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KEY MESSAGES

- Temperatures will warm to about 15 to 20 degrees above normal across the area during the Christmas holiday.

DISCUSSION

Issued at 202 AM CST Sat Dec 20 2025

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 tonight 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.

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

AVIATION

(12Z TAFS) Issued at 500 AM CST Sat Dec 20 2025

VFR flight categories will continue to prevail at area TAF sites through much of the forecast period. Around and after 06Z tonight, low stratus will begin to increase across the region. This will result in flight categories falling to a mix of MVFR/IFR categories toward sunrise Sunday. South winds will become increasingly breezy through this morning. By 18Z, south winds will be sustained between 10-15 knots, gusting to between 20-25 knots at times. This will especially be the case across the Delta region, i.e. KGLH & KGWO. These breezy winds will begin to subside around sunrise this evening, remaining from the south between 3-8 knots through much of the overnight hours. /19/

PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS

Jackson 70 56 68 54 / 0 20 50 20 Meridian 68 50 66 50 / 0 10 40 20 Vicksburg 71 58 68 56 / 0 30 70 20 Hattiesburg 74 55 75 56 / 0 10 50 40 Natchez 73 60 73 59 / 0 20 70 30 Greenville 66 52 60 50 / 0 50 30 20 Greenwood 68 53 61 49 / 0 40 40 10

JAN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES

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