The National Weather Service in New Orleans has issued its latest weather forecast, anticipating a wet pattern for the area in the days to come. According to the NWS update, today's conditions involve showers and thunderstorms with a substantial 80% chance of precipitation, and new rainfall could reach between 1 and 2 inches.
As we look towards tonight, the risk of storms decreases but doesn't disappear completely; locals can expect a 40% chance of thunderstorms before midnight, thereafter just a slight possibility, this amidst a backdrop of mostly cloudy skies and a low settling around 78 degrees, the atmosphere, clinging to its southern wind, circulates at a gentle 5 to 10 mph.
Moving into the weekend, tomorrow endures a persistence of showers and potential thunderstorms both before and after the early afternoon, carrying a 90% chance of rainfall, with predicted amounts shifting between a quarter and half an inch. The night may bring some reprieve, as partly cloudy conditions prevail and winds ease.
Sunday's forecast, while starting mostly sunny, suggests a 40% chance of showers and thunderstorms later in the day; the high is projected near 91 degrees accompanied by a tame southeast breeze the temperatures continue to flirt with the high nineties on Monday, tempered only by a slender 20% chance of afternoon storms.
The sultry trend persists through Tuesday, with sunny and scorching highs approaching 95 degrees, and a continued chance of afternoon thunderstorms. The rest of the week follows a similar pattern, indicating a likelihood of showers and storms with overnight lows hovering in the comfortable upper seventies to low eighties, and daily highs that challenge the mid-nineties.
