KATC StormTeam 3 Weather BLOG

A benign weather pattern will stay with Acadiana for the rest of the week with milder (finally) more seasonable temperatures this weekend.  Chilly conditions will continue during the night time hours with frosty conditions quite possible for Thursday morning.  Highs Thursday will push the upper 50s to lower 60s under wall to wall sunshine.  Sunny conditions and slightly milder temperatures are in the offing Friday after another chilly start in the upper 30s.  This weekend should be fair to partly cloudy with some increased high level, cirrus cloudiness.  Temperatures Saturday should be well into the mid 60s and upper 60s to lower 70s possible for Sunday.  But with a relatively quite pattern and milder temperatures, some late night/early morning fog may be possible this weekend.  The next weather-maker will approach the area Monday.  Long range models are split on the outcome across Acadiana with one camp advertising storms and a dry frontal passage by Monday night with the other stalling the frontal boundary and maintaining some rain chances Tuesday and Wednesday.  For now I’m going with a good chance of storms by late Monday (with perhaps a severe weather element possible) followed by drier but still mild weather into mid-week.  Perhaps we have turned the corner on winter and putting the cold temperatures behind us…let’s hope winter stays in the rear-view mirror!