KATC StormTeam 3 Weather BLOG

Scattered daytime showers and storms will likely stay with us through Sunday with lingering rain chances possible during the overnight hours as a series of frontal troughs slowly work through the region.  We have been quite busy in the Weather Lab this week as we have been training a “new” weekend meteorologist who will debut with us September 5th…well really not a debut, as he is a familiar face returning to Acadiana and KATC!  But that is the reason why I have been limited on my blog entries of late.  Back to our weather forecast…plan on a good chance of scattered storms both Saturday and Sunday with cooler, drier air moving in for early-mid next week.  Highs this weekend will be in the upper 80s to near 90 while overnight lows stay in the sticky low-mid 70s.  But Monday through at least next Wednesday will bring in sunny skies, lower humidity with highs in the upper 80s while overnight lows drop into the mid-60s…something to look forward to!  The longer range projections will usher in higher humidity and eventually what appears to be a wide-open tropical conduit of moisture beginning next weekend but not getting fully established until the following week.  It will certainly get more interesting with what appears to be another developing tropical system in the mid-tropical Atlantic as this next one may go on a more southerly route and be traveling with the lower level flow of winds and weather which could be toward the Gulf.  Hopefully the upper level wind shear associated with El Nino stays established across the Caribbean, but there is no guarantee on that.  During most El Nino tropical seasons there are a few weeks where the shear is lower or diminishes…hopefully not in the next 7-10 days however, but I wouldn’t count on that.  Have a good weekend!  Rob