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Temperatures to rebound into the 50s Tuesday

By Severe Weather Team 2 and Ross Cavitt
By Severe Weather Team 2 and Ross Cavitt

ATLANTA — Temperatures will be warming up Tuesday after days of freezing weather.

Severe Weather Team 2’s Karen Minton said the high will be in the low 50s in the afternoon, although some areas are still dealing with ice and snow.

"Slick roads due to ice and snow are still a problem in Rabun and Habersham counties," Minton said.

A Winter Weather advisory for northeast Georgia is in effect until noon Tuesday.

Several school districts are closed again Tuesday because of icy roads. Among them is Cherokee County.

Channel 2’s Ross Cavitt spoke with Alan Luckey just after he'd met with a police officer about his mailbox being run over by a car sliding on the ice.

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"They made it up the hill, ignored us. They slid down the hill and tried again and then they drove off. A hit-and-run," Luckey told Cavitt.

Luckey showed Cavitt how slick the roads out of his subdivision had become.

Although temperatures made it above freezing mid-day, police said that actually only made some stretches of road more dangerous.

In Cherokee County, deputies and officers ended up working wrecks all day.

"Since Friday, we've had about 180 accidents countywide," Lt. Jay Baker of the Cherokee County Sheriff's Office told Cavitt.

Baker said deputies have been busy, including helping a mail truck that flipped on ice, briefly trapping its driver.

Deputies told Cavitt that drivers get overconfident on the roads that have melted, but there are stretches as dangerous as ever.

"We were hoping everything would melt today; we did get above freezing, we did get a little bit of sun, but you can see where the shade is the ice is just not leaving," Baker said.

That is keeping the road crews busy and the students out of school, at least one more day.

Big warm up for the rest of the week

By Wednesday, a front with much warmer air will start to move in and will stay across the southeastern part of the country throughout the weekend.

Minton said temperatures will range from the high 60s to the low 70s through at least Sunday, bringing an end to the winter weather that has impacted north Georgia since Friday.

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