Georgia First Alert Weather Weekly: A look ahead at improving but lingering drought conditions

Added: 2026-06-01

[00:00:04]All right, First Alert meteorologist JD Disher here at Atlanta News First and I'm joined by Malik Bryant, a our First Alert meteorologist out of WRDW out in Augusta. So, obviously we've got a lot to talk about this week. Malik, we've got hurricane season starting next week.

[00:00:19]We've got obviously the the drought and the improvements that we've seen in some areas of the state because I do want to emphasize not everybody's seen that plus a lot of rain we've had and a lot of rain on the way. So, easiest way to start things up is Malik, I'm just going to toss it to you. Let us know like what are some of the things that y'all have been focusing on out in Augusta over the past week.

[00:00:39]>> Yeah, out here in Augusta, what we've been focusing on the past week is really just the amount of rain that we've received and some of it even just too much at one time here. So, we even had some flash flood warnings. You know, when we in this drought, some of the souls been just compacted and so dry that when we get all that heavy rain at once, it just runs right off and it runs into the nearest creeks and streams and some areas have just gotten too much in too little period of time. Even though it has been good. So, that's what we've been focusing on here is just messaging, hey, it's good to get the rain, but also, you know, getting too much in such a short period of time isn't necessarily conducive here because it's not, you know, getting soaked into the soil. But we have made those improvements in the drought monitor here and uh we were sitting very close approaching on nearly half of our area getting close to that exceptional drought. But um thankfully we have at least stopped the advancement of the drought so far. Still need a lot more rain here to come though over the next couple of months.

[00:01:39]>> Yeah. And I want to touch on that because you you know I know y'all had it. We definitely had some flash flood warnings in our area over the course of the past week. Obviously the big one in Atlanta uh a week and a half ago where we had water rescues happening on our interstates and then just a few days ago we had them in our northern suburbs. So you know I want to take a look at our rainfall totals that we seen in the last 10 days here in the metro Atlanta area and the heaviest rains have been concentrated on the northern edge of the city. So for folks over into Dallas that's in Paul County almost 8 ines of rain in the last 10 days. Kennesal not far behind at seven and a quarter east cobb at seven and a quarter and then coming six and a half and Roswell six and a quarter. So, I mean, these are some impressive amounts. And I will say that every single one of these areas, even though it is a 10-day rain total, got most of their rain over the course of a 24 to 48 hour period. And every single one of them saw a flash flood warning at some point in time. In fact, folks in Paling County actually had two.

[00:02:32]They had a flash flood warning literally one day and then had another one the next day. And, you know, at the airport didn't see as much in the way of rainfall as as the rest of the folks, but we have made a pretty good dent. uh in the deficit at least for the month. I mean this is actually the first month May in nine months where we are running above average for the month to date. So hopefully we can keep that trend going as we head in towards the next like you know two days. That's all we have left really the weekend of May. So maybe we can finally keep that that above average. But overall when you look at the year we're still you know five inches below average. When you look at the drought as a whole we're still about 10 inches below average. So, this has made some, you know, leaps, Malik, and it's been helping us, but it's definitely nowhere near where we need to be in terms of like seeing recovery from the drought. I think that's why a lot of people are confused is because we've gotten a lot of rain, but it's just it's not enough.

[00:03:26]>> Exactly. Uh I think one of the best innuendos that I've seen used for it is it's a marathon and not a sprint. It took a marathon for us to get to this point in the drought and it's going to take a marathon for us to get the beginning of this month and then we picked up a nearly an inch and a half there as we went a little bit wet early in the month and then we went on a little bit of a dry stretch and then just the past week and a half picking up an inch and an inch and a third there, a half an inch there, another inch and a third. Um just really kind of eating into that where we were last year picking up, you know, 200% above our monthly average rainfall for last year.

[00:04:03]And we'll have to wait and see once the end of the month gets up and see where our final totals end up, but Uh once again looking like the month of May here in Augusta is going to be once again above average but going to need a couple more months of this to really dig into that once again.

[00:04:18]>> Yeah, exactly. And I think one of the things that folks don't realize because I've seen it on our Facebook comments uh on our Atlanta news first Facebook page.

[00:04:23]I've seen it on First Alert meteorologist Patrick Pete's Facebook is, you know, people have just been going it's it's rained, the drought is over. You can't tell me any otherwise.

[00:04:31]Well, one that's not based in science.

[00:04:33]Like congratulations. You can believe that all you want. It's not right. two, you know, if you live in a city and you aren't dependent on agriculture or something like that, you don't really know how the drought is affecting because it's a lot more than just the rain that's falling and what's going on the ground. So, I've got some graphics here that I want to show because they really do kind of tell the story here.

[00:04:49]So, this is last month. This is the soil moisture for the top four inches of soil. This is very shallow. The top four inches of soil reacts very easily to all the rain that we've had. And you can see going from last month into this month, we go from dry to very wet. So yes, clearly the top part of the soil has seen remarkable improvement over the course of the last month. But the drought isn't about just the top of the soil. It's about the top, the middle, and the bottom. So when we take that 4 in and we put it to 4 feet, and you're like, well, why do we need four feet? Well, that's what goes to the water table. That's what goes to folks who need wells and rely on well water.

[00:05:27]This is what goes to the deepest roots of big trees and things like that. We're still very dry even with all of the rain we had. And this is recent data. This data was released this morning uh May 29th, Friday. That's when we're recording this. So, it just goes to show you that yeah, we have seen some improvement, especially in the top layers of the soil, but the middle and the lower layers of the soil have not.

[00:05:47]And we have to get those levels of the soil moist and back to average before we can even come close to saying this drought is over. So, that's why when we have these areas, you know, and I pointed out the north metro that have had a lot of rain, well, the the map looks a little different. Those areas have moved from an extreme drought to a severe drought, but they're still in a severe drought. And it's because those lower levels of the soil just haven't really recovered yet from, you know, what we're used to seeing this time of year. And especially in the summer months because, you know, we rely, a lot of folks do, uh, on that water table for the agricultural needs. They rely on the aquifers and pumping water out. And if we can't get those levels back up, then that's not doing any good. Even if the top level of the soil is, you know, moist.

[00:06:32]Exactly. And even getting this rain, it's all great and all, but the fact that we had this drought and this period of dry weather during the growing season and when all the farmers were out trying to plant going ahead and getting those crops planted, it was just a little bit too a little bit too late. I was talking to some of the farmers um one of the farmers that I know in South Georgia especially, um just about an hour away from the coast. He was talking about how well, you know, it's great we're getting rain and all, but all of our crops are you know, two, three, you know, four weeks behind of where they should be.

[00:07:04]Talking about the corn is about three, three, four feet high right now. Should be, you know, an extra foot taller than that. Uh, just because of the rain came later and we have the excessive drought during the growing season. So, it's great to have this rain now, but we had it, you know, a month ahead or two months ago would have helped out our farmers a great deal.

[00:07:23]>> Yeah. Yeah, and that that touches on another thing though because a lot of people are dealing with just from array of other reasons. High grocery prices, high prices, you know, around the area right now. And this is just one of those pieces of the puzzle. It's one of the reasons that we do have, especially for a lot of local products, higher prices in the grocery market because we don't have the supply, we don't have the yield at this point in time that we typically would. So, you know, we're having to wait for some of these crops to come in, then get to the store, and then hopefully that will help to, you know, moderate prices just a bit. But it all comes together in a big thing that I think a lot of people just don't realize. They're just like, well, I live in a city the drought doesn't really affect me when it really does, you know, through their crops, through their drinking water, and things like that.

[00:08:03]So, I I I think it's a it's a big deal that we are seeing improvement, but I think we just have to keep telling people like we do need a break from the rain. I'm not going to lie. We need at least a day or two where we can finally get to see some sunshine, but we do need to get more of this moisture in here.

[00:08:16]And I know for a lot of folks, uh it looks like we're going to continue to see that. So, you know, here's the setup, the overall pattern as we get into the the weekend and as we get into early next week across the southeastern United States. So, and don't take this as a gospel. I just kind of have it on here. the the low is and the high is not in the exact right spots, but they go to show you that we're squeezed between the two. And that's helping to pump in a lot of Gulf moisture uh across the region, which is that green. So, that's a precipable water. The darker it is, the more water there is in the atmosphere.

[00:08:47]The more water there is, the more likely we are to have heavier downpours and things like that to get more moisture out of it. And when you take a look, Georgia is smack dab in the middle of it. So, as we head through the weekend and on to early next week, you know, it's definitely not going to wash out every day. just it also depends on frontal systems and things that can add lift and things like that. But, you know, it just goes to show that we still have plenty of moisture uh in our area.

[00:09:09]And I'll go ahead and show even though George has got a lot of moisture for us here in Atlanta, we do have that first alert weather day for Saturday.

[00:09:15]Scattered showers throughout the day, becoming numerous to widespread as we head through the afternoon. So, Saturday, I definitely have an a different plan for you. Sunday though, even though we still have the moisture in place, we don't have uh the lift. The the front's kind of shifted a little bit away from our area. So, we'll see the clouds. Uh, it'll be cooler with a wedge building into our area. Um, but, you know, we're still enough moisture that we're not going to see those completely sunny skies. So, you know, it just, you know, we're going to be seeing a lot of kind of more of the same. I mean, take a look. This is just through Saturday night into Sunday morning for our area in North Georgia, you know, and we're just to the west of y'all down I 20.

[00:09:50]Models are painting widespread 1 to two inches with isolated amounts 3 to five inches. And we've seen that in the last week. Wherever those three to five inches are, that's where we're going to see flash flooding because the top level of the ground has gotten to the point where it is just saturated and it just can't handle it anymore. So, you know, unfortunately that break we need uh male in the rain is it's going to come next week, but overall it's going to uh ruin yet another weekend. And I think that's more what I'm bummed about. Like at some point I'm like I know we need the rain, but can we get it like on a Wednesday, like a Thursday? Can we just can we clear out our weekends a little bit just to because a lot of folks they need that weekend time to like just relax, dissociate, and it's hard to do and get out and enjoy things when it's just so much rain in place.

[00:10:35]>> Exactly. It feels like every time it rains it's just on the weekend there to ruin it. And as far as like here in Augusta goes and we look at our our just rain chances over the next couple of days here. It's just you know one after another these scattered showers popping up in the afternoon and evening hours 50% as we head towards your Saturday and we're going to continue to see those rain chances 40% Monday and then we'll start to see a little bit of a turn there. But when you really turn into the hourly there for your tomorrow forecast, this is what this is what it really looks like. So going to see again the lower 80s there. So below average temperatures once again, but I mean we could even see some showers there in the morning hours. So, it's just a little bit different than what we we saw maybe last week where we see every afternoon pop showers really turn in tomorrow maybe our wetest day for the next several days um as far as scattered showers and storms go. But the good thing though on the temperature side at least if you don't like all the heat uh for the next couple of days is we will see some below average temperatures here. Our our normal here is 89 degrees towards the end of May. We'll be getting to our average temperature 90 degrees here shortly as we head into June. But below average temperatures at least for the next five days. So that's one thing we be like, okay, okay, you know, I get it. you know, the temperatures are going to be cooler, but it does come with a caveat there with the temperatures having the showers and the thunderstorms each and every afternoon, but at least be a little bit on the cooler side. So, it depends on what you want. What do you want? Do you want 95 degrees and cool weather, the humidity out the wazu, but you're getting some sun, you get a nice tan, or uh you want some below average?

[00:12:21]>> Wait, wait, are you telling me that my my sunny 70s and low humidity is done for the year?

[00:12:26]>> [laughter] >> It's done. It's done.

[00:12:30]There's no more of that going on.

[00:12:32]>> Ah, it's, you know, meteorological summer starts on Monday. So, I guess we shouldn't be too surprised there. Uh, I I do want to We're going to take a quick break here. Uh, when we come back, we're going to actually go from our storms to the storms out into the plains. First Alert meteorologist, uh, Isaac Williams is out into the plains. He is doing the First Alert storm chase. We're going to check in with him and then talk a little bit more about that journey coming up.

[00:12:57]Welcome back to Georgia Georgia First Alert Weather Weekly and we're going to now kind of turn our attention to the planes because that is where First Alert meteorologist Isaac Williams is. He is out on the First Alert Stormchase. Uh so Muel, if you are not familiar with that, our uh one of our meteorologists is out, he does it every year and he takes a group of students out uh and they go stormchasing with a few of the professors as part of their curriculum and he's been helping out with that for years, even before he started here. So, he's out there uh hoping to see a lot of things. It's just the beginning of it.

[00:13:29]So, you we know how stormchasing goes.

[00:13:30]It takes a little minute to get there.

[00:13:32]Uh but as we take a look at the graphic, you can see exactly where Isaac is right now. So, this is his actual tracker. We we uh attached it to his vehicle so he can't escape us. We're going to know exactly where he is. So, yesterday he was uh down in Amarillo to start the day. He and then ended up over into Colorado, the southern portion of Colorado, right along the New Mexico border. Now he's over near Gin, uh, Oklahoma, which is exactly where they're going to start today. And then they'll start and analyze everything. It's it's a whole thing. They see where the best chance for severe weather is. But he uh did leave us this story about exactly where he is going to be today and what he saw yesterday.

[00:14:11]>> Day two of First Alert Stormchase 2026 started us Thursday morning in Amarillo, Texas. From there, we decided to head towards some storm potential on the Colorado New Mexico border along Interstate 25. We traveled from the Texas panhandles flatlands to a more mountainous terrain through the day, but we still managed to get some good views of developing storms off in the distance. We also saw a cold air funnel in one of the storms near Trinidad, Colorado. Basically, that's not quite a true funnel and tornado, but it does still form by greater temperature differences from the surface and really cold air. a loft in the cloud and a [music] shower or storm sometimes can stretch that updraft just enough to condense a brief funnel. They typically don't last very long and they obviously hardly ever touch the ground because that would then been a tornado. Uh [music] but that cold air funnel was certainly something super cool to see.

[00:15:03]>> I'll see you tonight live at 6:30 on First Alert Weather Extra.

[00:15:07]>> Yeah. So, one of the things that he's got working against him at the moment is, you know, typically for the the setup of the planes, you want a lot of moisture. you want a lot of dry air coming in. And while we're getting all that moisture, you know, I'll pull this graphic back up. I've tilted it over to the side a little bit. Uh where Isaac is, and again, this low is not in the exact same place. So for for the weekend, it's a little bit further to the east. For today, it's a little further to the west. This is kind of a mean, but he's right on the edge of that moisture and it's just not quite colliding with the drier air at this time. But he's going to be out there uh Malik for a good week and a half. I think he's going to be out there not just this weekend, but also into the weekend thereafter, you know, chasing.

[00:15:43]And so hopefully he'll get some more better conditions that are going to be coming his way. But did you will ever get a chance to do that when you were in college? Have you ever been stormchasing or with hurricane hunters or anything like that?

[00:15:54]>> Not officially. Not not uh not on an official terms. Me and my roommate we did at the time we uh it was um Hurricane Ida, I think it was. Yeah, it was Hurricane Ida when it was headed towards Louisiana and we went downh. We were like, you know what? We're gonna stay away from Louis. we don't need to go in there. You know, it's going to be super wet. It's probably be hard to get out. Um and then by the next afternoon, the category 4 was making landfall there. Uh we found ourselves on the other side of Blink Pont Train from New Orleans as [clears throat] the hurricane was making landfall. So that was uh our our experience there. I did take a couple excursions um into northeast Georgia. I went to college at UG. So anytime there was a tornado in the vicinity, tornado warning in the vicinity, I just left. I was like, "Hey, outside today. So, I'm uh I'm gonna leave here for a second. I'll be back if I come back with some tornado footage.

[00:16:48]And uh hey, we do we get the day off for the rest of the day. But um yeah, I got to go out there, tried to navigate the tough terrain, that is trees and the hills in the Pedmont up there in Madison County. One time I was about a mile away from EF1. Couldn't see it any trees. Um, but yeah, that was I've always wanted to storm chase since I was very very young.

[00:17:12]Um, I just not not a lot of opportunities to do it, but definitely want getting out to the planes is is on my budget.

[00:17:18]>> Yeah. Especially because that's one of the reasons obviously they're out there is uh, you know, it's where the air masses collide, but it's also there's very flat and no trees. This something we don't have here in Georgia, especially with the Piedmont, the air region that we're both in and where where you grew up. I haven't actually done any stormchasing uh for severe weather. I I have seen a few water spouts uh when I lived in in New Orleans for a few years. Very common there on Lake Pont Train like you were actually just talking about with Ida. Uh and then I did have the opportunity I went with the hurricane hunters up into Hurricane Michael. So, you know, I got to go inside of the the eyewall of a category 5 hurricane. So, you know, I think there's just something in most meteorologists that, you know, we obviously these these are big and dangerous storms, but, you know, we want to stay safe, but we also want to get as close and study it uh to the best that we can because I think that's what drives all of us uh from an early age.

[00:18:06]>> It definitely throws me from an early age just the curiosity of why is there a tornado forming here like get us close to really watch the combination of air masses to watch the wall for um to really want to do that growing up watching the storm chasers on TV. Uh doing the same thing, wanting to do that for myself has always been an ideal perspective, but also like because I grew up in in central Georgia, but always snow has always been like something I've really been fascinated by. And a couple years ago, I went all the way up to North Georgia. They were just getting an inch and a half up there in Ringold. Um and they were just getting an inch and a I just left class for a couple days middle of March. I was like, I've never seen snow in March. I'm just gonna go and go up to Ringold, watch snow and drive through Murray County up there and then come back through Dawsonville. And it was it was it was an experience up there. I had a real drive car. Uh oh, no, no, no. Car is not not the best idea.

[00:19:12]>> No. When I lived in Minnesota, I had a rear wheel drive pickup truck and at the beginning of winter every year, I would load 600 pounds of concrete into the back of it just to weigh it down because that's what you have to do. Um, but you know, you know, speaking with the storm chasing and things like that, we mentioned that, you know, obviously there's snow, there's storms, and then the hurricane hunters. Uh, but it's almost coming up to that time of year where the hurricane hunters are going to start to fly. Uh, tropical Atlantic hurricane season starts on Monday. And coming up after the break, we're going to dive more into that and what the prediction is for this year and some of the things that we are looking at about why that prediction is what it is.

[00:19:49]Welcome back to Georgia First Alert Weather Weekly. I am joined by uh Muel Bryant down in Augusta and we are about to start talking all things tropics because May is wrapping up. June 1st just around the corner. first day of meteorological summer, but also the first day of Atlantic hurricane season.

[00:20:08]Say Atlantic, the Eastern Pacific's been in motion for about two weeks now. Um, but I want to start off uh with the the forecast for this year. So, you know, we have the forecast is for 14 tropical storms. Seven of which could become I'm sorry, the average is 14 tropical storms. Seven of which on average become hurricanes, three of which become major hurricanes. This year, it's for a below average season. So, you know, 8 to 14 name storms, three to six hurricanes, one to three major hurricanes. And, you know, we always say that all it takes is one for one of these, even if it is a below average season. And the other thing I want to go into just briefly because everybody likes to know like what are we looking for in the names.

[00:20:44]We're going to start off with Arthur and probably not even make it to Wilfred.

[00:20:48]So, you know, A to W there, we leave out a few letters just because there's not enough names uh in those particular letters. So, you're not going to see a Q, an X, or a Y. Uh but you know the below average season itself is due to the fact that we have El Nino and a pretty strong one that's going to be uh working its way in. In fact, we're already seeing signs that El Nino is already underway or very close to officially being underway uh out into the Pacific Ocean. So that's kind of one of the things that we are going to be looking for. And one of the things that causes a below average season with El Nino is, you know, it's all about the cycle. They got warm water out there.

[00:21:23]Warm water is going to cause the air to rise. They got a lot more storms, but that air has to fall somewhere else.

[00:21:28]That's what makes the cycle work. It can't just rise everywhere. And it tends to fall over the Atlantic. And then we also tend to have a little bit more shear out there as well. Both of those things, no bueno for the hurricanes and the tropical systems to develop. So, you know, it's kind of like a mixed bag. I know uh the meteorologist, we were talking about this earlier, like to have some storms to look at and study, but obviously we don't want any hurricanes to make it in in our, you know, direction.

[00:21:53]>> Exactly. Yeah, I I like to tell people because they hear windshar all the time.

[00:21:56]We're talking about severe weather. So like why is that bad for hurricanes? I thought you know you know severe weather likes windshield. I was like well hurricane's a little bit different structure is completely different and it the way it rises through the atmosphere windshield in a hurricane tilt it over and that way it can't really get the engine really there. It's like it's like putting diesel in a regular unled gasoline car, right? Can't breathe properly and eventually it just chokes itself out.

[00:22:23]That's what happens when you really get wind over the Atlantic and all the tropical storms and hurricanes that try to form. I'm like, yeah, that not not no bueno. No bueno for them. So, we could see less less storms there, but still could see a couple. So, it only like tell people all the time, it only takes one. Um, but I mean, it would be nice to see a very weak tropical system move through very quickly, dump dump some good rainfall here during the summer.

[00:22:49]That would also help out with the drought here as well, but um only if it's a weak one that moves very quickly.

[00:22:55]Don't want to deal with any flooding issues or any damages.

[00:22:58]>> No, because you know we do get tropical systems here in Georgia. The the effects tend to be a little bit different than the coast who you know the coastal folks deal with a lot of the wind. They deal with a lot of storm surge. We deal with obviously some wind when they move through, but we deal with a lot of rain because even y'all were dealing with Helen when it moved through and obviously did a lot of damage up there.

[00:23:15]So, you know, it shows you that Malik even when they move inland this far like we still have to pay attention.

[00:23:22]Yeah, exactly. We still have to pay attention. I remember when I was in junior in high school when Michael came through and I was in central Georgia. It was like uh it was like the perfect scenario for for that part. Um we eventually lost. I thought I was seeing lightning and it was actually just transformers blowing. Um and and so that was pretty much the same thing that happened here in Augusta for when the 100 mph plus wind gust were coming through and like okay far away from the coast all we expecting is you know maybe a little bit of wind and rain but no the right scenario can happen we got to pay attention now that's what's something that's very different and after everyone's tuning in the tropical weather everyone's weather aware everyone knows hey I need to have a plan for hurricane now that this has happened and this is possible rather than just saying hey I live 100 miles inland there's no way this is going to >> right and you know El Nino is really no reason to let your guard down because the I know it's so cliche I've said it you've said it it only takes one but it really does because if you go back to the 1992 hurricane season El Nino well below average hurricane season you know if you just looked at the sheer number of storms we had not even close to being impressive well it was also the same year that Hurricane Andrew made landfall. So, you know, it El Nino doesn't mean that, you know, below average season and El Nino, none of that means that we're not going to see storms. It doesn't mean we're not going to see landfalls. It definitely doesn't mean we're not going to see strong storms. We've all seen that in the past.

[00:24:53]So, it's just another reason that we need to kind of keep our guard up as we head throughout the next several months.

[00:24:59]And I say months because if you look at the tropical activity map, we're just at the beginning of hurricane season. The peak really isn't until we get into August, September, and October. In fact, August 15th to October 15th really is the heart that that 60-day period of hurricane season when we start to see things moving in. Uh, and thankfully not seeing anything out there right now.

[00:25:18]Yeah, we got a lot of cloud activity in the Gulf or anything. Um, but you also notice that streak of clouds going through Bermuda and leaving back to the United States. That's a front typically when we see that. We're not expecting much in the way of things. So, you know, Malik, I the good news is yes, we are expecting a below average season.

[00:25:33]Nothing is on the horizon right now, but obviously you and I are both going to be paying very close attention to see exactly what happens because you know a quick spin up in the Gulf is all we really need.

[00:25:44]>> Exactly. Quick spin up in the golf takes no time no time at all for it to happen in the right spot.

[00:25:53]We've seen a lot of rapid intensification events over the last couple years. So hopefully we don't see any more of those.

[00:26:02]>> Yep. All right. And so we're going to wrap things up. Malik, I do want to end it on a better note, a happier note than just hurricanes. Uh so what kind of plans you got this weekend? Are you like me and working?

[00:26:14]>> Working. Yeah, working this weekend.

[00:26:16]Hopefully I can get out to the pool. I like to do something before I come in to work on the weekend. I work weekend evenings here. So I usually come in work around 2:30. And so maybe Saturday morning going to try to go go to the pool there if it's not raining.

[00:26:32]couple cannonballs. Get a couple people wet that are trying to stay dry on the side of the pool there. Um, and then >> you're that guy.

[00:26:39]>> Have some lunch.

[00:26:42]>> Hey, there's a pool. I'm there to get in it. I'm I'm not I'm not type of guy that's just sitting there. I got There's a pool and we're getting in and everybody else is getting in, too. Maybe play some pool basketball. I don't know if you ever played pool basketball, but it's a it's a rough and tough sport.

[00:26:58]When I was growing up, pool basketball was always It always helps like with in pool basketball. You don't You don't have to be a good swimmer. You just got to be able to hold your breath long enough, hold on to the basketball.

[00:27:08]>> Oh, wow.

[00:27:09]>> You can win basketball.

[00:27:10]>> I might I I might be able to do that. I actually can. I got pretty good breath holding skills. So, I'm the opposite.

[00:27:15]You know, I've got typically I am evenings, but Isaac is off. He's our morning met, so I'll be covering for him. So, uh I'll be enjoying myself as I get off in the afternoon. Maybe trying to do what you do. Just depends on the rain. So, you know, Malik, I appreciate you uh being here today with us. Uh we will be back next Wednesday on Georgia First Alert Weather Weekly. Until then, y'all have a wonderful time.