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Turning Much Cooler Today With A Record Low Tonight

Short Term Forecast:  The cold front is moving through Baton Rouge and Southeast Louisiana This Morning.  We have cloudy skies with some showers.  Temperatures will fall from the upper 60s to the 50s all morning. Be sure to take your umbrella and jacket with you!

The cold front will slowly push east of Baton Rouge today.  We will have some lingering clouds and light rain into the early afternoon.  Then we will gradually become partly cloudy by the evening.  If we get some sun to pop out we will climb back to around 60. Otherwise, temperatures will stay into the 50s.

Get ready for a very unseasonably COLD night across Southeast Louisiana!  We will become clear and the very cold air will drain down from the Northern Plains states.  Due to the snow cover up there, the air will not warm up much.  Therefore, we will have lows in the upper 30s to lower 40s!!  I'm forecasting Baton Rouge to get down to 42.  That would break the record of 43 set back in 2011!  Now that is cold for May!!

Weekend Forecast:  A second upper-level low will form and move into the Southeast U.S. this weekend.  That will give us mostly sunny to partly cloudy skies on Saturday.  It will stay mild with highs in the lower 70s, but it will be chilly at night with lows in the upper 40s.

More clouds will return on Sunday as that upper-level low moves just northeast of Louisiana.  We will be mostly cloudy and a few light showers will be possible.  High temperatures will be around 70 and lows will be in the upper 40s.

Next Week Outlook:  The upper-level low will move northeast and out of the Deep South.  This will allow
us to gradually warm back up and have some nice weather next week.  Monday through Thursday will be mostly sunny to partly cloudy each day.  Highs will start out in the mid 70s on Monday, but will climb into the lower 80s by Thursday.  Lows will be in the mid 50s Monday Night and will be in the lower 60s by Thursday Night.

Our next weather system will be another cold front and it will move into town on Friday.  We will be partly to mostly cloudy with isolated showers and thunderstorms.  Highs will be in the lower 80s and lows in the 60s.

Get ready for some cold weather tonight and have a nice weekend! -Dave

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