Monitoring what would be the final chilly entrance of the season
Up to date: 6:44 AM CDT Might 17, 2025
LET’S GET A CHECK OF YOUR FIRST WARNING WEATHER. IT IS THE WEEKEND AFTER ALL. JIMBO. WHAT DO YOU SAY? WELL, IT’S GOING TO BE A WARM WEEKEND. IT’S GOING TO BE A DRY WEEKEND, AND WE ARE GOING TO SEE A LOT OF SUNSHINE LIKE YOU’RE LOOKING AT RIGHT NOW ON OUR LIVE CAMERA. BUT THE THING THAT WE’RE MOST EXCITED ABOUT IS A COLD FRONT. I KNOW IT’S THE MIDDLE OF MAY. WE NORMALLY DON’T GET COLD FRONTS MIDDLE OF MAY OR GENERALLY DON’T, BUT WE HAVE ONE THAT WE THINK IS GOING TO BE CHANGING OUR WEATHER NEXT WEEK. WE’RE AT 78 RIGHT NOW IN BATON ROUGE. WARM START THERE. 77 IN HAMMOND, 76. THE CURRENT TEMPERATURE. BELLE CHASSE RIGHT NOW. BEAUTIFUL SUNRISE FROM OUR PONTCHARTRAIN CONSERVANCY CAMERA. AND WE HAVE 77 DEGREES OFFICIALLY AT LOUIS ARMSTRONG INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. PARDON ME IF I SHAKE MY HEAD A LITTLE BIT. DEW POINT OF 75. THAT’S A LITTLE HIGHER THAN AVERAGE FOR THE MIDDLE OF MAY. THAT’S MORE OF A MIDDLE OF JULY DEW POINT WINDS RIGHT NOW FROM THE SOUTH SOUTHWEST AT ABOUT SIX MILES PER HOUR. WE HAVE SOME RAIN CLOSE TO US. RAIN THAT COULD POSSIBLY MAYBE GET CLOSE TO US LATER TODAY. PROBABLY NOT. IT’S A FRONT THAT’S GOING TO STAY TO THE NORTH OF US. THIS ISN’T THE COLD FRONT THAT WE’RE TRACKING. THE MAIN THING THAT’S KIND OF INFLUENCING OUR WEATHER RIGHT NOW IS THIS HIGH PRESSURE SYSTEM AT THE SURFACE, BRINGING US THAT SOUTHERLY WIND. IT WON’T MOVE MUCH OVER THE NEXT 36 HOURS. SO HIGH TEMPERATURES CLOSE TO 90. GET USED TO IT. THAT’S WHAT WE’RE GOING TO HAVE THROUGH THE BEGINNING OF NEXT WEEK. WE START WITH A LITTLE BIT OF LOW LEVEL CLOUDINESS, BUT BY ABOUT MID-MORNING WE’LL BE MOSTLY SUNNY. THAT’S THE WAY WE’RE GOING TO STAY TODAY. HIGH TEMPERATURE JUST ABOUT NEAR 90 DEGREES, ALTHOUGH IT COULD BE A LITTLE BIT COOLER AT THE LAKE. COULD HAVE A LAKE BREEZE KICKING IN ONCE WE GET TO ABOUT 1:00 THIS AFTERNOON. BUT STILL, UNLESS YOU’RE REALLY CLOSE TO THE WATER, YOU’RE GOING TO BE IN THE UPPER 80S, CLOSE TO 90 TODAY. TOMORROW MORNING, FIRST THING, PICKING UP ON 1 OR 2 LITTLE SPRINKLES, MAYBE BOGALUSA. BUT THE CHANCE FOR RAIN. OFFICIALLY LESS THAN 10%. AND TOMORROW AFTERNOON WE’LL DO IT AGAIN. SKIES BECOME MOSTLY SUNNY BY ABOUT 9:00. HIGH TEMPERATURE ONE MORE TIME, CLOSE TO 90 DEGREES. BUT IT MIGHT BE. IT COULD BE. IT IS. IT’S A COLD FRONT. AND ON WEDNESDAY, METEOROLOGIST DEVON LUCIE AND I WERE LOOKING AT THE MODELS. WE WERE SAYING, OH, YEAH, THEY HAVE A COLD FRONT MOVING THROUGH. BUT WE WERE VERY SKEPTICAL. BUT AS WE LOOKED CLOSER AND CLOSER AND NOW THAT WE’RE GETTING CLOSER TO WEDNESDAY, LOOKS LIKE WEDNESDAY MORNING, HERE’S THE FRONT BRINGING US A CHANCE FOR SOME SCATTERED SHOWERS OR AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM BEHIND THE FRONT WILL GRADUALLY CLEAR OFF, BUT THEN WE START TO SEE A NORTHERLY WIND. SO HUMIDITY FOR AT LEAST TWO DAYS. IT’S GOING TO BE A LITTLE BIT LOWER FORECAST FOR THE PREAKNESS STAKES, WHICH YOU CAN WATCH RIGHT HERE ON WDSU. THEY’RE SEEING A COUPLE OF SHOWERS THIS MORNING, BUT THAT SHOULD BE IT FOR THE RAIN. SO I’M PREDICTING THE TRACK WILL BE FAST, THE TURF WILL BE GOOD, AND IT SHOULD BECOME SUNNY. IT’S GOING TO BE WARM AT THE PREAKNESS. HIGH TEMPERATURE TODAY. GOING TO BE IN THE UPPER 80S. MOSTLY SUNNY AND WARM FOR US. WE GET UP CLOSE TO 90 DEGREES WITH SOUTHERLY WINDS AT ABOUT 6 TO 12. INCREASING CLOUDS IN THE FORECAST TONIGHT. YES, IT IS GOING TO BE KIND OF MUGGY TOWARD MORNING AND THEN MOSTLY SUNNY TOMORROW AFTERNOON. WE’LL DO IT ONE MORE TIME. HIGH TEMPERATURE CLOSE TO 90 DEGREES. THINGS CHANGE VERY LITTLE EXCEPT THE BREEZE PICKS UP A LITTLE BIT MONDAY AND TUESDAY. WEDNESDAY MORNING. HERE COMES THE COLD FRONT WEATHER IMPACT FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF SOME POCKETS OF SOME HEAVIER RAIN MORNINGS BACK INTO THE 50S ON THE NORTH SHORE. THURSDAY FRIDA
Monitoring what would be the final chilly entrance of the season
Up to date: 6:44 AM CDT Might 17, 2025
Our climate will change little or no by the weekend, as high-pressure within the Gulf of Mexico will proceed to manage our climate, deliver us a southerly wind, and preserve our excessive temperatures proper round 90° every day. We’ll begin with a bit little bit of cloud cowl within the morning, however skies will turn into principally sunny by the mid to late morning, and the possibility for rain stays lower than 10% by the start of subsequent week. The subsequent factor that can change our climate might be a chilly entrance that might be right here Wednesday morning. Forward of that entrance, we might have an remoted bathe late Tuesday, however one of the best probability for rain will come Monday morning, and there might be some pockets of some heavier, rain, so we’re classifying it as a WDSU Climate influence day. Behind this, which would be the final one of many season, the humidity will drop and the temperatures will get cooler for about 48 hours. Morning temperatures might be within the 50s on the North Shore Thursday and Friday, however the humidity returns as we get into the weekend, though it’s nonetheless ought to be comfy all through the day on Saturday.
Our climate will change little or no by the weekend, as high-pressure within the Gulf of Mexico will proceed to manage our climate, deliver us a southerly wind, and preserve our excessive temperatures proper round 90° every day. We’ll begin with a bit little bit of cloud cowl within the morning, however skies will turn into principally sunny by the mid to late morning, and the possibility for rain stays lower than 10% by the start of subsequent week.
The subsequent factor that can change our climate might be a chilly entrance that might be right here Wednesday morning. Forward of that entrance, we might have an remoted bathe late Tuesday, however one of the best probability for rain will come Monday morning, and there might be some pockets of some heavier, rain, so we’re classifying it as a WDSU Climate influence day. Behind this, which would be the final one of many season, the humidity will drop and the temperatures will get cooler for about 48 hours.
Morning temperatures might be within the 50s on the North Shore Thursday and Friday, however the humidity returns as we get into the weekend, though it’s nonetheless ought to be comfy all through the day on Saturday.
