Sunday, November 24, 2013

Winter Weather to Start the Week

An early season winter event will affect Mississippi as early as tomorrow morning and into Tuesday night. This is a very early in the season for this type of weather! In fact a Winter Weather Advisory has been posted in the Delta due to the likelihood of accumulating sleet tomorrow.

Winter Weather Advisory


URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
135 PM CST SUN NOV 24 2013

...LIGHT SLEET ACCUMULATIONS WILL BE LIKELY IN THE ARKLAMISS DELTA
OVERNIGHT INTO MID MONDAY MORNING...

MOISTURE FROM A DEVELOPING SYSTEM WILL MOVE OVER A REMNANT COLD
AIRMASS IN PLACE OVER THE ARKLAMISS DELTA THAT WILL LIKELY ALLOW FOR
PERIODS OF SLEET TO OCCUR OVERNIGHT INTO MID MONDAY MORNING. SOME
SLEET COULD COME DOWN IN HEAVY ENOUGH BURSTS TO ACCUMULATE...
ESPECIALLY ON ELEVATED BRIDGES AND ROADWAYS. WHILE SLEET AND A SLEET
AND RAIN MIX WILL BE THE PREDOMINANT PRECIPITATION TYPE...SOME
PATCHES OF FREEZING RAIN APPEAR POSSIBLE ALSO. WINTER HAZARDS FOR
THIS REGION WILL DECREASE BY MONDAY AFTERNOON AS TEMPERATURES SLOWLY
WARM INTO THE MID 30S.


ARZ074-075-LAZ007-MSZ018-019-025-034-250345-
/O.NEW.KJAN.WW.Y.0002.131125T0600Z-131125T1800Z/
ASHLEY-CHICOT-MOREHOUSE-BOLIVAR-SUNFLOWER-LEFLORE-WASHINGTON-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CROSSETT...NORTH CROSSETT...HAMBURG...
WEST CROSSETT...DERMOTT...LAKE VILLAGE...EUDORA...BASTROP...
CLEVELAND...INDIANOLA...RULEVILLE...GREENWOOD...GREENVILLE
135 PM CST SUN NOV 24 2013

...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO
NOON CST MONDAY...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A WINTER
WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SLEET...WHICH IS IN EFFECT
FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO NOON CST MONDAY.

* TIMING: HIGHEST CHANCE OF ACCUMULATING SLEET WILL BE BETWEEN 4AM
  AND 10AM MONDAY MORNING WITH LESS THAN ONE TENTH OF AN INCH
  EXPECTED.

* ACCUMULATION: LESS THAN ONE TENTH OF AN INCH OF SLEET IS EXPECTED

* MAIN IMPACT: HAZARDOUS DRIVING CONDITIONS COULD DEVELOP ON ELEVATED
  ROADWAYS AND BRIDGES IN THE ARKLAMISS DELTA REGION


PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SLEET MEANS PERIODS OF SLEET ARE
IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. SLEET MAY CAUSE DRIVING TO BECOME
EXTREMELY DANGEROUS...SO BE PREPARED TO USE CAUTION WHEN
TRAVELING. IN ADDITION..SOME POCKETS OF FREEZING RAIN COULD ALSO
OCCUR BUT THIS IS NOT LIKELY WITH ALREADY WET GROUND AND ROAD
TEMPERATURES.


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ALLEN

Early tomorrow morning, preciptation should begin moving into parts of the state, falling frozen in the form of sleet, and maybe even a touch of freezing rain. As the day progresses most areas will change over to rain with sleet mixing in at times. Then later in the evening and overnight there is potential for light accumulating snow and/or sleet in North MS. I would not be surprised if an advisory is extended further north later for that situation. The last time Mississippi recieved snow accumulation in November was 2011, and before that it was 1991! So we will see what happens with
 this.



 




 


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