Twin States Weather Blog

Watching For Rain Chances:

* A few isolated showers have popped up in spots across Eastern Mississippi this late afternoon. Plenty of low level moisture in place as the dewpoint has jumped up into the upper 50s and lower 60s across Mississippi. A weak upper low will track across the area late tonight and tomorrow and may keep a few showers in the forecast. The main rain chance looks to stay north of US 82 well into Northern Mississippi and into Northern Alabama. Having said that with daytime heating and the dewpoint running high a shower is not out of the question.

* Still watching the storm system to our west as it seems to bring the best rain chance to the area late Wednesday night and into Thursday. The models have started slowing this system down some. The 12Z GFS runs are looking a bit better on rain than my discussion this morning. I do not that the models hint at a "cap" in place over Eastern Mississippi and Western Alabama until about Wednesday night. The models still show the main instability to our west and north for the event...but we could see an isolated severe storm and once the cap breaks we have decent rain chances for our area. Models show from a half to one inch of rain possible for the area. The model still shows the heavier rain (about 72 hours out from the 12Z run) across Northeast Mississippi roughly along and north of MS Hwy. 16. I'm waiting for the new in between model runs to come in later tonight to see if there has been any change.

* Don't forget the SKYWARN Class is tonight at 7:00 at the Lauderdale Co. EMA office. Their office is across the road from the Meridian Fire Department Central Station on 14th Street.

* New website: WTOK launched the new website this morning. There is still a link to the weather blog on the Weather page.... its under the radar image and under the small Newscenter 11 Weather banner. We're working on a new weather blog that will soon be up and hosted on another server down the road.

* Have a good evening. Trent is in tomorrow night and I am back at 5:30 AM on Good Morning Meridian: Early Edition and at 6:00 AM on Good Morning Meridian.

Labels: Forecast Discussion

posted by Chris Whited @ 5:40 PM