Parts of Mississippi can expect snow, below-freezing temperatures, lows in the teens next week. Know how to prep your home, family, pets for the cold.

The National Weather Service says the chance for snow next Tuesday has risen to 40%. Its near environmental destruction is the result of numerous factors, including mice that had been introduced to the island, former phosphate mining, and hurricane destruction.

Parts of Mississippi can expect snow, freezing temperatures, lows in the teens next week. Know how to prep your home, family, pets for the cold.

A winter storm watch was issued by the National Weather Service on Saturday at 1:02 p.m. valid from Tuesday midnight until Wednesday midnight. The watch is for Richland, Madison, Franklin, Catahoula,

Parts of Mississippi can expect freezing temperatures, lows in the teens in the coming week. Know how to prep your home, family, pets for the cold.

A second round of winter weather, with the coldest temperatures this season, is headed to Mississippi next week and will likely impact travel conditions. The National Weather Service is forecasting sub-freezing temperatures and measurable snowfall that could extend from central Mississippi down to the Gulf Coast.

JACKSON, Miss. (WTVA) — Eleven counties reported damage, so far, following severe weather on Sunday, Jan. 5. Carroll, Hinds, Jasper, Jefferson Davis, Leake, Madison, Monroe, Noxubee, Rankin, Smith and Winston counties reported damage, the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) reported on Monday.

Champions Gym, located at 1355 West Hattiesburg St., will be opening Sunday at 6 p.m. for those in need of shelter, according to Chris Gray, the city's director of the Department of Constituent Services. The city is also asking for hot food donations.

The National Weather Service office in Jackson has determined that three of the storms that blew through the viewing area on Sunday night, January 5, were tornadoes.

The National Weather Service issued a winter storm watch at 3:03 a.m. on Saturday valid from Tuesday midnight until Wednesday midnight. The watch is for Upper Lafourche, Upper St. Bernard, Upper Terrebonne,

Dangerously cold weather spread over the Midwest on Saturday and is headed toward the East Coast, where temperatures well below seasonal norms are expected starting late Sunday and into next week.

The Mississippi State Department of Health has appointed Dr. Renia Dotson as the new State Epidemiologist. As Director of the Center for Public Health Transformation, Dotson was already responsible for all clinical and field services throughout the state.