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KEY MESSAGES

- Warm and dry weather through early next week.

- Monitoring for increasing fire danger threat this weekend.

DISCUSSION

Issued at 120 AM CDT Wed Mar 25 2026

Through the rest of the week: Surface high pressure and increasing heights aloft will combine to result in increasing temperatures this week with afternoon highs in the 80s F. A cold front will slip south into this weekend but with continued subsidence/ridging aloft the boundary will be unlikely to produce more than a period of increased cloudiness followed by a dip in temperatures and humidity into the weekend.

This weekend and beyond: Following a brief dip in temperatures (highs upper 60s F and lower 70s F) on Saturday, we'll start to rebound quickly into Sunday and next week with afternoon temperatures back into the 80s F. Humidity will begin to increase heading into next week as we emerge once again into the western flank of surface high pressure and a return to southerlies.

Unfortunately, little in the way of rain chances are expected for the next 7 days with the chances for meaningful rainfall perhaps not coming until well beyond that time. High uncertainty with spring weather can yield large forecast adjustments in the 7-10 day ranges, so some chance for a wetter pattern may emerge but it certainly seems more likely than not that drought conditions will worsen over the next week and beyond. /86/

AVIATION

(06Z TAFS) Issued at 117 AM CDT Wed Mar 25 2026

VFR conditions are expected to prevail at the TAF sites through the period. Initially light and variable winds will turn out of the southeast and south by around 15Z today. /NF/

PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS

Jackson 83 61 85 59 / 0 0 0 0 Meridian 82 59 85 59 / 10 0 0 0 Vicksburg 85 60 85 59 / 0 0 0 0 Hattiesburg 83 60 85 60 / 10 0 0 0 Natchez 84 61 85 60 / 0 0 0 0 Greenville 83 62 85 60 / 0 0 0 0 Greenwood 84 63 86 61 / 0 0 0 0

JAN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES

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