The winds have shifted to the NW in the last 30 minutes as a cold front is on our doorstep... If you loop the radar/satellite you can see it entering Oktibbeha County... We are going to see a VERY noticeable change in our weather especially over the next two days... Tomorrow's high shouldn't even get to 60 as the NWS is going with 59 degrees... I think that will be fairly close... Not only will we see chilly temperatures but you will definitely notice the winds tomorrow... They will be gusting out of the NW tomorrow as high as 25mph... It will feel like the coldest day we have had since last March... Tuesday winds will be similar with a high near 60, but winds should slacken out of the NW to only around 5-10mph...
The low on Monday night will get very close to freezing... I'm sure we will see some patchy frost away from the city of Starkville... I know most of you may laugh at me calling Starkville a city, but I promise you even in a city of 30,000 people there is a heat island effect... I've actualy studied it myself when I was an undergrad... I bet near GTR we'll see temps at 31/32 degrees tomorrow night which is usually a few degrees cooler than Starkville... The only thing keeping it from going lower is the fact that the winds will be up... Tuesday looks like a lock for a freeze in Starkivlle and Oktibbeha County... Even the NWS has come down some and is calling for a low of 30 degrees Tuesday night... If the wind can go calm we will see temps in the upper 20's which will lead to a fairly hard freeze... I think frost will be common place all across the city/county as the growing season will officially come to an end... This is right on schedule though as we usually see our first freeze towards the end of October... We will warm up to the mid 60's on Wednesday and near 70 on Thursday but again the next two days is going to feel like the beginning of winter...
On a side note GTR only got up to 75 degrees today... Also the low got down to 39 degrees which goes to show you that the air mass was colder than models were picking up on... It will be interesting to see if that trend continues with the next cold front... Even a few degrees makes a big difference especially when you are taking about 32 degrees versus 29 degrees...
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