Hazardous Weather Outlook for Rabun County

The National Weather Service has issued a hazardous weather outlook for Piedmont North Carolina, Western North Carolina, Upstate South Carolina, and Northeast Georgia, including Rabun County for Friday, August 26, 2022.  Isolated to scattered showers and thunderstorms are expected to develop across the area this afternoon and continue into the early evening. The greatest coverage is expected to be in the North Carolina mountains. Cloud-to-ground lightning and locally heavy rainfall will be the primary threats, but an isolated severe storm producing damaging wind gusts will be possible. Slowly moving storms could produce isolated flooding.