Flash Flood Watch issued for all of north Georgia starting Thursday night

ATLANTA — With more rain moving through north Georgia, a flash flood watch has been issued, including in metro Atlanta.

The watch is scheduled to go into effect at 7 p.m. Thursday and expire at 7 p.m. Friday, according to the National Weather Service.

The flash flood watch for the following counties goes into effect Thursday at 7 p.m.:

• Baldwin,  Banks,  Barrow,  Bartow,  Bibb,  Butts,  Carroll,  Catoosa, Chattahoochee, Chattooga,  Cherokee,  Clarke,  Clayton,  Cobb,  Coweta,  Crawford,  Dade,  Dawson,  DeKalb,  Douglas,  Fannin,  Fayette,  Floyd,  Forsyth,  Fulton,  Gilmer,  Glascock,  Gordon,  Greene,  Gwinnett,  Hall,  Hancock,  Haralson,  Harris,  Heard, Henry, Houston, Jackson, Jasper, Jefferson, Jones, Lamar, Lumpkin, Macon, Madison, Marion, Meriwether, Monroe, Morgan, Murray, Muscogee, Newton, Oconee, Oglethorpe, Paulding, Peach, Pickens, Pike, Polk, Putnam, Rockdale, Schley, Spalding, Talbot, Taliaferro, Taylor, Towns, Troup, Twiggs, Union, Upson, Walker, Walton, Warren, Washington, White, Whitfield, Wilkes,  Wilkinson

In the meantime, MARTA was reporting delays on the North-South line due to a loss of track power at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. As of 6 p.m., power had been restored, but delays continued.

“Power crews are still on-site to investigate what caused the loss of power,” spokeswoman Stephany Fisher told our partners at AJC.com. “Delays are ongoing but should lift within about 20-30 minutes.”

If you have students going back to school Thursday or Friday, you will definitely need to make sure they have an umbrella.

Students in Jefferson City and Chattooga County went back to school today.

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“After morning rain tomorrow, expect a long lull in rain. Most of the afternoon and evening Thursday will be dry and mostly cloudy,” Meteorologist Brian Monahan said. “The final storm in this series of storms moves in Thursday night through Friday.”

We could see 1 to 3 inches of rain before we dry out for the weekend.

Temperatures will remain mild, with highs in the upper 50s and lower 60s.

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