After seven sub-freezing mornings a slow moderating temperature trend will continue this week not before a couple of more light-moderate freezes tonight and for Tuesday night. High pressure will continue to dominate through Wednesday allowing for mostly sunny and seasonably cool temperatures Tuesday and Wednesday. Another hefty storm will be developing in the western Gulf of Mexico Thursday into Friday resulting in a good soaking for Acadiana late Friday, Friday night into early Saturday. This storm will likely generate strong to severe storms in the Gulf along with the possibility of gale conditions. Although there may be some embedded storms with the rain for Acadiana at this point it appears that the severe weather threat will stay offshore. With that being said however, the upper low driving this system will be quite cold so there may be the threat of embedded hail with some convective rain cells Friday night into Saturday. Although it is early in the “pre-game” for the system later this week but 2-3″ of rain is the preliminary call for rain totals between Friday and Saturday. Good news is that milder conditions will likely follow this system into early next week, but the bad news is that a pattern with an active sub-tropical jet stream more typical of an “El Nino” will likely resume later this month…setting the stage for more wetness and shots at severe weather into February.
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