Marine Weather and Tide Forecast for Vidalia, LA

DISCUSSION
Issued at 127 PM CST Tue Jan 13 2026

Tonight through early next week Tuesday...

Near term guidance shows a Baja low over south Texas ejecting east across the Gulf resulting in weak moisture return flow over south MS tonight. This will result in a slight chance of scattered rain showers generally for areas along and south of I-20, with PoPs around 20-35%. Areas north of I-20 will remain quiet. Cloud cover will continue to build from the west across our CWA as we head into the overnight period. Overnight lows will dip into the low/mid 40s areawide. Scattered rain showers will develop across north/central portions of the area Wednesday morning/late Wednesday afternoon.
Daytime highs will peak in the upper 50s/low 60s across our forecast area.

Guidance continues to show a series of reinforcing cold fronts pushing across the southeast CONUS Wednesday night through the late week which will help maintain dry air. Conditions remain favorable for freezing/subfreezing overnight temperatures through early next week. With that in mind, dangerous cold is not anticipated for much of the area, however GTR will continued to be monitored for cold headlines. In the wake of this front, cold weather headlines/advisories may be needed for Wednesday night and Saturday night. We will hold off on mentioning any HWO graphics for right now.

We will start to see a little break from the cold regime around mid next week towards the end of the extended period as future guidance shows a 1028mb sfc high over the Tennessee Valley. This sfc high will help bring in southerly flow across much of our area allowing for nighttime lows to return to above freezing across much of our CWA, with the exception being Golden Triangle (lows in the mid/upper 20s), by Tuesday night. Scattered rain showers will make a return across our area heading into Wednesday, with slightly higher rain chances (PoPs around 30%) for areas west of I-55 including several of our northeast LA parishes. /CR/

AVIATION
(00Z TAFS)
Issued at 613 PM CST Tue Jan 13 2026

VFR conditions were observed at all TAF sites at 2330Z but SHRA noted on local radars just sw of HEZ wl spread across southern and central TAF sites tonight and bring lower flying conditions. After 12Z a cold front will drop into the nw and bring SHRA and lower flying conditions to the northern and cntrl TAF sites. A wind shift to the nw followed by gusts 18-22kts wl also occur with the cold front. MVFR cigs and the gusty wind wl continue through the end of the TAF period. /22/

PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS
Jackson 44 57 28 44 / 20 20 0 0 Meridian 41 56 26 44 / 20 20 10 0 Vicksburg 44 58 29 45 / 20 20 0 0 Hattiesburg 43 63 31 49 / 40 10 10 0 Natchez 45 62 30 47 / 40 10 0 0 Greenville 43 54 26 42 / 0 40 0 0 Greenwood 43 54 25 42 / 0 50 0 0

JAN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES
MS...None.
LA...None.
AR...None.