{"id":429194,"date":"2026-01-25T15:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T15:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/429194\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T15:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T15:37:08","slug":"live-updates-ice-sleet-accumulating-in-north-georgia-ground-delay-at-airport-wsb-tv-channel-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/429194\/","title":{"rendered":"LIVE UPDATES: Ice, sleet accumulating in north Georgia; ground delay at airport \u2013 WSB-TV Channel 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">ATLANTA \u2014 A winter storm is moving through north Georgia with a ice storm warning in effect for most of our area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Severe Weather Team 2 is tracking freezing rain and sleet across north Georgia on Sunday morning. That layer of ice is starting to weigh down trees and power lines in spots.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">LIVE Severe Weather Team 2 coverage spread throughout north Georgia, NOW on Channel 2 Action News Sunday AM.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Road conditions are deteriorating, especially secondary roads, in parts of our area. There have also been some crashes in spots. State officials are urging everyone to stay at home and stay off the roads. Power outages are likely to increase as the morning goes on as ice accumulates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsbtv.com\/news\/local\/school-closings-these-districts-canceling-going-virtual-monday\/7WVXQGP7YRGPVA77SJZ4HHMBSE\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SCHOOL CLOSINGS: These districts canceling, going virtual Monday<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">[DOWNLOAD: <a href=\"https:\/\/wsbtvweatherapp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Free WSB-TV Weather App for alerts wherever you go<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">[UPLOAD PHOTOS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsbtv.com\/share-with-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Share your weather photos with us here<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">LIVE UPDATES<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">10:05 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">MARTA says rail and bus routes will be operating on a reduced schedule through Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">9:54 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The Federal Aviation Administration has issued a ground delay for flights heading to Atlanta. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cDepartures to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International are delayed avg. 117 mins,\u201d the alert states.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">9:44 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">GEMA says it will provide a statewide update at 3 p.m. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">9:08 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Channel 2 Gwinnett County Bureau Chief Matt Johnson is live on Sawmill Drive in Suwanee, where police have shut it down for ice. State officials want people to stay off the roads as they retreat them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">8 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Gov. Brian Kemp gave an update on his social accounts:<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Thank you to the response crews working around the clock right now! We\u2019ve still got a long way to go, so I urge Georgians in affected areas to stay hunkered down to help first responders and road treatment teams do their jobs. <\/p>\n<p>Stay home, stay warm, stay safe! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/g58FUF7g5I\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/g58FUF7g5I<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Governor Brian P. Kemp (@GovKemp) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovKemp\/status\/2015404896871186870?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 25, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">7:45 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The power outages are growing across metro Atlanta and north Georgia. Georgia EMC reports at least 3,800 customers without power. Georgia Power\u2019s outage maps shows at least 2,800 customers in Fulton County, 1,434 customers in DeKalb County, 800 customers in Gwinnett County and 700 customers in Rockdale County who don\u2019t have power.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">6:59 a.m.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">6:35 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">At least 1,042 flights have been canceled so far at the Atlanta airport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">6:24 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Severe Weather Team 2 Meteorologist Brian Monahan says there will be a wide range of temperatures across our counties today.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">6:05 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Triple Team Traffic\u2019s Mike Shields says conditions on the roads are deteriorating across north Georgia.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">5:45 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Georgia EMC reports at least 3,100 customers are without power. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">5:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">We\u2019re live on Channel 2 now tracking the freezing rain and even some sleet across a lot of north Georgia this morning<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">4:27 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Pickens County EMA reports ice accumulating on trees and powerlines east of Jasper. Several city streets are closed due to ice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATLANTA \u2014 A winter storm is moving through north Georgia with a ice storm warning in effect for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5786,4,450,201092,76384,451,33932,3,191904,573,452,453,201016,33927],"class_list":["post-429194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-atlanta","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-brian_monahan","tag-channel_2","tag-headlines","tag-metro_atlanta","tag-news","tag-north_georgia","tag-of","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-wsbforecast","tag-wsbsyndication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}