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Saturday: Partly sunny, with a high near 75.
Saturday Night: A 20 percent chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 55.
CajunMama wrote:Saturday: Partly sunny, with a high near 75.
Saturday Night: A 20 percent chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 55.
Beautiful weather for the krewe of rio parade this coming saturday night. Any locals....i'm on the royalty float, the beautiful vegas bride!
) We had a high of 75f today under mostly sunny skies. Got my fence rehab finished, but I'm too tired(aka as lazy and fat)to bundle up the limbs and bushes I have cut back to put out for trash. That will have to wait for next weeks trash. May cut back on the outside activities a little this weekend if the temps remain as coolish as they now say.Sea fog has made its return to the area this morning with very dense fog along the coast especially around Matagorda Bay. Visibilities have been averaging 1/4th of a mile or less from Port Lavaca to Palacios to Galveston to High Island this morning. Expect the sea fog to linger much of the morning and possibly much of the day along the coast as dewpoints have risen over near shore water temperatures. Sea fog will advance inland again after sunset this evening with visibilities tanking. Light winds tonight ahead of the cold front Saturday will likely promote some thick sea fog possibly as far inland as I-10.
Upper level storm system over the Rockies will eject into the central plains today and Saturday which will drag a cold front across the region early Saturday. Moisture levels will continue to increase today and tonight ahead of this front and then stronger dynamics come to bear across the region between about 600am Saturday and noon. Capping inversion is in place over the area today and will slowly weaken early Saturday. Forecast soundings especially from the NAM show the cap weakening enough for a few thunderstorms as frontal convergence looks strong enough to bust through any remaining capping.
Expect light rain to begin to develop within the sea fog after 300am and become more widespread by 600am as the front and strong lift approach from the west. Convection (thunderstorms) will likely backbuild SW from NW LA and E TX Saturday morning along the frontal boundary. Do not expect a solid line of storms, but more scattered in nature with better coverage likely near the coast where the best moisture and splitting jet structure is noted. Severe threat looks marginal at best given unfavorable time of day (morning) and weak instability, but a few storms could be strong. Rainfall amounts will average .25 to .75 of an inch.
Rain should end fairly quickly behind the front, but clouds look to linger much of the day and with increasing NW winds and cold air advection it will feel much colder. Temperatures will fall into the upper 50’s and low 60’s behind the front and hold steady in that range much of the day.
High pressure builds over the region Saturday night with skies clearing and light winds expect good radiational cooling. Lows in the upper 30’s to 40 are likely and a few locations could see some frost Sunday morning.
Moisture return begins again by Monday as the next storm system heads from the Rockies toward the central plains. Dynamics look much more impressive with this upper level storm system and capping may be weaker suggesting at better shot at thunderstorms next Wednesday.
49f and dropping here at the house with winds gusting to 35 mph steady in the 20-30 mph range. Only 0.02" of spit this am at the house. Code: Select all
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
1155 AM CST SAT MAR 05 2011
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0718 AM HAIL 6 S LAKE CHARLES 30.12N 93.20W
03/05/2011 M0.25 INCH CALCASIEU LA NWS EMPLOYEE
PEA SIZE HAIL AT NWS LAKE CHARLES OFFICE
0930 AM TSTM WND DMG 1 N CROWLEY 30.23N 92.38W
03/05/2011 ACADIA LA BROADCAST MEDIA
*** 3 INJ *** KATC REPORTS MODERATE BUILDING DAMAGE NEAR
A WAFFLE HOUSE ALONG HWY 100 AND 13 JUST NORTH OF I-10.
ADDITIONAL DAMAGE INCLUDES TWO RUPTURED GAS LINES. KATC
ALSO REPORTS 3 MINOR INJURIES ASSOCIATED WITH THE STORM.
POSSIBLE TORNADO
1000 AM TSTM WND DMG RAYNE 30.24N 92.27W
03/05/2011 ACADIA LA BROADCAST MEDIA
*** 9 INJ *** KATC REPORTS 9 INJURIES INCLUDING 1 SERIOUS
INJURY STEMMING FROM THE POSSIBLE TORNADO TOUCHDOWN NEAR
RAYNE. THOSE INJURED ARE BEING TRANSPORTED TO THE RAYNE
CIVIC CENTER AND FIRE STATION FOR TREATMENT.
1000 AM TSTM WND DMG RAYNE 30.24N 92.27W
03/05/2011 ACADIA LA TRAINED SPOTTER
BUILDING DAMGE REPORTED BY LAFAYETTE SKYWARN SPOTTER
NETWORK IN RAYNE. POSSIBLE TORNADO.
1000 AM TSTM WND DMG RAYNE 30.24N 92.27W
03/05/2011 ACADIA LA LAW ENFORCEMENT
ACADIA SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTS ROOF DAMAGE TO SEVERAL
HOMES NEAR RAYNE.
1005 AM MARINE TSTM WIND 21 SW ROCKEFELLER WILDL 29.44N 92.98W
03/05/2011 M48.00 MPH GMZ452 LA AWOS
PLATFORM EAST CAMERON 47 MEASURED WIND GUST TO 42 KNOTS
OR 48 MPH.
1030 AM HAIL WASHINGTON 30.62N 92.06W
03/05/2011 E0.25 INCH ST. LANDRY LA PUBLIC
NWS STUDENT VOLUNTEER REPORTED PEA SIZE HAIL NEAR
WASHINGTON.
1140 AM MARINE TSTM WIND 1 SSE BURNS POINT 29.56N 91.52W
03/05/2011 M42.00 MPH ST. MARY LA ASOS
NWS ASOS AT SALT POINT REPORTED WIND GUST TO 36 KNOTS OR
42 MPH.
