The National Weather Service expanded a Winter Weather Advisory overnight. The FOX 5 Storm Team is ready to help you track when snow could potentially hit your area.

Where will it snow in Georgia?

What we know:

Despite quiet skies to kick off Sunday morning across Georgia, we’re keeping an eye out for snow and black ice.

That Winter Weather Advisory is now extending farther north and west than originally planned, including areas east of Atlanta, Troup County and LaGrange.

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The advisory remains in effect until 1 p.m., though FOX 5 Storm Team meteorologist Alex Forbes says he expects any precipitation to end by late morning, around 11 a.m.

Our Storm Team says areas within the advisory zone could see anything from scattered flurries to up to one inch of snow before conditions improve. The highest chances for accumulating snow are expected south and east of Atlanta, with cities such as Danielsville, Monroe, Covington, Eatonton, Jackson, and Greenville among those being closely monitored.

At around 5:30 a.m., a FOX 5 Atlanta viewer called the newsroom reporting snow flurries in Jasper County. Snow flurries were confirmed in Locust Grove at around 6 a.m.

If it’s snowing in your area, you can submit photos and pictures to newstipsatlanta@fox.com for a chance to see them live on FOX 5 Atlanta or FOX LOCAL.

Snow chances increase farther south into central Georgia, including Macon and Warner Robins, where slightly higher totals are possible. The National Weather Service has issued a Winter Storm Warning for parts of central Georgia, where up to three inches of snow could fall.

In Covington, early morning temperatures hovered around 38 degrees. FOX 5 crews reported no snow reaching the ground before sunrise, though colder air and incoming moisture could allow it to begin falling by mid-morning.

Over in Eatonton, temperatures remained near 40 degrees early Sunday with light rain reported at times. Meteorologists noted that rain falling above the surface could help cool the atmosphere, increasing the chance for snow later in the morning. Snow there was expected to taper off by late morning.

Road conditions across Henry County and along Interstate 75 near Locust Grove remained dry and passable early Sunday, with traffic flowing normally. However, temperatures were dropping, and officials urged drivers to remain cautious as conditions could change quickly.

Is Georgia prepared for snow?

What we know:

Georgia Department of Transportation crews have been preparing for several days and are stationed across the state. GDOT officials say they are concentrating resources in central Georgia, where it’s more likely to see measurable snowfall.

Meteorologists also warned that while skies are expected to clear and sunshine return by the afternoon, temperatures will drop below freezing overnight. That could lead to the formation of black ice on roads and bridges early Monday morning.

Residents are encouraged to stay updated through the FOX 5 Storm Team and to report any snowfall or hazardous conditions as the winter weather system moves through the region.

What you can do:

Here are some things you can still do now to prepare:

• Restock emergency supplies. Check flashlights and batteries, and buy shelf-stable food. Ensure all prescriptions are filled, as ice storms often cause power outages.
• Prepare for communication outages. Internet and cellphone service may fail, particularly in heavily wooded areas prone to storm damage.
• Winterize plumbing. Insulate outdoor pipes and locate the main water shutoff valve. Frozen pipe incidents are most common in January and February.
• Use heaters safely. Inspect generators, fireplaces and space heaters to ensure proper venting. Never run a generator indoors; doing so creates a risk of fatal carbon monoxide poisoning.
• Test detectors. Check smoke and carbon monoxide detectors. Replace batteries before increasing the use of heaters or fireplaces.
• Check on neighbors. Contact older residents, people with disabilities or those using powered medical equipment to establish an assistance plan.
• Protect animals. Bring pets inside during freezing temperatures. Ensure livestock and outdoor animals have shelter and unfrozen water.
• Pack a car kit. If travel is necessary, keep blankets, chargers, a shovel, snacks and sand or kitty litter for traction in the vehicle.
• Stay informed. Download the FOX 5 Storm Team weather app  and enable notifications for real-time updates.
• Monitor closings. Check the FOX 5 Atlanta closings page for school and business updates. Administrators should verify their registration status to post updates quickly.

Will it snow in North Georgia?

What we know:

Right now, we’re not anticipating much, if any, winter weather activity in North Georgia.

However, remember: Any rain with freezing temperatures could potentially result in black ice by Monday morning. Drive with care.

Snow was confirmed just across the state line in Auburn, Alabama, where flurries were visibly falling early Sunday. FOX 5 meteorologists said that activity could reach parts of west Georgia within about 30 minutes, depending on temperatures and moisture levels.

Snow in Georgia: What’s closed?

What we know:

As of 6 a.m., there have been no church or business closures reported to FOX 5 Atlanta.

Track winter weather closures throughout Georgia live here.

What does wintry mix mean?

The backstory:

To help you navigate the forecast, here is a breakdown of the most common winter terms:

• Snowfall: This occurs when the entire atmosphere, from the clouds down to the ground, remains at or below freezing (32°F). Snowflakes are collections of ice crystals that cling together as they fall.
• Graupel (Snow Pellets): Often mistaken for hail or “Dippin’ Dots,” graupel forms when supercooled water droplets coat a snowflake, creating a soft, opaque, and crushable pellet. Unlike hard ice, graupel will easily disintegrate if you touch it.
• Sleet (Ice Pellets): Sleet starts as snow, melts into rain in a warm layer of air aloft, and then refreezes into hard ice pellets before hitting the ground. You’ll know it’s sleet because it bounces when it hits your windshield or the pavement.
• Freezing Rain: This is perhaps the most “sinister” type of weather, according to FOX 5 reporting. It falls as liquid rain but freezes instantly upon contact with surfaces that are at or below freezing. This creates a glaze of ice on trees, power lines, and roads.
• Ice Storm: Per the National Weather Service, an official “Ice Storm” occurs when freezing rain results in at least 1/4 inch of ice accumulation. This is the threshold where significant damage to trees and power lines typically begins.
• Icy Roads: These occur when any form of frozen precipitation—sleet, freezing rain, or melted/refrozen snow—bonds to the pavement. Freezing rain is particularly dangerous because it creates “Black Ice,” a transparent coating that makes the road look merely wet when it is actually a skating rink.
• Snow Flurries vs. Showers: FOX 5 Atlanta defines flurries as light snow falling for short durations with little to no accumulation. Snow showers, however, fall at varying intensities and are more likely to leave a dusting or coating on the ground.

These are not all the terms that may be used today.

NORCROSS, Ga. – A Norcross-based food company has issued a major recall for ready-to-eat grilled chicken breast fillets after a third-party laboratory detected the presence of Listeria monocytogenes.

Frozen chicken recalled

What we know:

Suzanna’s Kitchen is recalling approximately 13,720 pounds of the fully cooked product. While the items were produced in Georgia, they were shipped to distribution centers for foodservice sales across seven states: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Missouri, New Hampshire, North Carolina, and Ohio.

Recall hits commercial kitchens mostly

Dig deeper:

The recall specifically targets 10-pound cases produced on Oct. 14, 2025. Look for the following identifying marks:

• Product: 10-lb. cases containing two 5-lb. bags of fully cooked grilled chicken breast fillets with rib meat.
• Lot Code: 60104 P1382 287 5 J14 (located on the side of the case and the individual package).
• Establishment Number: P-1382 (inside the USDA mark of inspection).

What you can do:

As of the Jan. 16 announcement, there have been no confirmed reports of illness. However, the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is concerned that some of these products may still be in commercial freezers or refrigerators. Distribution centers and foodservice locations are urged not to serve these products. They should be thrown away or returned to the place of purchase.

What is listeria monocytogenes?

Why you should care:

Listeria monocytogenes can cause listeriosis, a serious infection that primarily affects older adults, people with weakened immune systems, and pregnant women.

Symptoms: Fever, muscle aches, headache, stiff neck, confusion, loss of balance, and convulsions.

Special Risk: For pregnant women, the infection can cause miscarriages, stillbirths, or life-threatening infections for the newborn.

Timeline: Symptoms can appear anywhere from three to 70 days after eating contaminated food.

Boston, Georgia
 — 

Franz Rowland has heard President Donald Trump endlessly brag about a roaring economy, but he’s seen few signs of it from his cotton farm here in southern Georgia.

“Trump says, you know, be patient. The farmer is going to be better than ever,” Rowland said, standing on the edge of his field about a dozen miles north of the Florida-Georgia state line. “Well, you better hurry up because we can’t stand this much longer.”

Rowland voted for Trump, hoping a stronger economy and better trade deals would follow. He doesn’t entirely blame the president’s policies for one of the worst years he’s ever had farming, but he said the administration hasn’t made it any easier to make a living.

“The economy may be doing better for some people, but on the farm it ain’t,” said Rowland, 72, speaking slowly and measuring his words. “With the prices like they are today, we’re not going to make any money, we just try to figure out a way to not lose so much.”

As the president begins his second year back in office, 58% of Americans call the first year of his second term a failure, a new CNN poll finds, with 55% saying Trump’s policies have worsened economic conditions in the country.

Similar sentiments came alive during conversations this week with voters in Georgia, a state critical to the fall’s midterm elections.

One of the most closely-watched Senate races in the nation, a wide-open contest for governor and competitive state legislative races are already shaping up here as a referendum on Trump’s agenda and how the state has fared over the past year.

“We’re still treading water,” said Florence Allen, the owner of a toy store in Macon who has ridden a yearlong roller coaster of the Trump administration’s trade policy. “My economy is not hot. My costs have not gone down on anything, not here at the store and not at home.”

Inside William’s Fun Smart Toys, which Allen has run for 20 years, the fallout from the president’s on-again, off-again tariffs are apparent on shelf after shelf. She has stopped carrying some items, swallowed the duties on other goods and passed along rising costs to customers when she feels like she has no other choice.

“Something that was $15 on my shelf suddenly went to $30,” Allen said. “One of my philosophies when I’m looking at new toys, if I wouldn’t buy it to give to my own grandchildren, I don’t need it here.”

When Trump visited Macon two days before Election Day in 2024, he pledged to “handle inflation” and “get energy costs so low.” A week earlier at another campaign stop in Georgia, he pledged: “I will cut your energy prices in half within 12 months — 50 percent, half, 5-0.”

Asked whether those promises had been fulfilled and her energy bill was now half, Allen said: “No, it’s gone up.”

High energy costs have emerged as one of the most contentious political issues in Georgia, largely attributed to a rising demand for electricity to power new data centers. Last fall, voters expressed their anger by knocking off two Republican members of the public service commission and electing two Democrats, the party’s first statewide wins to state-level offices since 2006.

Georgia has long stood as a leading barometer for Trump’s performance.

He won the state in 2016. He lost it in 2020, which placed it at the center of unfounded claims of widespread election fraud and an unprecedented attempt to overturn a presidential race.

He won it again in 2024, defeating Kamala Harris by 115,000 votes after falling 11,779 votes short to Joe Biden.

Along the way, Trump also flipped Baldwin County for the first time, ending a 20-year winning streak for Democratic presidential candidates in the central Georgia county about 100 miles southeast of downtown Atlanta.

“He gets an A+ from me,” said Janice Westmoreland, a retiree and longtime Republican activist, adding that she feels more secure with Trump in office. “He’s working hard. He has a plan and he’s implementing that plan.”

She embodied a sustained sense of excitement reflected in interviews with several loyal Trump supporters in downtown Milledgeville.

“I think he’s doing great,” said Tony Agee, who works as a grading contractor. “I’m tired of the United States getting pushed around.”

Elinor Carrick, a military veteran, said she believes Trump has restored stability to the White House and law and order to American cities. Asked about his handling of the economy, she said: “Looking at where my 401k is, I’m going to give him an A. It’s done pretty well.”

Carrick said she gave Trump credit for his policies at home and abroad, but added that she was closely watching the foreign policy of his second term.

“I don’t want us to be the world’s police force, however, I do want us to take care of our own and I think by what they did in Venezuela was a very good step,” Carrick said. “I do not want any long drawn-out entanglements, but at the same time I recognize that there are times you have to go on offense. You can’t always play defense because it does nothing but weaken you.”

For all of the many challenges facing Trump as he enters his second year back in power, the ability to keep his winning coalition together will be at the center of the fight for control of Congress as voters give their verdict on the actions of the first half of his second term.

Sweeping cuts made across the federal government, including about one-third of the workforce at the Atlanta-based CDC, are expected to be at the heart of political arguments in the midterm elections as Democrats seek to make Republicans accountable.

“It just felt like someone came in and just knocked all the pins over and just left, without any consideration to what they were doing or what they were cutting,” said Vi Le, who lost her job in violence prevention. “Many of us have been working at CDC for decades through multiple administrations, Republican and Democrat, and it didn’t matter.”

She added: “I don’t think that voters voted for this.”

‘Somebody wasn’t looking out for us’

For 48 years, Rowland has worked his family’s farm in Thomas County, which sits on the state’s southern border with Florida. He grows cotton, oats and corn, hoping a diversified portfolio helps him weather a financial crisis that is looming over wide swaths of rural America.

“We’re going to try to plant the crops that’s going to allow us to lose less money,” Rowland said. “Not make money.”

From his home nearly 800 miles away from the nation’s capital, he has watched the Trump administration’s trade policy with bewilderment.

“I don’t know who dropped the ball in Washington, to allow these prices – this trade – to diminish like it has, but somebody dropped the ball,” Rowland said. “Somebody wasn’t looking out for us.”

He is among the farmers who will soon receive a payment from the government, part of an $11 billion Farmer Bridge Assistance Program, which is intended to help offset losses from 2025 and projected losses for this year. He’s grateful for the assistance, but he echoes the sentiment of many farmers who call for fair trade, not more aid.

“I’m not against tariffs,” he said, “but right now, they’re not helping us.”

As he thinks about whether his two sons and grandsons will be able to make a living farming in the next generations ahead, he sounds as disappointed as he is dismayed.

“I thought by now, we would have some really good trade. I thought it would be better,” Rowland said. “I don’t see that light at the end of the tunnel and I’m worried about what’s going to happen out here.”