First we had a Winter Storm Watch issued on Friday. This morning around 4:45 AM that was upgraded to a Winter Storm Advisory. Around Noon today, that was upgraded to a Winter Storm Warning. See details below:
Earlier this morning, the National Weather Service in Peachtree City, Georgia issued a Hazardous Weather Outlook for all of North Georgia. Chattooga County, along with the contiguous counties of Walker and Floyd County in Georgia and DeKalb County in Alabama are included in a Winter Weather Advisory. Please note: The Hazardous Weather Outlook below is for ALL of North Georgia. The more specific Winter Weather Advisory is DIFFERENT for Walker and Chattooga Counties than the one issued for DeKalb County, Alabama (by the Huntsville NWS) and the one issued for Floyd County, Georgia.
Here is the latest arrest report from the Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office for Saturday, January 15, 2022:
The Winter Storm Watch for Chattooga and surrounding counties in Northwest Georgia has been upgraded to a Winter Weather Advisory. See details below:
As winter weather, including freezing rain, wind and snow, is predicted to move across Georgia this holiday weekend, Georgia Power is prepared to respond to outages safely and as quickly as weather conditions allow. The company is continuously monitoring changing weather and storm teams are ready to respond to customer outages caused by the winter weather.
The attorney representing a Huntsville Police Officer that has been accused of killing his pregnant girlfriend has withdrawn from the case, after he reportedly requested a local television station cover his movie premiere in exchange for an interview.
Many school systems across Northwest Georgia and Northeast Alabama are seeing the spread of Coronavirus, the flu and colds and in addition to sick children, are dealing with staffing shortage.
Georgia Insurance and Fire Safety Commissioner John King asks Georgians to exercise caution while using home heating equipment this winter.
The National Weather Service in Peachtree City, Georgia has issued a Winter Storm Watch for Chattooga and surrounding counties for Saturday night into Sunday morning. See details below:
School systems across the nation are seeing a dramatic increase in the number of students and staff with COVID-19. That’s true at Trion City Schools as well. According to numbers released on Friday, there are currently 62 cases of COVID-19 in the entire school system. Almost 4% of the student enrollment and staff at Trion Elementary has tested positive this week. Trion Middle school has a rate of just over 3% and Trion High School has almost 8% of the student population and staff with COVID.