New Orleans weather

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We had some relief from the heat and drought the last full week of June, but the pattern has shifted back. The pattern should change somewhat again starting July 4, giving us our daily showers and storms again.

June has been the driest and hottest on record for Louisiana.

MIDNIGHT CONDITIONS

McCOMB
No report

HAMMOND
77°, No sky condition

BATON ROUGE
82°, Clear

SLIDELL
83°, Partly cloudy

GULFPORT
86° (Heat Index 97°), No sky condition

BILOXI
86° (98°), Clear

PASCAGOULA
82°, Clear

BAY ST. LOUIS
No report

NEW ORLEANS-LAKEFRONT ARPT
85°, Partly Cloudy

NEW ORLEANS-AUDUBON PARK
82°, No sky report

NEW ORLEANS INT'L
81°, Mostly cloudy

BELLE CHASSE
78°, Partly cloudy

GALLIANO
79°, Clear

HOUMA
79°, Clear

BOOTHVILLE
85°, Partly cloudy

PORT FOURCHON
86° (97°), Partly cloudy


FRANKLINTON FORECAST

Saturday: A 10 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after noon. Sunny and hot, with a high near 96. West wind around 5 mph becoming calm.

Saturday Night: A 10 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 9pm. Partly cloudy, with a low around 72. South wind between 5 and 10 mph.

Sunday: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 11am. Mostly sunny and hot, with a high near 95. Southwest wind around 5 mph.

Sunday Night: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 1am. Partly cloudy, with a low around 72. South wind around 5 mph becoming west.

Independence Day: Scattered showers and thunderstorms after 11am. Mostly sunny, with a high near 94. Chance of precipitation is 30%.

Monday Night: Isolated showers and thunderstorms before 11pm. Partly cloudy, with a low around 72. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

Tuesday: Scattered showers and thunderstorms. Partly sunny and hot, with a high near 95. Chance of precipitation is 40%.

Tuesday Night: A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 73.

Wednesday: Scattered showers and thunderstorms. Partly sunny, with a high near 93.

Wednesday Night: A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 73.

Thursday: Scattered showers and thunderstorms. Mostly sunny, with a high near 93.

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After another streak of hot, dry weather, the Gulf South region has been kind of soggy as of late as showers and storms have plagued the area...not because of the normal afternoon variety of storms but because of disturbances going around the upper high that has been putting a beat down on the Plains states with brutally hot weather.

6 PM CONDITIONS

HAMMOND
77° Rain

BATON ROUGE
80° (Heat Index 86°) Light Rain

McCOMB
76° Scattered Clouds

SLIDELL
76° Light Rain

BAY SAINT LOUIS
79° Light Rain

GULFPORT
78° Scattered Clouds

BILOXI
78° Mostly Cloudy

PASCAGOULA
78° Mostly Cloudy

NEW ORLEANS LAKEFRONT AIRPORT
80° (86°) Light Rain

NEW ORLEANS INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
80° (84°) Light Rain

BELLE CHASSE
77° Light Rain

GALLIANO
82° (91°) Clear

HOUMA
81° (86°) Scattered Clouds

PORT FOURCHON
No Report

GRAND ISLE
No Report

BOOTHVILLE
84° (93°) Clear


SATURDAY EVENING
Mostly cloudy, hot, and humid with a 80% chance for scattered showers or thunderstorms..some downpours possible. Highs in the upper 80s, but it will feel like 90-100. Wind SW 5-10 mph.

SATURDAY NIGHT
Mostly cloudy, very mild, and muggy with a 30% chance for spotty showers or thunderstorms. Lows around 76. Wind S 5-10 mph.

SUNDAY
Mostly cloudy, hot, and humid with a 70% chance for scattered showers or thunderstorms..some downpours possible. Highs around 90, but it will feel like 95-105. Wind S 6-12 mph.

SUNDAY NIGHT
Mostly cloudy, very mild, and muggy with a 30% chance for spotty showers or thunderstorms. Lows around 76. Wind S 5-10 mph.

MONDAY
Mostly cloudy, hot, and humid with a 60% chance for scattered showers or thunderstorms..some downpours possible. Highs around 91, but it will feel like 95-105.

TUESDAY
Clouds & sunshine, hot and humid with a 30% chance for a few scattered showers or thunderstorms. Lows around 76. Highs around 94 but it will feel like 100-110.

WEDNESDAY
Partly cloudy, hot and humid with a 20% chance for isolated showers or thunderstorms. Lows around 78. Highs around 96 but it will feel like 100-110.

THURSDAY
Clouds & sunshine, hot, and humid with a 30% for spotty showers or thunderstorms. Lows around 78. Highs around 94, but it will feel like 100-110.


RADAR (Click to animate)

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Evening gang.

It's been a wet weather pattern across the area since I last posted...and it's putting a good dent in our drought and rain deficit. Today alone, New Orleans Int'l set a rainfall record for this date with 3.27 inches of rain, breaking the old record of 3.08 inches back in 1998. This also puts New Orleans more than five inches above normal for the month and gives the city the fifth wettest July ever on record. However, the city is still roughly 5.5 inches below normal for the year. Some street flooding occurred on the east bank of Jefferson Parish.

To sum things up: Don will stay south of us, but the high steering Don will move over us for the weekend and reduce rain chances. Above normal rain chances return next week.



10 PM CONDITIONS

NEW ORLEANS INT'L
Cloudy, 78°

LAKEFRONT ARPT
Mostly cloudy, 80°

BELLE CHASSE
Cloudy, 79°

SLIDELL
Cloudy, 79°

BATON ROUGE
Cloudy, 79°

HAMMOND
No report

GALLIANO
Mostly cloudy, 81°

BOOTHVILLE
Partly cloudy, 79°

HOUMA
Mostly Cloudy, 79°

PORT FOURCHON
Clear, 82°

McCOMB
Partly cloudy, 76°

BAY SAINT LOUIS
Partly cloudy, 81°

GULFPORT
Partly cloudy, 79°

KEESLER AFB
No report

PASCAGOULA
Partly cloudy, 78°


REGIONAL FORECAST

THURSDAY NIGHT/FRIDAY MORNING
Mostly cloudy, mild, and muggy with a 10% chance for an isolated shower or thunderstorm. Lows around 79. Wind SE 5-10 mph.

FRIDAY
Mostly cloudy, hot, and humid with a 40% chance for a few scattered showers or thunderstorms. Highs around 93, but it will feel like 95-105. Wind SE 6-12 mph.

FRIDAY NIGHT
A 20% chance for an evening isolated shower or thunderstorm, otherwise becoming partly cloudy, mild, and muggy. Lows around 78. Wind E/SE 3-5 mph.

SATURDAY
Partly cloudy, hot, and humid with a 20% chance for isolated showers or thunderstorms. Highs around 95, but it will feel like 100-110. Wind E/SE 5-10 mph.

SUNDAY
Partly cloudy, hot, and humid with a 20% chance for isolated showers or thunderstorms. Lows around 79. Highs around 95, but it will feel like 100-110.

MONDAY
Mostly cloudy, hot, and humid with a 50% chance for scattered showers or thunderstorms..some downpours possible. Lows around 79. Highs around 91, but it may feel like 95-100.

TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY
Mostly cloudy, hot, and humid with a 50% chance for scattered showers or thunderstorms..some downpours possible. Lows around 80. Highs around 91, but it will feel like 95-100.

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The humidity is in full effect down here. The entire region has been under heat advisories since Sunday, but today it's been upgraded to an excessive heat advisory until 7 pm. It could be extended into tomorrow.

Current conditions coming up soon.

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3 pm conditions

New Orleans Audubon Park
No Sky Report 94° (Heat Index 111°)

New Orleans Int'l
Mostly Sunny 94° (106°)

Lakefront Airport
Mostly Sunny 94° (110°)

Belle Chasse
Partly Cloudy 85°

Galliano
Partly Cloudy 95° (105°)

Port Fourchon
Partly Cloudy 91° (105°)

Boothville
Cloudy 90° (106°)

Houma
Mostly Sunny 91° (102°)

Baton Rouge
Mostly Sunny 94° (110)

Hammond
No Sky Report 99° (117°)

Slidell
Mostly Sunny 95° (109°)

McComb
Sunny 95° (107°)

Bay Saint Louis/Stennis Space Center
Mostly Sunny 97° (115°)

Gulfport
Mostly Sunny 91° (109°)

Biloxi
Mostly Sunny 92° (117°)

Pascagoula
Mostly Sunny 93° (108°)


EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING
An Excessive Heat Warning is in effect for all of SE LA and Coastal MS until 7PM Thursday. "Feels like" temperatures will be between 107-114 degrees. Take precautions if you plan on being outside for any length of time.

WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON
Clouds & sunshine, hot, and humid with a 10% chance for an isolated shower or thunderstorm. Highs around 96, but it will feel like 100-115. Wind W/SW 5-10 mph.

WEDNESDAY EVENING
Mostly clear, warm, and humid. Temperatures falling into the low and mid 80s. Wind SW 5-10 mph.

WEDNESDAY NIGHT
Mostly clear, warm, and humid. Lows around 80. Wind SW Around 5 mph.

THURSDAY
Partly cloudy, hot, and humid with a 10% chance for an isolated shower or thunderstorm. Highs around 96, but it will feel like 100-115. Wind W/SW 5-10 mph.

THURSDAY NIGHT
Mostly clear, very mild, muggy. Lows around 79. Wind SW Around 5 mph.

FRIDAY
Partly cloudy, hot, and humid with a 20% chance for an isolated shower or thunderstorm. Highs around 95, but it will feel like 100-115. Wind Variable 5-10 mph.

SATURDAY
Clouds & sunshine, hot, and humid with a 20% chance for isolated showers or thunderstorms. Lows around 79. Highs around 94, but it will feel like 100-110.

SUNDAY
Clouds & sunshine, hot, and humid with a 30% chance for spotty scattered showers or thunderstorms. Lows around 79. Highs around 94, but it will feel like 100-110.

[Pop Light Brown]

Hey guys,

Hurricane Irene did help us out in one way: cooler nights on the Northshore; yet that has resulted in temps near 100° the past few days. Sadly, the humidity is coming back; yet there's a silver lining in that too as rain chances will increase from here on out.

Right now, there's a huge marsh fire at the Bayou Savage National Wildlife Refuge in New Orleans East, which has resulted in smoky/smelly conditions and reduced visibilities across the immediate Southshore (Kenner, Metairie, New Orleans, Westbank):

Wildfire in New Orleans east to continue producing irritable
smoke...

A wildfire continues to burn marsh grasses in New Orleans east near
Interstate 10 and Interstate 510. During the first part of
tonight... light south to southeast winds are expected. This may
transport the smoke northward and could cause some minor impacts
across portions of the North Shore... including Mandeville...
Covington and Slidell. Winds are expected to calm later in the
night. This may result in smoke becoming trapped near the surface in
the vicinity of the fire... and could also result in reduced
visibility along interstates 10 and 510 as well as in the
surrounding areas.

Smoke may remain trapped near the surface through the mid morning
hours Wednesday before winds strengthen and help to disperse it
through the afternoon.

Smoke from the fire will continue to be a possible health issue
in the area for sensitive groups... including the elderly and
people with respiratory diseases such as asthma. People in these
sensitive groups should avoid prolonged outdoor activities and
exertion.

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS/BATON ROUGE 9:21 PM AUG 30, 2010

1 AM CONDITIONS
New Orleans Int'l
Partly Cloudy, 81° (Heat Index 85°)

New Orleans-Lakefront
Clear, 86° (92°)

Belle Chasse
Smoke, 73°

Houma
Clear, 73°

Galliano
Clear, 75°

Boothville
Clear, 81­° (85°)

Baton Rouge
Haze, 79°

Hammond
No Sky Report, 75°

Slidell
Clear, 73°

McComb
Haze, 75°

Bay Saint Louis
Clear, no temp

Gulfport
Clear, 75°

Biloxi
Clear, 78°

Pascagoula
Clear, 72°

TUESDAY NIGHT/WEDNESDAY MORNING
Clear, very mild, and a bit more humid. Lows north of the lake around 73 and south of the lake around 79. Wind SE 3-5 mph.

WEDNESDAY - REC KENNER 98, AUDUBON 98
Partly cloudy, hot, and more humid with a 10% chance for isolated showers or thunderstorms. Highs around 96, but it will feel like 95-105. Wind E/SE 6-12 mph.

WEDNESDAY NIGHT
Partly cloudy, very mild, and muggy with a 10% chance for an isolated shower or thunderstorm. Lows around 79. Wind E/SE 5-10 mph.

THURSDAY
Mostly cloudy, hot, and humid with a 40% chance for a few scattered showers or thunderstorms. Highs around 93, but it will feel like 95-105. Wind E/SE 10-15 mph.

FRIDAY
Mostly cloudy, breezy, hot, and humid with a 50% chance for scattered showers or thunderstorms. Lows around 79. Highs around 91, but it will feel like 95-100.

[Pop Light Brown]

Well, I did say rain chances were going to be increasing by the end of the week, but not like this: That wave in the Gulf is now TD #13 and will likely become TS Lee. That has really changed the forecast for the next several days. Eight to 15 inches of rain with isolated areas of up to twenty inches of rain is forecast across the entire region over the next several days.

WARNINGS/ADVISORIES

Tropical Storm Warnings are in effect for the entire SE Louisiana and Mississippi Gulf Coasts, including New Orleans and Lake Pontchartrain.

Inland Tropical Storm Warnings are in effect for: Ascension, Assumption, Jefferson, Lafourche, Livingston, Orleans, Plaquemines, St. Bernard, St. Charles, St. James, St. John the Baptist, St. Tammany, southern Tangipahoa and Terrebonne parishes and Harrison, Hancock and Jackson counties in Mississippi

A Flash Flood Watch is in effect until Sunday for the entire area except Pearl River County and the counties and northern parishes bordering the state line.

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UPDATE

Inland Tropical Storm Warning expanded to include all counties/parishes in the NWS New Orleans region.

Flash Flood Watch for the entire region until Monday. May be extended

Tornado Warning in effect until 5:30 pm CST for northern St. Bernard Parish.
* AT 456 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 9 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF YSCLOSKEY...OR 25 MILES EAST OF CHALMETTE...MOVING
  WEST AT 30 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  VIOLET

RADAR

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Moderate to occassionally heavy rain is now falling across my area...along with a slew of tornado warnings:

* Tornado Warning for...
northern St. Tammany Parish in southeast Louisiana...
this includes the city of Covington...
eastern Washington Parish in southeast Louisiana...
this includes the city of Bogalusa...
Hancock County in southern Mississippi...
Pearl River County in southern Mississippi...
this includes the cities of... Poplarville... Picayune...
extreme southeastern Walthall County in southern Mississippi...

* until 745 am CDT

* at 655 am CDT... National Weather Service meteorologists detected
a rain squall with multiple areas of rotation capable of producing
a tornado... moving northwest at 35 mph. The strongest area of
rotation is 14 miles southwest of McNeil.

* Other locations in the warning include but are not limited to Pearl
River... Bush... Abita Springs... Crossroads... sun... Varnado and Enon


* Tornado Warning for...
Jefferson Parish in southeast Louisiana...
this includes the cities of... Metairie... Marrero... Harvey...
Avondale...
Orleans Parish in southeast Louisiana...
this includes the cities of... New Orleans... east New Orleans...
northwestern Plaquemines Parish in southeast Louisiana...
this includes the city of Belle Chasse...
St. Bernard Parish in southeast Louisiana...
this includes the city of Chalmette...
southeastern St. Charles Parish in southeast Louisiana...

* until 800 am CDT

* at 709 am CDT... National Weather Service meteorologists detected
a strong rain squall with multiple embedded areas of rotation
capable of producing a tornado along a line extending from 8 miles
southeast of Yscloskey to 9 miles south of Pointe a la Hache... or
along a line extending from 21 miles north of Port Sulphur to 8
miles southwest of Port Sulphur... moving northwest at 45 mph.

* Other locations in the warning include but are not limited to
Myrtle Grove... LaFitte... Lake Catherine... Violet... Barataria... Jean
Lafitte... Terrytown... Gretna... Westwego... Waggaman... Harahan and
Bridge City

SELECTED OBSERVATIONS

Slidell
Rain, 73°

Hammond
Rain, 77°

Baton Rouge
Rain, 77°

Houma
Cloudy, 77°

New Orleans-Lakefront
Heavy Rain, 79°
Wind ESE 33 mpg gusting to 47

Belle Chasse
Heavy Rain, Mist, 79°
Wind ESE 29 mph gusting to 52

Galliano
Light Thunderstorm, Rain, 77°

Boothville
Heavy Rain 73°

Gulfport
Light Rain, 81°

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Lingering rains from the remains of Lee are moving out of SE Louisiana and across Mississippi as of this morning. Cooler and drier weather is moving into the area thanks to a cold front. However, there are still some advisories in effect:

* Tornado Watch 838 is in effect until 4 pm for Harrison and Jackson counties and Mississippi and Chandeleur sounds.

* A Wind Advisory is in effect until midnight tonight for all parishes south of Lake Pontchartrain and Lake Maurepas and until 4 pm today for the rest of SE Louisiana and southern Mississippi.

* Coastal Flood Warnings are in effect until 4 pm for coastal areas of Mississippi and SE Louisiana, including Lakes Pontchartrain and Maurepas and the rivers that feed into these two lakes.

* Numerous river flood warnings are in effect across the entire region.

* Flash Flood Watch until 4 pm for Washington Parish and southern Mississippi.

* Gale Warning for Lakes Pontchartrain and Maurepas and the coastal waters.


Current conditions coming up soon.

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Rain totals from Lee:

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Hello gang. I hope you all are well and I want to wish all of you Merry Christmas.

Things have been see-sawing back and forth in my area for the last week, giving me sinus issues. However, it appears that Christmas will be cool and wet here.

6 AM CONDITIONS
McCOMB
65° Fog

HAMMOND
68° Fog

BATON ROUGE
69° Cloudy

SLIDELL
68° Cloudy

HOUMA
70° Fog/Breezy

NEW ORLEANS INT'L
69° Mostly Cloudy

NEW ORLEANS LAKEFRONT
68° Cloudy

BELLE CHASSE
69° Cloudy

BOOTHVILLE
67° Fog

GALLIANO
68° Fog

GULFPORT
67° Fog

BILOXI
66° Fog

PASCAGOULA
68° Cloudy

TORNADO WATCH 898 is in effect until 1 pm today for all area counties and parishes except Plaquemines and Saint Bernard parishes and George, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, Pearl River and Stone counties. I believe it will be extended eastward as the day progresses.


FORECAST FROM WWL-TV
THURSDAY
Morning fog, then cloudy, mild, muggy, and breezy with a 70% chance for showers and thunderstorms…some may be strong. Highs around 75. Wind S/NW 10-18 mph.

THURSDAY NIGHT
Cloudy and cooler with a 20% chance for light rain or drizzle with patchy fog possible. Lows around 47. Wind N 8-15 mph.

FRIDAY
Morning fog possible, otherwise cloudy, breezy, and chilly with a 20% chance for light rain or drizzle. Highs around 61. Wind N 10-18 mph.

SATURDAY - CHRISTMAS EVE
Cloudy, breezy, and chilly with a 40% chance for rain and drizzle developing in the late afternoon. Chilly lows north of the lake around 41 and south of the lake around 46. Highs around 56, but it will feel like 40s.

SUNDAY - CHRISTMAS
Cloudy, breezy, and chilly with a 60% chance for rain and drizzle in the morning. Chilly lows around 44. Highs around 54, but it will feel like 40s.

MONDAY
Mostly cloudy, breezy, and cool. Chilly lows around 41. Highs around 60, but it may feel like 50s.

TUESDAY
Morning clouds followed by afternoon sunshine. Chilly lows north of the lake around 36 and south of the lake around 41. Highs around 62.

[Pop Light Brown]

Other than the dense fog that plagues us at night and early in the mornings, things have been great down this way. But changes are on the way.

2 pm CST conditions

New Orleans Int'l 74° Partly Cloudy

New Orleans Lakefront 73° Partly Cloudy

Belle Chasse 72° Partly Cloudy

Hammond 73° Partly Cloudy

Slidell 72° Sunny

Baton Rouge 72° Partly Cloudy

Houma 73° Mostly Sunny

Boothville 71° Cloudy

Galliano 73° Clear

McComb 71° Partly Cloudy

Bay St. Louis 72° Mostly Cloudy

Gulfport 68° Partly Cloudy

Biloxi 64° Partly Cloudy

Pascagoula 68° Cloudy


FRANKLINTON FORECAST

Tonight: A 20 percent chance of showers. Areas of dense fog after 10pm. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a low around 55. South wind around 5 mph becoming calm.

Sunday: A 30 percent chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 73. Calm wind becoming south between 5 and 10 mph.

Sunday Night: A 40 percent chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 56. Calm wind.

Monday: A 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Cloudy, with a high near 73. Calm wind becoming south between 5 and 10 mph.

Monday Night: Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm. Cloudy, with a low around 58. Chance of precipitation is 60%.

Tuesday: Showers and thunderstorms likely. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 72. Chance of precipitation is 60%.

Tuesday Night: A 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 44.

[Pop Light Brown]

Not much activity across the Greater New Orleans region. Most of the activity was across the Northshore parishes and now have quieted to areas the Lafourche and Terrebonne coast.

Look for a 20 to 30 percent of showers and storms across the area for the weekend. Highs in the upper 80s to lower 90s. Lows from the mid 70s to near 80.

[Pop Light Brown]

There's a solid shield of rain moving in at the moment. A Tornado Watch remains in effect for the Northshore parishes and some south Mississippi counties until 7 pm.

Current temps and radar: