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Temperatures will take a nosedive, and remain near normal to below normal for the first half of the new week. It will be breezy with winds out of the west to northwest. High temperatures will range from the mid 50s to near 60. The main batch of rain is forecast to exit the eastern viewing area - close to I-75 - by around dawn Sunday with only a chance of passing showers during the day with a slow-clearing sky. The Storm Prediction Center placed most of the Big Bend under a low threat of severe weather Saturday evening and night with the greatest threat in Franklin County. Wind shear and more-than-sufficient lift are variables that bring the threat, but a limiting factor of insufficient instability and convective energy remained. The highest threat of severe weather was restricted to Franklin County.

The Storm Prediction Center also placed coastal areas under a very low risk of damaging wind gusts and an isolated tornado with the stronger storms for much of the Big Bend. A Gale Warning was also in effect for the coastal and offshore waters until Sunday night, and a Coastal Flood Warning was also in effect with water levels of 2 to 4 feet above normally dry ground possible through Sunday evening.

Sustained winds could be a high as 39 mph according to the National Weather Service, and would be enough to move large objects. Sunday as the surface low deepens and the pressure gradient increases.

Wind advisories were in effect through 6 p.m. Radar imagery Saturday evening showed a northeastward-moving batch of heavy rain in the western Big Bend and Southwest Georgia.