Rain, sleet and snow are expected to spread across the southern U.S., including Atlanta’s northern suburbs, less than two weeks after a winter storm stranded thousands of motorists and children in cars, buses and schools in the region. Atlanta’s northern suburbs may get 1 to 3 inches (2.5 to 7.6 centimeters) of snow through the next three days as the storm moves from Texas to the southern Appalachian Mountains, according to the U.S. Weather Prediction Center . The city itself will probably be spared this time, said Steve Wistar, a senior meteorologist at AccuWeather Inc . in State College, Pennsylvania . “In this storm it looks like Atlanta is in the southern edge,” Wistar said. “Because the south is less prepared to deal with some of these things it will be a real concern, but most of Georgia south of Atlanta will just get rain.” […]