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Cool Weather Today With A Warm-Up This Weekend

Short Term Forecast:  Brrr!!  We have a very chilly start to this Friday with temperatures in the lower 40s under clear skies.  Be sure to take that warm jacket with you to the bus stop and work!


An area of high pressure will sit north of Louisiana today and that will help to keep us cool.  At the same time, the jet stream, or river of winds where commercial airplanes fly, will send some high clouds over Baton Rouge from the west today.  These clouds will limit how warm we will get.  Expect high temperatures to be in the mid 60s.

Some of those high clouds will stick around tonight and that will give us partly cloudy skies.  We will not be too cold tonight because of those clouds, but it will still be chilly.  Lows will fall to the lower to mid 40s.

Weekend Forecast:  The area of high pressure will sit over the Southeast U.S. all weekend.  This means we will have some fantastic weather!  Saturday will still have some of those high clouds over the city, so we will be mostly sunny to partly cloudy.  High temperatures will be in the lower 70s and lows will not be as chilly as they fall to the lower 50s.

Sunday will have fewer clouds making it mostly sunny.  It will be warmer with highs in the mid 70s and lows in the lower 50s.

Football Forecast:  If you are headed to Tuscaloosa for the LSU vs Alabama game get ready for some cool temperatures.  It will be mostly cloudy with temps. in the 60s for tailgating, then in the 50s for the 7 PM kickoff and it will be around 50 by the end of the game. 

Southern will travel to Alabama as well to take on Alabama State in Montgomery at 1 PM.  According to my friend and fellow meteorologist, Josh Johnson at WSFA-TV in Montgomery, it will be cool with temps. in the 50s for tailgating, around 65 at kickoff and near 60 by the end of the game.

Next Week Outlook:  We will start the new week with more pleasant weather as the area of high pressure remains over the Southeast U.S.  I am not expecting a big warm-up since the winds will stay out of the east verses southeast.  Therefore Monday and Tuesday will be mostly sunny and mild with  highs in the lower to mid 70s.  Lows will be in the lower 50s on Monday Night, but it will turn much colder on Tuesday Night as a trough of low pressure sends a cold front through Baton Rouge.  We will stay dry with this front, but it will be chilly with lows in the mid 40s.


The trough will swing across the Eastern U.S. on Wednesday, and it will send some MUCH COLDER air all the way to the Gulf Coast.  Wednesday will be partly cloudy with highs only in the lower 60s.  Wednesday Night will be clear and COLD with lows in the upper 30s!!  That would be the first time we hit the 30s in Baton Rouge this season.

Some clouds will stick around on Thursday and Friday with a few showers possible.  It will remain cool with highs in the mid 60s and lows in the lower to mid 40s.

Tropical Outlook:  Everything is staying quiet in the Tropical Atlantic Basin, and I am not expecting anything to form through the weekend.

Super Typhoon Haiyan made landfall in the Philippines early this morning.  Winds were sustained at 195 mph!!!!  This is likely going to be the strongest winds ever recorded at landfall across the world!  Devastating damage is occurring and there will be a lot of lives lost.  Thoughts and prayers go out to all of those living there.

Bundle up and have a great weekend! -Dave

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