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Tracking thunderstorms

Tracking thunderstorms
WELL, WE ARE STILL TRACKING SOME THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY ACROSS OUR AREA. SOME OF YOU A LOT OF YOU ACTUALLY DRY, BUT YOU DO SEE A GOOD BIT OF CLOUD COVER OUT THERE. AND WHEN YOU LOOK AT RADAR, WE STILL HAVE THUNDERSTORMS OUT THERE, MAINLY ON THE NORTH SHORE. THAT’S WHERE OUR BIGGEST THUNDERSTORM IS. THAT’S THE ONE WE’VE BEEN WATCHING. AND IT HAD SOME SIGNS OF HAIL WITH IT EARLIER. SO SOME SMALL HAIL POSSIBLE WITHIN THE STORM, SOME GUSTY WINDS, MAYBE UP TO AROUND 30 MILES AN HOUR AND SOME HEAVY RAIN WITH SOME FREQUENT LIGHTNING. NOTICE. THE RAIN STILL OVER THE FOLSOM AREA. THIS IS SLOWLY MOVING SOMEWHAT TO THE SOUTH AND TO THE WEST. SO IT CONTINUES TO CUT ACROSS. TANGIPAHOA PARISH GOES INTO INDEPENDENCE AND THE FORT AREA MORE STEADY RAIN UP TOWARDS FOLSOM, FRANKLINTON, AND THEN EVEN NEAR AND JUST SOUTH OF KENTWOOD, SEEING SOME OF THAT RAIN OVER TOWARDS BOGALUSA, WE STILL HAVE RAIN IN BOGALUSA, SOME HEAVIER RAIN STILL PUSHING OFF TO THE WEST THERE. AND THEN SCATTERED RAIN ACTIVITY OVER PEARL RIVER COUNTY, HANCOCK COUNTY AND MISSISSIPPI. SOME MORE RAIN ABOUT TO MOVE OVER INTO BAY SAINT LOUIS. THERE ON THE SOUTH SHORE, WE’VE BEEN WATCHING RAIN ALL DAY, REALLY ALONG COASTAL AREAS. STILL SOME RAIN HERE ALONG THE COAST. SOME SCATTERED SHOWERS NEAR HOMA AND THIBODAUX, A HEAVIER DOWNPOUR MOVING INTO CUT OFF. LOOKS LIKE WE GOT SOME LIGHTNING ASSOCIATED WITH THAT NOW, TOO. SO THIS ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO LA ROSE AND THE CUTOFF AREA, TOO. AND THEN WE’VE ALSO WATCHED SOME MORE RAIN OVER NEAR OUR RIVER PARISHES AND THIS IS HEADING TOWARDS CONTINUING TO MOVE TO THE WEST. AND SO IT’S MOVING AWAY FROM LAPLACE NOW, BUT STILL SOME LIGHTNING POPPING IN THAT AS WELL. THANK GOODNESS WE GOT THE GAME OVER IN BATON ROUGE BEFORE SOME OF THIS RAIN STARTS TO MOVE IN THEIR DIRECTION. TEMPERATURE IS SITTING IN THE 80S, 85 DEGREES AT THE LAKEFRONT AND IN SLIDELL. SAME FOR BELLE CHASE. WE DO HAVE 70S ON THE MAP THANKS TO THE RAIN. 75. BOGALUSA 73. HAMMOND 75. IN HOMA, IT FEELS WARMER THAN IT ACTUALLY IS FOR A LOT OF YOU WITH THE HUMIDITY. BUT NOTICE NOW THAT OUR FEELS-LIKE TEMPERATURES EVERYWHERE HAVE DROPPED OUT OF THE 90S. AT LEAST THERE’S THAT STILL FEELING LIKE 89 DEGREES IN GRAND ISLE AND IN BELLE CHASE IN HANCOCK COUNTY IN MISSISSIPPI. WE DO HAVE A COASTAL FLOOD ADVISORY AND THAT MEANS THAT WE COULD GET SOME MINOR COASTAL FLOODING DURING HIGH TIDES. THAT’S THE SOUTHERN HALF OF HANCOCK COUNTY. WHEN WE TAKE A LOOK AT OUR RAIN CHANCES FOR THE REST OF THE DAY, WE’LL STILL HAVE SOME THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH EARLY EVENING AND THEN A LOT OF THAT ACTIVITY WILL DROP BACK. SO HOUR BY HOUR TEMPERATURES FALL DOWN INTO THE 70 AND RAIN CHANCES START TO DIMINISH OVERNIGHT TONIGHT. I CAN’T RULE OUT AN ISOLATED STORM POSSIBLE THAT WOULD LIKELY FAVOR EARLIER INTO OUR OVERNIGHT HOURS. OTHER THAN THAT, IT WILL BE A MILD AND HUMID NIGHT LOWS MAINLY IN THE MIDDLE AND UPPER 60S ON THE NORTH SHORE. AND FOR MOST OF YOU ON THE SOUTH SHORE, LOW AND MIDDLE 70S WHEN IT COMES TO THE FOG POTENTIAL, I CAN’T COMPLETELY RULE IT OUT. THIS MODEL SHOWS SOME FOG POSSIBLE, SOME PATCHY AREAS OF FOG POSSIBLE ON THE NORTH SHORE. TOMORROW WILL BE A PARTLY CLOUDY AND VERY WARM DAY. HIGHS 86 TO 90 DEGREES. WE DO HAVE A 50% CHANCE OF STORMS. RAIN CHANCES WILL SLOWLY DROP BACK THROUGH THE REST OF THE WORKWEEK. BUT EACH DAY STILL HAS A CHANCE OF SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY. BUT AS RAIN CHANCES FALL BACK, TEMPERATURES START TO CLIMB. I THINK EVERYONE WILL BE ON EITHER SIDE OF 90 DEGREES BY THURSDAY. LOOKS LIKE MOST OF US MOVE INTO THE 90S ON FRIDAY. QUICK CHECK ON THE TROPICS. NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT. YES, THERE’S ONE AREA OF POSSIBLE DEVELOPMENT. IT’S A 10% CHANCE OF DEVELOPMENT AND IT’S IN THE AZORES. SO IT IS NO THREAT TO THE GULF. WE HAVE NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT WHEN IT COMES TO THE TROPICS RIGHT NOW. MEANWHILE, TOMORROW HAS A 50% CHANCE OF SCATTERED SHOWERS AND STORMS AND THEN RAIN CHANCES SLOWLY FAL
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Tracking thunderstorms
Thunderstorms are popping on the radar today. Some of them are slow-moving and could cause localized street flooding. A few could also produce small hail.I can’t rule out an isolated storm lingering into tonight. Lows will be in the middle and upper 60s on the Northshore and mainly the low and middle 70s on the South Shore.Tuesday will have a 50% chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs will range from 86 to 90 degrees.High temperatures will be a degree or two warmer each day as rain chances slowly fall through the workweek.Tropical Update: There is only a 10% chance of tropical development in the Azores. There is no threat to the Gulf.

Thunderstorms are popping on the radar today. Some of them are slow-moving and could cause localized street flooding. A few could also produce small hail.

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I can’t rule out an isolated storm lingering into tonight. Lows will be in the middle and upper 60s on the Northshore and mainly the low and middle 70s on the South Shore.

Tuesday will have a 50% chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs will range from 86 to 90 degrees.

High temperatures will be a degree or two warmer each day as rain chances slowly fall through the workweek.

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Tropical Update: There is only a 10% chance of tropical development in the Azores. There is no threat to the Gulf.