A rainy day to start your weekend off

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Today: Widespread rain and moderate with a high of 40/ overcast conditions with strong winds of between 20-30mph.

Tonight: Low of 34 with winds of 10 to 15mph/ Rain with a slight possible chance of wintery mix

Saturday: High of 36 with overcast conditions/ Cold and windy

Sunday: High of 46 with sunny skies




~Starkville, MS

Waking up to a wet and cold day is never fun and is not always easy especially when you have to go into work or school in it. I've always said that this is the perfect sleeping weather! A matter of fact, conditions won't change much throughout the course of the day with even more rain to come. Temperatures are slowly dropping as cooler temperatures behind this low pressure system begin to filter in. Now, if you haven't been paying attention to the weather across the nation, lots of snow have already fallen in the northern and eastern portion of Texas, Arkansas, and in the Oklahoma area and is advancing toward Tennessee and further east. The winter weather setup is due because of a surface low pressure system which is moving eastwardly with the combination of cold air from the north. We have two different types of setup going on here. The first is of course the wintery weather and the second setup is thunderstorms containing hail mainly south of all that wintery stuff. Here in Mississippi, most of the wintery weather will be north of us depending on how cold we get here. The more south you go from the cold air, thunderstorms will begin to play apart. So, this is certainly a storm that you definitely don't won't to be caught up in.

Here in Starkville, we are sort of in the middle of things. Most of the snow and ice will impact states above with only the northern edge of Mississippi being impacted. Like I said earlier, though, it all depends on how cold we get here. I do believe we will have a little bit of that wintery mix but only by tonight. For today and throughout the afternoon, we'll mostly received widespread rain mostly moderate rain. Roadways will be wet, so be sure to use caution when driving about. Temperatures will be at or right below 40 with overcast conditions. The National Weather Service has also issued a Lake Wind Advisory until 6p.m. for here and other counties because of sustained winds of more than 20-30 mph. So, a very nasty day in stored for us and throughout the southern regions.

As we go into the night hours, rain will still be in the forecast with cool conditions. I believe it will be safe to say that temperatures will be above freezing, but that doesn't necessarily rule out the possibility of ice and wintery mix. If we do accumulate ice, it won't be much. Winds will be out the north at 10- 15mph.

For your weekend outlook, Saturday looks to be fairly cool with not much sun out. Highs will be in the mid 30s with overcast conditions. So, if you've already put away your winter jacket you might want to consider getting it back out with northwest winds between 10-15mph. By Saturday, clouds begin to gradually clear making for a sunny day on Sunday. Highs should jump back to the mid 40s.

Make sure you take all the precautionary steps to be safe especially when traveling. Have a safe and bless weekend and God bless!