No Freeze Warning in effect for us tonight, but I expect most of us to end up in the lower 30s by sunrise tomorrow.
If you're planning on traveling up to Starkville tonight for Bulldog Bash, I see no problems weather wise. Traffic moving smoothly along County Line Road at I-55 near the Hilton Hotel in Ridgeland, MS. Here's a current snapshot from an MDOT skycam:
As for TOMORROW, I do expect things to remain on the dry side, but I am watching some high clouds begin to stream in from the west this evening:
These are mainly high, cirrus clouds and they won't totally block the sun tomorrow, but if you're going to be out hunting early in the morning, this is the perfect set up for some some spectacular sunrises as the sun will refract off the clouds and really show a great color display. I am expecting the high clouds to stick around most of the day Saturday, and here's why:
This is a forecast sounding from the NAM valid for tomorrow at noon. Notice towards the top, the red and green lines are very close to one another- this implies that we'll see an increase in moisture in the upper atmosphere and that could result in some high cirrus clouds throughout the day tomorrow. Notice though towards the bottom, the two lines are pretty far apart- this is dry air so, like today, we'll see a big swing in temperatures from morning through afternoon because dry air heats up and cools down very efficiently. Again, Saturday will stay dry and mostly on the sunny side!
Notice the temperatures still pretty warm for this time of night just out to our west. I'm watching a storm system developing out to our west that will begin to impact our weather late Sunday and probably be out of here sometime on Wednesday.
This looks to be a pretty decent event in terms of the amount of rain some locations could pick up. Let's look at some model data from the GFS. I will point out that it has sped this system up to be an overnight Monday/ early Tuesday rainmaker, so we'll have to watch and see if it slows back down or keeps on this track.
The top image is valid for 12am Tuesday while the bottom shows what this model THINKS will be occurring by 6am Tuesday...
Some of these storms, especially to our west and north look like they may try to get a little on the strong side so that is something else we'll have to watch out for, but we really need this rain!!
High pressure will re-claim its territory over the Magnolia state by Wednesday night and it looks as if we are going to have a fantastic end to next week, so that is something we can look forward to.
Isaiah 40:31
Jake Reed
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