Sunny, Chilly

In my eight and a half years of living in Starkville, this past weekend will go down in my books as the wildest weather weekend I've experienced. From severe weather and flooding on Friday and Saturday morning to snow Saturday night and Sunday morning. Yesterday's snow was aided by a deformation zone that move through, which provided the burst of heavier precipitation. Despite the warm, wet ground, the heavy snow eventually stuck and resulted in accumulations around 2" in most places. As is usually the case with late season upper level low events, the snow quickly melted by late Sunday morning. We'll now turn our attention to much warmer weather this week.

However, before we do that, we'll have to first endure a couple of cool days. Although the computer models don't show anything in the way of cloud cover today, there are a few mid and upper level clouds being accompanied by a strong jet streak to our north. I feel that most of the day will be mostly sunny, but a few passing clouds will prevent full sunshine. This shouldn't play a significant impact on high temperatures today so I'll forecast a high of 45. Skies should be clear by this evening and it looks like we'll experience decent radiational cooling conditions. Therefore, I'll forecast a low of 24 tomorrow morning.