A week ago in this blog I mentioned that the models were beginning to lock onto a significant chance of storms Easter Sunday…and that hasn’t changed much in the last week. It appears the storm system this Sunday will be a big severe weather-maker across much of Eastern Texas through the Arklatex and more than likely a good portion of Louisiana. This will likely be an “all mode” severe weather event with damaging winds, hail, isolated tornadoes and several inches of rain likely where the storms concentrate. I wouldn’t be surprised if there will be a significant damaging tornado outbreak with this one, especially for our neighbors to the north of us. The greatest risk of nasty storms in Acadiana will be during the latter part of the afternoon into the evening hours…but this far out give or take 6 hours would still be appropriate so storms could come later into the Sunday evening hours…stay tuned on this one as it could be one of the higher, if not highest, spring severe weather threat event. In the near term, “unsettled” is a good descriptor for the next couple of days, but it shouldn’t be too bad. A weakening front will arrive here tomorrow night with just a few light showers between now and Saturday expected. Friday will likely bring mostly cloudy skies with a few intervals of sun allowing temperatures to reach into the lower 80s. Slightly cooler conditions are possible by Saturday morning with highs closer to mid-upper 70s Saturday afternoon. In fact our higher resolution in-house Futurecast model is indicating a fair bit of sunshine Saturday…but clouds will be rushing back in Saturday night into Sunday. Rain chances tonight through Saturday evening will be in the 20% range or less but will increase to 30-40% Sunday morning and rocket to near 100% by either late Sunday afternoon or Sunday night.
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