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Dawn Brown: January 2007 Archives***FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT FOR THE NORTHSHORE AND PARTS OF THE SOUTHSHORE INCLUDING UPPER JEFFERSON, UPPER TERREBONE,UPPER LAFOURCHE AND UPPER PLAQUEMINES UNTIL 8AM MONDAY MORNING. TEMPERATURES WILL BE IN THE MID 20S FOR SEVERAL HOURS TONIGHT. A HARD FREEZE IS EXPECTED. PROTECT OPEN AIR PIPES, PLANTS, PETS AND PEOPLE.*** A sunny but cold Sunday leading to freezing temperatures overnight. Arctic air is taking hold of much of the count... Light, moderate and heavy rainfall fell across the area today. The band of rain showers associated with a Gulf low is now moving off to the East. Behind that low, a cold front will sweep through the area overnight... leading to a cold and windy start on Sunday. Some rainfall totals today: Light to moderate rainfall continues across the area Sunday night into Monday afternoon. A brief break is possible Monday into Tuesday. After a warm and muggy Sunday, temperatures will once again be on the cool side for most of the week.
The warm front has passed, now a cold front is bearing down on SE Louisiana, bringing rain showers and cooler temperatures tonight into tomorrow once again. Light rain will continue to fall throughout the day. Expect another disturbance to provide a chance of showers on Monday, then a brief break Tuesday, before another round on Wednesday. SAINTS VERSUS BEARS: NFC CHAMPIONSHIP GAME: SOLDIER FIELD It looks like temperatures will warm Saturday night into Sunday in association with a warm front and low pressure system that will be bearing down on SE Louisiana Saturday night into Sunday. It looks like scattered showers will start moving in Saturday night. The rain chances increase Sunday afternoon. We have a 30% chance for thunderstorms Sunday afternoon as well. Afternoon highs on Sunday are expected to be around 70. The chance of rain ext... Cloudy skies will remain for today and rain chances increase on Sunday. 20-30% for light rain all of today, then the chance for more rain goes to 70% on Sunday. Highs will be in the 50's today and 60's tomorrow. SAINTS VERSUS BEARS: NFC CHAMPIONSHIP GAME: SOLDIER FIELD Upper level winds and moisture continue to feed into the SE associated with the Southern Jetstream, as part of the El Nino pattern. Expect mostly cloudy skies today and into Friday with a chance for spotty showers. A change in the pattern Saturday as a low forms over Mexico and then moves closer to SE Lousiana. A warm front ahead of the low may trigger some thunderstorms Saturday night. Sunday, the chance of showers is currently 80% fo... With strong winds out of the north, the "feels like" temperature has been in the 20s and now 30s for most of the day. Expect winds to die down tonight. Temperatures this afternoon are in the 40s, but again, with strong winds, it doesn't feel that warm. I'm starting to see some light sprinkles show up on our Live Pinpoint Doppler. We will see a stray shower or two this afternoon, with light sleet or rain in far northern and western pari... Temperatures this morning are having trouble staying the 40s... as a cold, artic air mass continues to drop into our forecast region. A winter weather advisory is in effect for western Lousiana... and we may see a wintry mix... of rain/sleet on the northshore and some western parishes this afternoon and overnight. Expect temperatures in the upper 30s, especially on the northshore for later this afternoon and then dropping overnight. If you are... The northshore is starting to see some light to moderate precipitation in advance of a cold front that is starting to edge into our forecast area. Temperatures this afternoon are in the 70s in advance of the front. Expect cold, windy and rainy conditions tonight as the front moves across SE Lousiana. Wind chills in the 30s tonight and tomorrow. For those of you traveling to Chicago for the Saints game, it will be rough driving ... Of course... you can read all about the Saints game in our Sports Blog... but the expression, "Saints fans are on cloud 9", led me to look up the expression. The popularity of the phrase is attributed to a radio show in the 1950s, a song by George Harrison, as well as a song by the Temptations among other things. However, phrase sources attribute the source of "cloud 9" to the 1896 publishing of the International Cloud Atlas, which ga... No records... but a very warm Saturday across the region. We will see mostly cloudy skies tonight, a mild and muggy evening. Tomorrow, expect another warm day with highs in the upper 70s and humid conditions. Skies will be mostly cloudy again. Temperatures will begin falling Monday afternoon. Some high temperatures across the area today. New Orleans International Airport: 77... record 82 A line of showers and brief thunderstorms is now moving into the coastal parishes and Mississippi. The line developed in front of a cold front that will be moving through SE Louisiana tonight. Showers are diminishing this afternoon. Coastal showers will remain through the evening. Expect clearing overnight... and cool and windy conditions Monday. It will be a big change from Sunday where afternoon highs are in the mid 70s. Tem... Patchy dense fog is developing, expect visibilities to be reduced overnight and into tomorrow morning. A southerly flow has developed... warm, moist air is filtering into the region. Temperatures will remain in the 60s overnight. Along with fog, isolated thunderstorms are possible overnight. A cold front is expected to move through the area tomorrow... that mixed with an upper level trough will create a 60% chance of showers overnigh... A few isolated showers will move across the area today... so parade goers should keep the umbrella handy. For the most part, we're looking at mostly cloudy skies, mild and muggy for your Saturday forecast, but we do have a 20-30% chance for isolated showers. A cold front is expected to move through the area overnight... that mixed with an upper level trough will create a 60% chance of showers overnight Saturday night into Sunday aftern... Showers and thunderstorms continue to move across coastal Lousiana and Mississippi this morning. Some lingering showers could provide wet roads for the morning commute... but it looks like we'll see clearing skies for your Friday forecast. Rain totals anywhere from 1" to 3" in isolated areas across SE Lousiana... we'll have more on rain totals later this morning. Storm Reports this morning: Good Morning... I'm Dawn Brown in the Channel 4 Weather Department. It is 3am, and I've been watching a line of thunderstorms continue to fire up from Lake Pontchartrain to Lower Lafourche Parish. The possiblity of lightning and heavy downpours continues with this line that has stalled over the coastal parishes. A special marine warning continues for areas of coastal Mississippi. Behind this line of storms, a cold front is mak... |
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