More progress made after Amory tornado

Baseball and softball teams at Amory High School have been playing away games since the 2023 tornado destroyed their fields. However, significant progress has been made toward again allowing those teams to play their games at home.

Construction started earlier this year on new facilities at the original location of those ballfields — construction that was delayed because the city had to wait on federal approval so it could transfer the property to the school district.

The Monroe Journal reported earlier this month work on those ballfields is on schedule,

Baseball and softball seasons for the Panthers will start in February.

Meanwhile, something else will come out of the ground not far from the high school.

A fence now surrounds the property on Highway 25 where the Amory National Guard Armory once stood before the tornado destroyed it.

It appears work has started on the site where the National Guard has plans for its new home to be built.

That home is now being referred to as a readiness center instead of an armory, a move the military made with its facilities several years ago.

Merry Christmas

And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.
Luke 2:10-11 KJV

How TV weather has changed

Found this report below on Harold Taft, the meteorologist credited with launching the country’s first regular television weather segment on Halloween of 1949 on what was then WBAP-TV (now KXAS-TV) in Dallas-Fort Worth. He also did the weather on the overnight trucking show on WBAP-AM, which was heard across the country. Taft’s final television weathercast was in August 1991. He died from cancer a month later at age 69.

A lot of truth in this lyric

Well, ain’t life funny how the world goes ’round
You make all of that money, they still put you in the ground
from “Secondhand Smoke,” written by Vince Gill/Derrick Southerland

Kickoffs and tipoffs

Merry Christmas, KFC

KFC is not the usual stop for folks on Christmas in the United States. In Japan, however, people make it a priority to visit the home of the Colonel to recognize this special day. Jefferson Graham shares what he found out in his latest episode of “PhotowalksTV.”

Kickoffs and tipoffs

First forecast for Christmas

The National Weather Service has issued its first forecast for Christmas. Above is the forecast for Tupelo with only slight differences for other parts of Northeast Mississippi.

Bitter cold coming

A mild Saturday will give way to bitter cold Sunday into Monday with it feeling like it’s in the teens or single digits across Northeast Mississippi. They won’t be as low in the Golden Triangle as it will be in Corinth, but it’ll still be cold.

The low temperatures/wind chills will first arrive Sunday morning. There will be a slight rise during the day, but the low temperatures/wind chills arrive again after sunset Sunday and stick around into early Monday. As the north winds subside, we’ll actually be a little warmer Monday.

Looking ahead, the government’s long range forecast for the week of Christmas has temperatures above normal.