Our week will be quite typical for late May/early June with hot and humid conditions persisting. A ridge of high pressure aloft has squelched most shower and thunderstorm activity over the last few days and will continue to 
dominate through Wednesday. By Thursday a frontal trough to the north will weaken as it drops southward but should put enough of a dent in the ridge to allow for a few scattered afternoon showers and storms later this week into the weekend. Rain chances shouldn’t go too high, but the best chance of some storms should come by Thursday. The ridge should re-strengthen over the weekend with even hotter conditions possible into next week. As I advertised in previous entries over the last few weeks, the tropics look to heat-up across the Northwestern Caribbean, Central America and possibly the southern Gulf in about a week’s time. The latest run of the GFS Long Range Model puts some sort of system threatening the Gulf of Mexico in a week to 10 days…we’ll see.
Meanwhile check out the NWS’s Lake Charles Tropical page, in particular the Storm Surge Inundation Maps for Acadiana…also stay tuned for new online tools from KATC for tracking storms and severe weather in the coming days.