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Unsettled And Cooler Weather Headed Our Way

Short Term Forecast:  A cold front is slowly making its way into Baton Rouge this morning.  We have mostly cloudy skies with isolated showers and mist popping up ahead and along it for the morning commute.  Temperatures are around 70.


We will see more showers and mostly cloudy skies through the early afternoon as the cold front moves into and through the city.  It will be a cooler day with highs in the upper 70s.

The front will stall along the Louisiana Coast tonight and that will be far enough south to temporarily end the rain.  We will have partly cloudy skies and it will become MUCH COOLER with lows in the upper 50s.

Most of Friday will be a decent day with partly cloudy skies.  We will start to see some showers popping up later in the day as an area of low pressure is forecast to form in the Western Gulf of Mexico along the stalled cold front.  High temperatures will be in the upper 70s.

Plenty of rain and thunderstorms are expected on Friday Night into Saturday as the low moves along the cold front and taps in to the tropical moisture south of the front.  Some heavy rain will be possible!  Lows will be in the upper 50s.

Weekend Forecast:  The rain will  last from Saturday Morning through the afternoon before it tapers off late in the day as the low rides along the front.  Some heavy rain is possible in some of the thunderstorms.  High temperatures will be in the mid 70s.  A trough of low pressure will swing through Baton Rouge on Saturday Night and that will put an end to the rain.  We will become cooler with lows in the mid 50s.


Sunday will be a nice, dry and cooler/less humid day as that trough moves through.  We will be partly cloudy with highs in the mid 70s.  Sunday Night will be mostly clear and cool with lows in the mid 50s.

Tropical Outlook:  There is a area of low pressure located just north of Bermuda.  It is producing disorganized showers and thunderstorms as it gets ready to merge with a cold front.  Conditions are not favorable for this system to form into anything.  NHC is giving it a low chance of becoming a subtropical or tropical system during the next 5 days.


Elsewhere...the rest of the tropics are quiet.

Take your umbrella with you and have a great Thursday! -Dave

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