Skip to main content

Chilly and Sunny Weather Is Expected For Christmas Day

Christmas Eve Night:  We will be clear as an area of high pressure sits over us.  Dress warmly as you head to any family gatherings or church services this evening.  Temperatures will be falling into the 40s and 30s.  It will be very cold again overnight with low temperatures falling to the upper 20s as Santa passes through Baton Rouge.  Everyone will need to bundle up!


Christmas Day Forecast:  Get ready for a beautiful and cool Christmas!  The area of high pressure will move northeast of us, and some clouds will stream in from the Gulf of Mexico.  This will make it partly cloudy and cool with high temperatures in the upper 50s.  Christmas Night will be partly cloudy and still chilly with lows in the lower 30s.


Rest of the Week:  A weak and dry cold front will move through Baton Rouge on Thursday.  This will just give us partly cloudy skies and it will fall apart as it moves through.  It will be a little warmer with highs around 60.  Thursday Night will be mostly clear and chilly with lows in the lower to mid 30s.

Friday will be a pleasant day with mostly sunny skies as another area of high pressure moves over the Southeast U.S.  We will be a few degrees warmer with highs in the lower 60s and lows in the mid 30s.

Weekend Outlook:  The area of high pressure will stay over us on Saturday with partly cloudy skies and the warming trend will continue with high temperatures in the lower 60s.  Look for a few clouds on Saturday Night with lows in the upper 30s.


More clouds will increase over Baton Rouge on Sunday ahead of a cold front.  This front will not have much moisture to work with, so we will mainly see some clouds.  However, a spotty shower is possible late in the day.  Highs will be in the mid 60s.  Sunday Night will be mostly cloudy with a few showers as the cold front moves into Baton Rouge.  Lows will be in the upper 30s as the front passes through overnight into Monday Morning.

I want to wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas!  -Dave

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Comparison between Hurricane Matthew's possible forecast track loop vs Hurricane Betsy's

Some of you have been calling to say that Matthew's forecast to do a loop in the Atlantic Ocean off the SE U.S. is the same as what Hurricane Betsy did back in 1965. Well...that is not true. Betsy formed on August 27, 1965 just off the Leeward Islands. It quickly became a tropical storm on the same day, and then became a hurricane on August 29.  It made a few loops in its track with one north of Puerto Rico and a second north of the Bahamas.  There is a strong area of high pressure that was preventing Betsy from moving to the north, and that is what caused it to loop.  After the second loop, it then moved SW across the Bahamas, then turned west to move over far South Florida and then into the Gulf.  It eventually turned to the NW and quickly tracked right to New Orleans where it made landfall as a major hurricane on September 9th. Hurricane Matthew formed in the Atlantic east of the Leeward Islands as a tropical storm on September 28. It quickly moved west into t...
1 comment
Read more

The Great Flood of 1983

It was 30 years ago that the Baton Rouge area experienced what is likely the worst flood in its history!  On April 5-9, 1983 we were hit with 6 to 13 inches of rain from a slow-moving storm.  This rain quickly ran off into the Amite, Comite, Tickfaw and Tangipahoa River Basins.  Some of the highest rainfall totals were in the headwaters of the Amite River in the Felicianas and South Mississippi.  Also, there were some strong easterly winds which slowed down the water from draining into Lake Maurepas and Pontchartrain.  These were some of the reasons why the flooding occurred in Baton Rouge & Denham Springs.  The weather map to the right shows the weather for April 8, 1983. A stalled front over the Southeast U.S. lead to the heavy rain event and flooding. The rivers quickly rose and spilled out of their banks.  The rain didn't stop, so the water continued to rise and rise.  Rivers rose to what are still the record levels.  The Amite in D...
18 comments
Read more

The Unseasonably Cool Weather Continues

Short Term Forecast :  It is a very cold morning across the Capital City with clear skies and temperatures in the 30s.  A light freeze is expected!  I hope that you brought in your plants last night.  Take that jacket with you this morning. An area of high pressure remains over the Southeast U.S. today.  This will keep us sunny and with the northwest winds over us, we will stay cool.  High temperatures will be in the upper 50s. Another freeze is expected tonight for the Baton Rouge area.  We will be clear with calm winds and very good radiational cooling.  Low temperatures will fall into the upper 20s to lower 30s.  The NWS has issued a Freeze Warning for areas along and north of the I-10/12 corridor from 2 AM to 8 AM Wednesday Morning.  The freeze could last 2 to 6+ hours and that would be long enough to kill any vegetation.  Make sure you bring in your plants or at least cover them tonight!  Bundle ...
34 comments
Read more