KATC StormTeam 3 Weather BLOG

Another vigorous storm system will advance toward Acadiana Friday bring clouds and rain.  Look for clouds to increase through the morning hours with rain developing from noon onward.  This system has a very cold upper level core making conditions aloft quite unstable.  Therefore embedded thunder may be possible tomorrow afternoon with even the possibility of some small hail or soft hail (also known as graupel…see the link for a definition) through tomorrow evening.  Our in-house models are showing anywhere from 1/2 to one inch of rain will be likely area-wide with isolated amoounts up to 1.5-2 inches possible if convection (thunder) gets going.  For a meteorologist this is and interesting system…for most of us it’s just plain wet and sloppy.  While this will be just a wet weather system for Acadiana, I wouldn’t be surprised if some snow flurries follow this system as near as southwestern Mississippi into interior portions of Alabama.  Lingering rain showers and drizzle will be likely through much of Friday night but conditions will likely begin to dry toward daybreak Saturday.  Any lingering cloud cover early Saturday will likely burn off by the afternoon or sooner so at least expect a mostly sunny and cool weekend.  Highs will top out Saturday in the low-mid 50s, drop into the mid-30s for Sunday morning, and rise into the upper 50s to near 60 for Sunday afternoon.  Another quick-moving weather system will arrive Monday bringing another shot of chilly rain, and perhaps soaking rains, to Acadiana.  The Monday system will likely turn into another Southeast and Mid-Atlantic snowstorm…no rest of the winter-weary!  At least for Acadiana, milder tempartures will return for later next week.