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Partly sunny today with winds from the SW at 10-15 mph. Our high will be around 70 with a low tonight of 60. We have a 40% chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight.  A line of scattered showers and thunderstorms should develop ahead of a cold front around 3 am Thursday morning. An isolated storm could be strong but it appears that most of the stronger storms will be to our north closer to Union City and into Kentucky.

Thursday will begin mostly cloudy but will become partly cloudy later in the afternoon. The high on Thursday will probably be around 60 with temperatures near 50 by the middle of the afternoon. Winds will be from the SW early, then the NW at 10-15 mph with gust to 25 or 30 mph. Thursday night’s low will be in the lower 30’s. 

Mostly sunny Friday with highs in the middle 40’s, lows in the upper 20’s, and winds will be from the NW at 10-15 mph. Sunny on Saturday with highs in the middle 40’s and lows in the middle 30’s. 

Sunday will be mostly sunny with highs in the middle 50’s and lows in the upper 40’s. Mostly cloudy Monday with highs in the lower 60’s, lows in the lower 50’s, and a 40% chance for showers. Partly sunny Tuesday with highs in the middle 60’s.

Yesterday’s high in Olive Branch was 62. Our overnight low has been 58. The record high for this date was 77 in 1890 and the record low was -3 in 1918.

Rainfall recorded by midnight was 0.00”.  The total for the month is 3.20”. Year to date rainfall is 3.20 inches. 

The average high/low is 50 and 33. Sunrise is at 7:08 am and sunset is at 5:07 pm which is 1 minute and 2 seconds MORE daylight compared to yesterday.