When Will The Rain End?

Man, we have had some changes take place in Starkville this week. First of all, we got a decent amount of rain earlier in the week that really helped out with the current drought situation. Secondly, we got some much cooler weather to push into the area. This colder weather is all thanks to an upper level Low Pressure system that is currently situated in the northeastern part of the state. This thing got cut off from the jet stream and really lost its driving force, so for the past several days, it has just been drifting around the northern part of the state. Because of this, high temperatures over the past several days have really struggled to break the 50 degree mark, and we have also been left with lingering off-and-on showers/drizzle that have really made for a very dreary couple of days. We are looking for these showers to continue overnight tonight, but we finally get rid of them tomorrow and may actually see a few peaks of sunshine. How about that!?! That's something I'm really looking forward to. And guess what.....the further down the road we look, the better the forecast looks for our area. The weekend looks like we will get all those clouds and showers to clear out of here and actually start to warm up nicely with highs getting into the lower 70's and lows remaining in the mid to upper 40's. After a week like we've seen, I think the weekend is gonna feel GREAT!! So once again, try to get out and enjoy the pleasant weather this weekend!

Finally....Some Fall-Like Weather

The week started out a little on the hot side around Starkville, but we were able to get a cold front to push through the area on Tuesday morning. While it wasn't very much, that front actually brought us a little rain too. That first cold front didn't really cool us down very much, but it did help to dry the air out significantly for Tuesday. We had a second push of cold air come into the area on Tuesday afternoon that brought some much cooler weather with it and gave us some great weather for Wednesday. Today was absolutely gorgeous also as we had some beautiful sunny skies, and our high temperature only reached up to around 72 degrees. That combined with the very low dewpoint temperatures allowed for a very comfortable day outside. We can look for that nice weather to continue through tomorrow as we look for highs only to be in the mid-70s, and our lows tomorrow night to drop all the way into the mid-40's. So finally, a little bit of some fall-like weather for us around here. The weekend looks great also......we're gonna look for sunny skies to last through the weekend, but our temps will slowly begin to rise back up into the lower to mid-80's before our next chance of rain enters into the forecast by the beginning of next week.

Stuck In A Rut

This has once again been a very nice week here in Starkville. Unfortunately (I say unfortunately...some of you may think otherwise), we did not receive any rainfall in the area this week, but we came pretty close a few times. As you can see we are still in a fairly significant drought, and it doesn't look like we'll be getting any real help in breaking the drought any time soon. We will have a slight chance of rain/storms tomorrow with highs getting up to the upper 80's, and tomorrow night, we'll be dealing with mostly cloudy skies and lows only getting down into the upper 60's. We'll be looking for partly cloudy skies on Saturday and into Saturday night, and a small chance of rain enters the forecast on Sunday and goes through the day on Monday. These are only very small rain chances right now, so all-in-all, it looks like it will probably be a very nice weekend once again. And again, try to get outside and enjoy this weather.....maybe take a fishing trip or something like that!