After a nice break this weekend with temperatures around 70 degrees, it looks like we’ll be back to below normal temperatures for the remainder of this week. Our cold front last night brought a round of showers and thunderstorms, with some heavy rainfall totals over northern St. Landry and Evangeline parishes, and severe weather was reported in St. Mary Parish with large, damaging hail seen in Franklin! Another winter storm will be moving across the south bringing a round of cold rain Tuesday night, with a few flurries mixed in toward the end of the event.
Today we should remain cloudy for the most part, although a few welcome peaks of sunshine might get through. Temperatures will hold in the upper 50s most of the day with the 63 degree high temperature already hit earlier this morning. Clouds should remain in place overnight as lows will drop back into the lower 40s. Tuesday will remain cloudy with a slight chance for rain developing late in the afternoon. Cold rains becoming likely Tuesday night as the winter storm approaches.
This next winter storm will dump heavy, wet snow across northern and central Texas. Probably not as much snow as the previous system dumped last week, but snows will be falling in roughly the same areas. Expect mostly a cold rain here in Acadiana. As the system moves eastward, most of the snow area will erode as it moves toward Louisiana, but some models are pointing at a rain/snow mix around midnight Tuesday/Wednesday across the northern suburbs of Houston, eventually changing to all snow for about an hour or two. Some of that may move across central Louisiana, and northern parts of Acadiana, but the duration of the snowfall will be much shorter..say, less than an hour. So I’ve mentioned a brief rain/snow mix right at the tail end of this storm, then all precip will end early Wednesday morning. No accumulations are expected this time. Temperatures will remain below normal for the rest of the week and the weekend. Highs will only reach the mid 50s with lows in the 30s. Right now it looks like we’ll stay above freezing for the next 7 days. Hard to believe that it will be March in only a week, and we’re still experiencing temperatures colder than January standards. Normal highs and lows this week are about 68 and 48, but we’ll be lucky to hit 60 by the weekend!
StormTeam3 Meteorologist Dave Baker
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