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A coastal low is forecast to swipe the Southeast this weekend delivering gusty winds and potentially heavy rain. For Coastal Georgia and the Lowcountry, the storm system arrives Saturday night through Sunday.

Let's take you through the weekend forecast. Most of Saturday is dry with skies becoming cloudy. Winds will be around 10-20 mph on Saturday. Rain showers will arrive from south to north after 6pm.

By 6-8am Sunday morning, many locations will be seeing a wind driven heavy rain. The low will continue to move northeast. The corridor of heavy rain will shift from southeast Georgia into the Carolinas from morning into the afternoon.

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Coastal low to track near the Southeast Coast on Sunday

Rainfall totals of 1.5"-3"+ are possible. Isolated totals may top 4"! Wind gusts of 25-40+ mph are expected. The threat of coastal flooding is currently low, and the concern for severe storms is also low.

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Impact Weather Day -- possible impacts

Rain and wind are the big concerns this weekend. Wind gusts may hit 50 mph in spots Sunday morning through midday. As the low passes by, winds may relax a bit, then pick back up as the low lifts to the north and winds turn to the west-northwest Sunday afternoon and evening.

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Leading up to the storm, make sure to secure your outdoor holiday and Christmas decorations. If traveling Saturday night or Sunday watch for street flooding or standing water. With 8+ hours of gusty winds there may be sporadic power outages in our area.

By Monday the storm is long gone and cooler temperatures will spill into our area in the wake of the coastal low. Please check back often to WJCL 22 in the days ahead as we will be updating our forecast as needed when new data arrives!

For the latest weather information and the area's certified most accurate forecast watch WJCL 22 News or check the free WJCL 22 News App. You can get weather updates anytime on social media...follow me on X (formerly Twitter) here or on Facebook here.

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Want a taste of St. Patrick's Day festivities before the masses descend upon the city?

The Savannah Irish Festival Committee kicks off the Green Season with the 31st annual Savannah Irish Festival, Feb. 9-10, at Victory North, 2403 Whitaker St.

The highlight of the event, according to Committee Chairwoman Tara Reese, are the entertainers and the cultural stage. "We're the only festival in the Southeast to actually have a cultural stage that talks about the Irish culture, and we bring in a lot of people in the lineup that talk about the Irish culture and focuses especially on Savannah."

When does the Irish Festival begin?

The festival kicks off on Friday night at 6 p.m. with a concert from The Brave Collide and Syr, both from Dublin, at Tickets are on sale now and at the door for $35.

"It's going to be an early night, the concert ends at about 8 p.m., but we want people to get an opportunity to come in and look at our vendors," Reese said. "We're going to have vendors selling Irish jewelry and Irish clothing."

Saturday's opening ceremonies will start at 10 a.m. with St. Vincent's Academy.

At 11 a.m., the cultural stage speakers begin with Georgia Southern Professor Meaghan Dwyer-Ryan speaking about the Savannah Irish Neighborhoods Project. The rest of the events can be found on the Savannah Irish Fest website.

Where will the Irish Festival take place?

Victory North will host all the events this year.

Where can I get tickets?

Tickets are on sale at the door and online right now at Eventbrite, for both the concert and the festival.

Destini Ambus is the general assignment reporter for Chatham County municipalities for the Savannah Morning News. You can reach her at dambus@gannett.com

The Chatham County Board of Commissioners established a new non-emergency call center aimed at reducing the burden of high volume to the Chatham County 911 Center.

The board's action at its meeting Friday will create six new full-time positions including a non-emergency communications manager. The creation of the new call center will cost $385,446 from the county's general fund reserves for fiscal year 2024.

"It will help with vacancies and help us set up our center to take non-emergency phone calls," said Chatham County Manager Michael Kaigler.

New non-emergency call center to help address 911 complaints

The creation of the non-emergency line comes as the county has been inundated with complaints due to unanswered calls and long dispatch wait times, according to reporting by the Savannah Morning News.

The county's 911 call center began operations in October 2023, but a combination of staffing shortages and a large number of calls has hampered the center's efficiency, according to the reporting.

“I’m receiving, for the first time since I've been a commissioner, complaints about 911," said District 1 Commissioner Helen Stone recently told the Savannah Morning News.

Kaigler said the new call center's purpose will be similar to the City of Savannah's 311 system, which is for issues with city services such as parking, water and trash.

Stone said she hopes the new call center will also help shortages for the 911 line. Kaigler said the goal is to have the non-emergency call takers eventually be trained to move up to emergency calls.

The center's establishment creates five lead call taker jobs in addition to the non-emergency communications manager. The call takers will have a minimum starting salary of $42,338, and the manager position's minimum salary is $46,309.

Kaigler said the county is looking into making the non-emergency number shorter than a typical seven-digit phone number, that way residents could easily commit it to memory. The key is to avoid a number easily confused with the city's 311, Kaigler said.

"We desperately need a shorter telephone number, one that can stick in people's minds," Stone said.

Evan Lasseter is the city and county government reporter for the Savannah Morning News. You can reach him at ELasseter@gannett.com.

There are numerous high quality works featured in Boundless, an invitational group show that, according to the press release, “seeks to amplify Black voices.” Visitors will certainly wish to check out paintings by local stalwarts Bobby Bagley, Nae’Keisha Jones and Calvin Woodum, as well as one of the pieces Tafy LaPlanche included in her highly acclaimed Telfair Museums’ Boxed In/Break Out installation a few years back (spoiler alert: It’s bigger than I remembered).

But the real stars of the show are the sculptural heads of hair created by recent SCAD fibers grad Mia Crews, part of her series Dear, Dark & Lovely.

“It’s such a huge topic within blackness, not even just Black women,” noted CAC Gallery head Antonia Larkin. “The topic of hair, the topic of hair being presentable to the masses, has been a difficult conversation in the Black community, what’s acceptable, what’s not acceptable. I love seeing that artists are bringing it to their work.”

Crews isn’t the only one in the show looking at Black hair: In total, four of the eight artists featured are contending with the topic. But her take feels unique. Each piece is essentially a foam mannequin head covered in yarn, but while the tools she used to enact her vision look simple on paper, the ideas contained within are deeply complex and important.

“Dear, Little Black Girls Who Wear Barrettes,” for instance, recreates a hairstyle traditionally donned by young black girls, often against their will, according to both Larkin and the artist herself.

“I wore this hairstyle, and I hated this hairstyle,” Crews stated. “I went to a pretty mixed school, and you see the way other people’s mothers style their hair, and you kind of want that. But then you realize your mom styles your hair this way every morning.”

And then there’s “Dear, Black Women Keep Your Crown.”

“This is about the history of Black women’s hair,” Larkin explained of the piece. “Dark and Lovely is a relaxer company. The head looks like the inside of a body, endometrial tissue, cancerous tissue, because they have found in recent years that relaxers have caused reproductive issues for women.”

The hair falling off is the third-degree burns,” added the artist, referencing the patch of discolored hair clinging to the top of the sculpture. “Because relaxers are a chemical treatment, if you leave them on for too long it will burn your hair off, and it will burn your scalp.”

“It’s heavily advertised to black women,” Crews continued, a fact easily verified with a quick Google search. “It’s something that can ‘solve their problems’ of having ‘unmanageable hair’ or make their hair ‘silky smooth.’ It’s about pressure to conform, about how that leads to using relaxers, and how that leads to cancer.”

Important stuff from the young artist, a depth of conception that she more than backs up with the work.

The Savannah Cultural Arts Center will hold an artist talk for the exhibition at 6 p.m., on February 8, 201 Montgomery St.

Dripping Crown Chronicles by Zay Hutchins at The Sentient Bean, through March 7th

The Sentient Bean might be a coffee shop, but it’s also one hell of a place to see art. Zay Hutchins’ Dripping Crown Chronicles continues the Forsyth Park-adjacent cafe’s run of excellent exhibitions, bringing the artist back to where he originally debuted the first two iterations of his “Dripping” series.

“As heavy is the head who wears the crown, the dripping crown is a personal trademark that inspires me to create art that tell stories of the good, the bad, and the provocative of what a modern day neighborhood King or Queen goes through to obtain said crown,” Hutchins explained to me via Messenger. “Even if the crown isn’t present within the painting, there’s still the downward dripping effect or technique that I use within all of my paintings that gives you a clue that the crown is somewhere up above.”

The “up above” plays a major role in the collection of new works the painter and tattoo artist has chosen for this show: Winged black youths soar in “Fly or Fall,” a piece that, to me, looks to be at least partly inspired by the Miles Morales animated Spider-Man movies; while “Cloud Surfers” is, quite literally, young black men and women surfing through the clouds.

Those familiar with Hutchins’ two previous Sentient Bean shows will no doubt recognize his color palette, use of both spray paint and acrylic, and the characteristic style that he employs in his figure work, not to mention the drips. But each of those exhibitions featured personal heroes who had things to say that the artist felt needed to be amplified through his work.

With Dripping Crown Chronicles, Hutchins has dumped text altogether, focusing entirely on sending a visual message. Instead of presenting his audience with the things that have inspired him, the artist has decided to use his own experience and visual language to inspire others. One can’t help wonder if it might have something to do with him having spent the last year preparing for, and then contending with, his first child.

“As an artist, she has influenced me to be more introspective and has pushed me to chronicle the feelings and thoughts about the world that keep me up at night,” he explained.

Apparently Hutchins strategy for dealing with it all is to elevate the characters in his paintings above the fray, a message we could all use in this day and age.