Yeah, things may not shake out to be quite as nice next week. While this week features sunshine, highs in the 70s and dry air. Next week looks to feature humidity, rain, and storms. In…
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Gulf Coast March frost estimates
I’ve received a handful of requests from folks asking about Growing Season frosts during the rest of March and April. This is a tricky thing to forecast because frosts – especially late-season frosts, have as…
Wx Info: What is Needle Ice?
During the cold weather, I received a handful of emails and messages with some great pictures of a unique weather phenomenon: Needle Ice. Often times, when the air is below freezing, the ground is wet…
NHC to issue Tropical Outlooks two weeks earlier
The National Hurricane Center announced March 2, 2021 that Tropical Weather Outlooks will now begin on May 15th for the Atlantic Hurricane season. From the NHC: Public Information Statement NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL…
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Wx Info: Explaining Gravity Waves
Recently across many parts of the country there have been multiple reports of people seeing “waves in the sky” during the afternoon. I’ve even posted a few pics on my facebook page and Twitter account,…
What started with “Hail Season” ended with disproving another ‘Old Wives Tale’ – sorry!
In my never-ending quest to learn everything I can about South Mississippi weather, I wanted to see if March was in fact “hail season” as I’ve dubbed it, or if it just felt like a…
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Wx Safety: Getting Flood Insurance
Year-after-year we are reminded why Flood Insurance is so important. Whether it is the Flash Flooding events of 2018 in Petal or the multi-day rainfall event of 2016 in Marion and Lamar counties – flooding…
Less than 100 days until Hurricane Season
While it feels like the 2020 Hurricane Marathon…err, I mean… Season just finished. we are about three months away from the start of the 2021 Hurricane Season. The National Hurricane Center tweeted out the reminder…
WX Info: What is atmospheric ducting?
There are a few types of atmospheric ducting that a lot of you are probably aware of – some without thinking about it! A lot of us have listened to a radio station from far…
Wednesday’s storms in South Mississippi were a once-in-a-lifetime event
There are plenty of once-in-a-lifetime weather events for people living in south Mississippi. Usually it is things like tornadoes and hurricanes, though. In recent years, the December 8th, 2017 snowfall could be put on the…
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