457 FXUS64 KJAN 201800 AFDJANArea Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Jackson MS 100 PM CDT Sat Sep 20 2025
...New DISCUSSION...
.DISCUSSION... Issued at 1252 PM CDT Sat Sep 20 2025
Tonight through Tuesday...Despite the Autumn Equinox coming Monday, September 22, 2025 at 1819Z, the next few days will essentially be an extension of what`s been a hot summer this year. Highs through Tuesday will continue to warm into the low and middle 90s with lows from the middle 60s to lower 70s. Moisture will subtly increase across the region during this time, causing increasingly humid conditions each day. Rain chances will remain diurnally driven and in the form or mainly isolated showers and storms, with a stray storm or two intense enough to produce some gusty winds. These will gradually subside during the early evening hours. Things will begin to change across the area late Tuesday night into Wednesday. /19/
Wednesday through Friday...The forecast gets more interesting during the middle of next week. Global models have trended more amplified with a shortwave trough expected to dig southward through the Mississippi Valley region. As the trough digs and deep layer flow increases, a developing surface wave and strengthening warm sector will lower pressures over the forecast area Wednesday. This could result in a threat for strong to marginally severe multicell clusters and perhaps a few supercells if the cold frontal timing and storm initiation coincide with peak heating. We are currently not messaging for severe weather in our graphics and products, but it may be a potential threat to monitor as we go through the next few days.
Going into late week, the trough should slowly shift east, which could prolong the potential for beneficial rainfall as cyclonic flow lingers. Otherwise, temperatures will cool to near typical values for late September. /EC/
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.AVIATION... (18Z TAFS) Issued at 1252 PM CDT Sat Sep 20 2025
VFR conditions will prevail at all TAF sites through the period. Isolated SHRA or TSRA are possible after 18Z, but confidence in impacts from thunder was too low to mention in TAFs at this time. /CR/
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.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... Jackson 71 93 69 92 / 20 20 10 10 Meridian 69 94 67 92 / 20 20 10 10 Vicksburg 70 94 69 92 / 10 10 10 10 Hattiesburg 69 95 69 93 / 20 10 10 10 Natchez 69 93 67 91 / 10 10 10 10 Greenville 69 93 69 93 / 10 20 10 10 Greenwood 69 95 69 93 / 10 20 20 10
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.JAN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... MS...None. LA...None. AR...None. &&
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