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A Cold Front Will Bring Us Some Rain Today And Cooler Weather Tuesday

Short Term Forecast:  We start this Monday with mostly cloudy skies and scattered showers.  A few thunderstorms are also popping up mainly south of I-10.  This is ahead of a cold front that will move through later this morning.  It is very warm and humid with temperatures in the 70s.


The cold front will be along the coast by this afternoon.  The rain will come to an end and the sky will become partly cloudy.  It will not turn immediately cooler behind the front since the colder air is lagging behind it.  However, it will become less humid.  High temperatures will still be in the upper 70s.

The cooler air will arrive tonight across the Baton Rouge area.  Expect mostly clear skies with low temperatures in the upper 40s.

Week Ahead:  An area of high pressure will sit over Louisiana on Tuesday and this will bring us some gorgeous weather.  We will be sunny and cool with high temperatures in the upper 60s.  Tuesday Night will be mostly clear with lows in the upper 40s.


The area of high pressure will move east of Louisiana on Wednesday.  A warm front will move up from the Gulf of Mexico late in the day and this will shift the winds from the northeast to the southeast.  This allow for the warmer and more humid air to return.  We will have partly cloudy skies and a shower or two is forecast to pop-up later in the day.  Highs will be in the mid 70s.  Wednesday Night will be mostly cloudy with scattered showers developing over us as the warm front moves over us .  Lows will be much warmer as they only fall to the lower 60s.

Thursday will remain warm and humid as the warm front moves north of Baton Rouge.  Scattered showers are expected to developing throughout the day thanks to daytime heating.  Highs will be in the upper 70s.  Thursday Night will have a few showers with lows in the lower 60s.

A few disturbances will move across the state on Friday.  They will set off scattered showers as they tap into the warm and humid air.  Highs will be in the upper 70s and lows in the mid 60s Friday Night with a few more showers.

Weekend Outlook:  A cold front will move across the Deep South on Saturday.  We will once again have scattered showers and a few thunderstorms.  Highs will be in the lower 70s.  Saturday Night will turn cooler behind the front and the rain will come to an end.  Lows will be in the mid 40s.

Sunday will turn out to be a nice day with mostly sunny to partly cloudy skies.  Highs will be in the lower 60s and lows in the lower 40s.

Tropical Outlook:  I'm watching a non-tropical area of low pressure in the Central Atlantic Ocean.  Conditions are favorable for some development over this during the next few days.  It could become a subtropical or tropical system.  NHC is giving it a high chance for development over the next 5 days as it moves to the northeast and north.


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

Grab your umbrella this morning and have a great Monday! -Dave

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