Weather Blog

Dave Nussbaum
dnussbaum@wbrz.com

Short Term:  It is another very warm and steamy morning across the Baton Rouge area with partly cloudy skies.  A few showers are also showing up on TrueView Doppler Radar.  Temperatures are in the upper 70s.  You better plan on having your umbrella with you today. . .

Scattered to numerous showers and thunderstorms will be developing through the afternoon hours.  These storms will be thriving on a very warm and humid airmass that is sitting over us.  When you add in daytime heating, and that weak trough of low pressure/upper-level low south of Louisiana, that will help to spark off these storms.  Due to there being so much moisture in the air, rain could be heavy at times.  Since there will be more rain and clouds today, the temperatures will be lower as they only climb to around 90. 

Some showers and storms will continue this evening before tapering off overnight.  Then partly cloudy skies will greet us.  It will remain warm and muggy with lows in the mid to upper 70s. 

Rest of the Week:  We will remain in the wet and humid weather pattern through the end of the week.  That weak upper-level low will dissipate by Friday, and that will lead to a gradual decrease in coverage of scattered showers and thunderstorms each day.  High temperatures will be in the lower 90s with lows in the mid 70s. 

Some drier air will return on Sunday and continue into next week as an area of high pressure builds in across the Southeast U.S.  This will lead to partly cloudy skies with only a stray thunderstorm each day.  The chance for rain will be 20% or less.  We will heat things back up with high temperatures climbing into the mid 90s. 

Tropical Update:  I am still watching a tropical wave located just off shore of the coast of Africa, or about 300 miles ESE of the Cape Verde Islands.  This system has become better organized this morning, and additional development is possible as it moves WNW. If it continues to develop today, it could become a tropical depression either today or tomorrow. 

Elsewhere. . .the tropics remain quiet, and tropical cyclone formation is not expected through Thursday.

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