Cooler temps and breezy winds highlight Tuesday

MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – While Tropical Storm Imelda is looking to take a good hard turn to the east and steer clear of the mainland, widespread cloud coverage will keep temperatures a few degrees below normal today. Highs in the upper 70s and low 80s combined with dewpoints in the 60s should make for comfortable conditions.  As Imelda works her way north, the system is interacting with the stationary front that brought us some showers and thunderstorms a few days ago. The squeezing of the isobars is giving us some gusty winds across most of north and Middle Georgia. Northeast winds at 10-15 mph could gust as high as 25 mph this afternoon before easing overnight. Tropical Storm Imelda is centered about 95 miles to the west of the central Bahamas, and is anticipated to move slowly northward through the short term period. By Tuesday morning, the center of Imelda is expected to be positioned a couple hundred miles to the southeast of the Georgia coast. Models are coming into better agreement that the storm will begin to turn eastward into the Atlantic on Tuesday, accelerating as it moves towards Bermuda. The increasing agreement in an eastward turn further away from the Georgia area begets increasing confidence that wind and rain impacts from Imelda will be minimal in north and Central Georgia.  A moist airmass will be in place across the area on Tuesday, with dewpoints in the mid to upper 60s. As temperatures  rise into the low to mid 80s, scattered showers and thunderstorms will develop on Tuesday afternoon. The highest chance for showers is in the eastern portions of the forecast area, in the closest proximity to Imelda, with progressively lower chances further west.