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KEY MESSAGES

- Frost and light freeze possible Saturday Morning.

- Temperatures will warm to about 15 to 20 degrees above normal across our forecast area for the Christmas holidays.

MESOSCALE UPDATE

Issued at 852 PM CST Fri Dec 19 2025

Clear skies prevail across the are this evening as strong surface high pressure prevails. A cold night is on tap with lows ranging from the upper 30s in the west to around freezing in the east. Some light frost or freeze is possible, especially for the eastern portions of the area./15/

DISCUSSION

Issued at 1205 PM CST Fri Dec 19 2025

Through Monday: As surface ridging shifts across the region, we are experiencing a mostly clear and seasonable day. One more cold night is in store for tonight with frost and light freeze potential, most likely the farther east you go in MS closer to that ridge axis. However, this is the last particularly cold morning we'll have for the remainder of this forecast period. Thanks to increasingly zonal upper level flow, the ridge will begin shifting east of the area today, with a return to southerly flow tonight into Saturday. This pattern will provide enough moisture for scattered light showers between late Saturday night and Monday afternoon as a glancing shortwave and weak surface front provide modest forcing. Though rain chances will persist over multiple days, both coverage and intensity will be limited, and some areas may receive no rain at all. Ridging will build back in early next week, bringing a return to dry weather. /DL/

Of interest, the 7-Day forecast now includes the Christmas Eve and Christmas Day holidays. Average temperatures will be pushing about 15-20 degrees warmer than normal for late December as we move into the holidays. A white Christmas is not expected, but Santa his reindeer may enjoy a more tropical experience passing through the region next week. /NF/

AVIATION

(18Z TAFS) Issued at 1107 AM CST Fri Dec 19 2025

VFR conditions will prevail through the TAF period. Winds will shift to southerly this afternoon into this evening and will become gusty during by late morning Saturday at most sites. /DL/

PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS

Jackson 57 37 69 54 / 0 0 0 20 Meridian 56 33 66 49 / 0 0 0 10 Vicksburg 58 38 71 56 / 0 0 0 30 Hattiesburg 60 36 72 53 / 0 0 0 10 Natchez 60 41 72 58 / 0 0 0 20 Greenville 53 37 66 51 / 0 0 0 40 Greenwood 53 37 66 52 / 0 0 0 40

JAN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES

MS...None. LA...None. AR...None.