it was concentrated around Macon and now includes Albany and Alabama state line counties Early, Clay, Quitman and Stewart.