High pressure will stay large and in charge across the region over the next several days keeping our temperatures above normal while suppressing our rain chances. Dean now back out of the open water of the Bay of Campeche may strengthen back to Category II status prior to its second landfall in Mexico tomorrow. Some long period swells are propagating northward from the southern Gulf with tides running about 1ft above normal this afternoon. Tomorrow 4-8ft waves will lap up along the coast producing tides close to 2ft above normal, especially across coastal Cameron Parish. So there could be a little minor coastal flooding tomorrow but the waves and the tides should diminish on Thursday. The weather pattern will change little through the end of the week while the ridge should weaken a little this weekend engendering a slightly better chance of afternoon storms. Better rain chances may be possible early next week as a tropical wave combined with an upper low should traverse the Gulf. The upper low is currently positioned over the Central Caribbean northward into the sub-tropical Atlantic. While there is very little organization with this feature at this time we will monitor it just in case. Side note for this evening: the International Space Station should be visible in the northern sky moving from west at east at 8:51pm…it should be a nice evening for viewing.
Late Afternoon Update
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