Macon could see ice, snow as freezing cold temperatures hit Georgia. What to know.

Maconites should dust off their coats as Middle Georgia braces for unusually cold weather later this week.

According to the National Weather Service, Macon is predicted to get rain possibly mixed with snow on Friday. The snow is expected to be gone by Friday evening.

The winter weather does bring a risk of icy roads too. The NWS warned in a post on X that icy conditions will likely be the most serious along the I-86/I-20 corridors, with a chance for one-tenth of an inch of ice expected in those areas.

Winter weather conditions are expected to stop near Cordele, but if temperatures drop below current predictions, they could extend further into Central Georgia and into South Georgia, the National Weather Service said.

The low in Macon on Friday is predicted to be 32 degrees while the high is 38, according to the Weather Channel.

It marks an unusually cold day for Macon, where the average temperature on a day in January is about 48 degrees, according to data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which runs the NWS.

The icy weather is part of a nationwide wave of extreme cold. Huge swaths of the U.S. have been plunged into unseasonable cold as a polar vortex, a winter storm system, makes its way southward.

Many places have canceled schools, grounded flights and experienced power outages due to the extreme weather.