Sunshine has returned this afternoon and that has helped to warm us up after a frigid start this morning with many locations falling back into the lower 30′s this morning. With the help of the sunshine highs today managed to climb back into the lower to middle 50′s and this is just the start of a warming trend that will occur throughout the upcoming week. High pressure will keep us dry, but we will also be watching several fronts in the forecast over the next 7 days or so.
Our cold front has worked its way into the region this morning and our temperatures are on the way down as winds have returned to the northerly direction bringing colder and drier air in. Through the evening we’ll continue to see our temperatures drop and it will be cold as you wake up on Sunday morning, but the good news is that sunshine makes a return. We look to stay on the dry side to start much of next week and the cold weather we have now, will once again change and we return to above average temperatures.
Wildlife rehabilitators are decontaminating dozens of alligators, brushing their teeth and scrubbing their hides in the weeks after a pipeline rupture dumped 300,000 gallons of diesel fuel into a New Orleans area wetland.
The left lane is now open on the I-210 bridge; however, the right lane remains blocked, according to the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development.
Two former LSU Tigers and two New Orleans Saints players have landed on AP NFL All-Pro teams released on Friday, Jan. 14. All-Pro teams are voted on by a national panel of 50 media members.
Temperatures are rather chilly once again with many areas sitting in the lower to middle 40′s as mostly clear skies continue to allow us to fall through the morning. We are also watching for some lower visibility throughout a few locations as patchy fog will develop and this could be ground fog, which will quickly burn off as we move through the morning. Heading into the weekend we are still watching our next cold front arriving bringing the chance for showers and even a few storms before turning much cooler for Sunday.
The 2022 Martin Luther King Jr. Festival is scheduled for Saturday, Jan. 15 through Monday, Jan. 17, with the parade rolling through downtown Lake Charles Monday.
Mrs. Viator’s fourth-grade classroom at Our Lady’s Catholic School has all hands-on deck with this science unit as students are spending the week learning about the medical world and the human body.
Officers with the Baton Rouge Police Department marched a woman, who is accused of robbing a beauty supply store at gunpoint, to a jail cell on Thursday, Jan. 13.
A recent study found 2020-2021 hurricanes resulted in an estimated $579 million in losses to Louisiana’s fishing industry, according to the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.
The Allen Parish School Board announced that five schools will hold virtual classes Friday, Jan. 14 due to increased COVID cases and staffing shortages.
Skies have continued to clear overnight and that has allowed temperatures to quickly fall this morning with many locations back into the lower 40′s and a few locations in the upper 30′s for rural locations north of I-10. Sunshine will continue to return for the next few afternoons allowing us to warm nicely and sit just above normal before a cold front arrives for the weekend and changes the pattern once again.
In a press release Thursday, the Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office announced it has purchased the American Press building to use as a new CPSO Annex building.
A group of Mennonites and Amish, along with the Louisiana Methodist Conference and the Fuller Disaster Rebuilders have come together to rebuild houses and fix roofs as their resources allow.
A few showers have made their way through Southwest Louisiana through the overnight hours as an upper level disturbance tracks across the region. We’ll begin to dry out as we move through the rest of the morning and into the afternoon, but clouds will stick around for the first half before sunshine will return for the afternoon. One positive thing to take away is the fact we are going to slowly warm as we round out the week as sunshine sticks around with high pressure in charge through Friday before bigger changes arrive.
