Great Weather, Dull Pattern

It's been a nice week here in Starkville so far. We got a decent amount of rain in here Sunday afternoon on the back side of TD 10, but we dried out nicely on Monday and Tuesday just in time for my flag football game on Tuesday night. Sadly, though, the Canes had to suffer their first defeat on that night. That's a little off-topic, so let's get back to the weather. We're gonna call for some isolated showers/storms around the area tomorrow (Thursday) and then look for the wind to shift around to the northwest as a weak cold front pushes through the area. It doesn't look like this front will cool us down very much, but it may dry the air out and make it feel alot cooler than what it has been. It also doesn't look like it will drop much rain either which is something that we badly need. The weekend looks great....we're gonna go with sunny skies through most of the weekend with highs staying right around the mid-80's and lows dropping all the way down to the uppper 50's and lower 60's. Then as we get into the beginning of next week, we're looking for temps to bounce back up to around the upper 80's before our next chance of rain which will come around the middle of the week as another system begins to approach our area. Fall Break looks great, though, so try to get out and enjoy the nice weather and the break from all the school work!

Maybe Rain!

It's been a warm week this week, but very sunny and beautiful outside all thanks to high pressure in the area. I hope you all managed to get out and enjoy it too because it looks like it won't last much longer.

Our potential next big weather maker is moving into the gulf as just an area of low pressure right now. It's very uncertain as to what is gonna happen with this system right now, but it looks like it will probably move into the gulf of mexico pretty soon. Where this thing will make landfall and the intensity of it when it makes landfall is where the uncertainty lies right now. It looks like the best guess right now will take it somewhere along the Mississippi or Louisiana coast. The best scenario for us probably would be that this system make landfall somewhere just to the west of us as maybe a weak tropical depression, so that maybe we can get a good bit of rain out of it without it causing alot of trouble in the way of damages or injuries. After the way the last hurricane blew up in the gulf, though, I wouldn't be surprised to see alot of intensification from this system. Hopefully, I'm wrong on that though. With this in mind, we're gonna go with a nice night tonight with a low temp getting down to the lower 60's. Then tomorrow, a few clouds returning with highs getting into the upper 80's, and tomorrow night we will be looking at a slight chance of showers before the big rain chances arrive on Saturday and then again on Sunday and into the day on Monday before they begin to go back down Monday night as we are looking for a cold front to try to come into the area towards the beginning of next week. Geez, that was one LONG sentence. We are also looking for temps to begin going down next week with the passing of that front, and we may see high temps towards the end of the week only reaching into the mid-80's. Try to keep up with the latest updates on this developing system in the gulf, though, as it will be our next big weather maker.

Finally a little relief

Fairly significant changes have taken place over the past week as far as the weather in Starkville. The week started out hot, but on Tuesday we had a cold front push through the area. We didn't get very much rain out of that system to help much with our drought situation, but it cooled us down into the lower to mid-80's. Far from cold temps, but when compared to the past several weeks, mid-80's felt pretty good out there. We had one nice day on Wednesday, but on Thursday, we had a tropical system named Humberto move through the area. This system did provide us with some very welcome rain....I believe the total amount from yesterday was right around an inch. Again, not a drought-busting rain, but any little bit helps now. This morning, a few showers are still lingering around, but look for those to be out of the area by this afternoon. The weekend looks very nice, beginning with tonight with lows getting all the way down to the lower 60's. For Saturday, we're gonna be looking for mostly sunny skies with highs only reaching into the lower 80's, and a low Saturday night falling all the way to the lower 50's. Sunday....looks great also. High temps should only reach into the lower 80's with a low temp Sunday night falling into the upper 50's or lower 60's.

Into next week.....it looks like we will begin a bit of a warming trend as we look for highs to climb back into the mid to upper 80's and lows falling back into the mid to upper 60's. Other than that, though, it looks like it will be a very nice week. Try to get outside and enjoy the nice weather!!

Heat and Hurricanes

Not much has changed with this weather pattern since last week. The big story around here continues to be the unbearable heat. Again, not much relief is seen in the near future; it seems like the only relief we can look for will come in the form of some afternoon pop-up thunderstorms, which only gives us very low rain chances. It looks like our high temperatures will remain in the lower 90's through much of next week, but hopefully we can get some of those thunderstorms to cool us down just a little.

Looking more at the big picture now.....as you all probably know, another category 5 hurricane named Felix made landfall on Tuesday near extreme northeastern Nicaragua. This was the second category 5 hurricane to strike Central America in just over a 2 week period. Hurricane Dean made its first landfall as a category 5 hurricane near Costa Maya on August 20th, then made a second landfall as a category 2 hurricane near Tecolutla, Veracruz on August 22nd. Currently, there is another low pressure system that is basically stalled out near Bermuda, but shear and the presence of dry air have really kept this thing from doing much developing. Forecasters are not looking for this trend to continue, and are still looking for further development before this system moves towards land.