Cooler climate coming, monitoring the following doable storm
Up to date: 12:39 PM CDT Sep 23, 2024
THERE YOU CAN ALSO TRACK THE TROPICS LIKE WHAT WE’VE BEEN DOING THE PAST FEW DAYS. FIRST, WARNING WEATHER METEOROLOGIST JIM CION JOINING US WITH MORE ON THAT, PLUS THE CONDITIONS AS YOU HEAD OUT THE DOOR, MAYBE FOR LUNCH THIS AFTERNOON. IT’S GOING TO BE HOT. IT WAS HOT YESTERDAY. IT’S GOING TO BE HOT AGAIN TODAY. IT IS HOT. I MEAN, AND THEN YOU GET INTO THE CAR ONCE AGAIN, YOU START MELTING, RIGHT? SO YOU’VE GOT TO GET THOSE AC CRANKED UP. YOU NEED. YEAH. YOU NEED THAT THING. WHAT’S THE SCREEN IN THE WINDSHIELD RIGHT. THAT TAKES EFFORT. BUT YOU’RE SO HAPPY YOU DID IT. WE ARE. AND KUDOS TO THOSE OF YOU WHO ACTUALLY TAKE THE TIME TO DO IT. IT’S HOT TODAY, HOT TOMORROW. BUT WE’RE GOING TO START TO SEE SOME COOLER AIR. WE THINK BY THE END OF THE WEEK AND IT MIGHT BE BECAUSE OF THE TROPICAL SYSTEM, THE POSSIBLE HURRICANE MOVING TOWARD FLORIDA. RIGHT NOW, THE SUPERDOME SKIES PARTLY CLOUDY. WE DO HAVE A COUPLE OF ISOLATED SHOWERS THAT WE’RE TRACKING ON WDSU. FIRST WARNING RADAR HOUMA. LOOKS LIKE YOU’LL GET A COUPLE OF SHOWERS. NOTHING MAJOR THOUGH. THE SHOWERS MOVING VERY, VERY SLOWLY, BUT HERE ARE THOSE TEMPERATURES. WE’RE OVER 90 IN SOME SPOTS. DOUBLE COCO. THAT APPEARS TO BE THE POPULAR TEMPERATURE. 88 IN HOUMA, 88 IN BOGALUSA. 88. THE CURRENT TEMPERATURE IN HAMMOND. HOWEVER, 90 IN SLIDELL AND 90 IN GULFPORT. HERE ARE YOUR CURRENT CONDITIONS AT LOUIS ARMSTRONG INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. THE DEW POINT IS DOWN JUST A LITTLE BIT. SO NOT OPPRESSIVELY HUMID. WINDS RIGHT NOW VARIABLE AT ABOUT FOUR MILES PER HOUR. 89 DEGREES IS THE TEMPERATURE AT THE AIRPORT. THERE IT IS. OUR NEXT TROPICAL STORM. MOST LIKELY THAT’S WHAT’S GOING TO HAPPEN IN THE NEXT 24 HOURS. RIGHT NOW, JUST A POTENTIAL TROPICAL CYCLONE, 993 MILES AWAY FROM OUR STUDIOS RIGHT HERE AT WDSU. AND WHEN YOU FIRST GLANCE AT IT, YOU WOULD SAY, OKAY, WELL, THERE YOU GO. BIG AREA. THAT’S GOT TO BE THE CENTER OF IT RIGHT THERE. NO, THAT’S NOT THE CASE. MOST OF THE CONVECTION, MOST OF THE THUNDERSTORMS ON THE EAST SIDE OF THIS SYSTEM, IT IS GETTING A LITTLE BETTER ORGANIZED. ACCORDING TO THE NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER. AND HERE’S THE FORECAST TRACK ON WHAT WILL LIKELY BECOME TROPICAL STORM HELENE. AND THEN PROBABLY HURRICANE HELENE. CATEGORY TWO STORM, QUITE POSSIBLY, AS IT MAKES ITS WAY TOWARD FLORIDA. THERE’S GOING TO BE A COLD FRONT MOVING DOWN, ACTUALLY THROUGH NEW ORLEANS AND INTO THE GULF OF MEXICO. AND I THINK THAT’S GOING TO HELP TO STEER THIS SYSTEM JUST A LITTLE BIT. HERE WE ARE, 8 A.M. WINDS AT 110MPH. THE SPAGHETTI PLOTS, ALL OF THE COMPUTER MODELS. AND AGAIN, WE’RE VERY ENCOURAGED BY THIS. ALL KEEPING IT AWAY FROM NEW ORLEANS. I HAVE A LOT OF FRIENDS IN FLORIDA. I’M NOT HAPPY THEY’RE GETTING THE STORM, BUT NEW ORLEANS, IT DOESN’T LOOK LIKE WE’RE GOING TO BE UNDER THE GUN WITH THIS STORM. AND I SAY THAT WITH JUST A LITTLE TREPIDATION IN MY VOICE BECAUSE ANY TIME YOU GET A SYSTEM IN THE GULF OF MEXICO, THIS TIME OF YEAR WITH ALL THAT WARM WATER, YOU WATCH IT VERY CLOSELY. NOW, THIS IS ONE OF THE SCENARIOS, AND I THINK THIS COLD FRONT IS ACTUALLY GOING TO HELP TO STEER THE STORM JUST A LITTLE BIT. PAUSING THINGS HERE FIRST THING IN THE MORNING ON THURSDAY WHEN IT COULD POSSIBLY BE A HURRICANE. THIS COLD FRONT NOT GOING TO BE THE STRONGEST FRONT IN THE WORLD. BUT WHEN I LIVED IN FLORIDA FOR MANY YEARS, I WAS ALWAYS WORRIED. AS WE GOT TO THE END OF SEPTEMBER, BEGINNING OF OCTOBER, BECAUSE THESE COLD FRONTS WOULD MOVE THROUGH LOUISIANA, GET INTO THE GULF, AND POSSIBLY STEER THE STORMS A LITTLE CLOSER TO FLORIDA SO THAT FORECAST TRACK HAS IT MAKING LANDFALL SOMEWHERE, PROBABLY IN THE PANHANDLE. BUT AGAIN, THERE’S A POSSIBILITY IT COULD SHIFT EVEN A LITTLE BIT FARTHER TO THE EAST. OBVIOUSLY, THAT WOULD BE AWAY FROM US. WE’RE WATCHING IT. WE’RE NOT OVERLY CONCERNED ABOUT IT AT THIS POINT. SO LET’S JUST CALL IT MOSTLY SUNNY, HOT, MAINLY DRY. THAT’S YOUR FORECAST FOR TODAY. CHANCE FOR RAIN OFFICIALLY AT 10%. CLEAR SKIES TONIGHT. WINDS ARE GOING TO BE LIGHT A LITTLE BIT ON THE MUGGY SIDE, ESPECIALLY FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. AND THEN MOSTLY SUNNY WITH AN ISOLATED SHOWER IN THE FORECAST AGAIN TOMORROW. PROBABLY CLOSE TO 90, 91, 92. IN MOST COMMUNITIES NOW WITH THAT COLD FRONT MOVING THROUGH. AND AGAIN, IT IS NOT GOING TO BE THE STRONGEST FRONT IN THE WORLD. BUT I THINK IT’S GOING TO BRING US A CHANCE FOR SOME RAIN AND WE’RE GOING TO HAVE BREEZY CONDITIONS AND SOME LOWER HUMIDITY. THURSDAY AFTERNOON INTO FRIDAY AND POSSIBLY EVEN INTO SATURDAY WITH THE MORNINGS GETTING INTO THE 60S ON THE NORTH SHORE.
Cooler climate coming, monitoring the following doable storm
Up to date: 12:39 PM CDT Sep 23, 2024
Principally dry, very heat, and considerably uneventful climate would be the story for us by means of Tuesday in Southeast Louisiana. All eyes are clearly on the doable tropical storm Helene, which is shifting slowly to the north and towards the Gulf of Mexico. The system is at present about 990 miles away from New Orleans, and it’s shifting slowly to the north. It’s anticipated to get stronger, and presumably attain class two power earlier than making landfall someplace in Florida on Thursday. A chilly entrance shall be shifting by means of Louisiana late Wednesday and Thursday, and this can seemingly assist to steer the storm a bit farther away from us. By Thursday and Friday, we’ll seemingly see some dry air shifting in on the bottom of this method, and it’ll really feel a bit extra snug and breezy as effectively. The humidity will creep a bit up a bit as we undergo the weekend, however our climate needs to be largely dry and a bit extra snug.
Principally dry, very heat, and considerably uneventful climate would be the story for us by means of Tuesday in Southeast Louisiana. All eyes are clearly on the doable tropical storm Helene, which is shifting slowly to the north and towards the Gulf of Mexico. The system is at present about 990 miles away from New Orleans, and it’s shifting slowly to the north. It’s anticipated to get stronger, and presumably attain class two power earlier than making landfall someplace in Florida on Thursday.
A chilly entrance shall be shifting by means of Louisiana late Wednesday and Thursday, and this can seemingly assist to steer the storm a bit farther away from us. By Thursday and Friday, we’ll seemingly see some dry air shifting in on the bottom of this method, and it’ll really feel a bit extra snug and breezy as effectively. The humidity will creep a bit up a bit as we undergo the weekend, however our climate needs to be largely dry and a bit extra snug.
