Saturday: Isolated showers and thunderstorms after 1pm. Partly cloudy and hot, with a high around 98. Heat index values as high as 114. Calm wind becoming northeast around 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
And just a little bit SW of here...
Saturday: Isolated showers and thunderstorms after 1pm. Partly cloudy and hot, with a high around 100. Heat index values as high as 118. Calm wind becoming north around 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
It's been a long time since I can say officially that such heat indices have occured around here, though I can say from experience, it always seems much hotter in the Atchafalaya area this time of year, doubtless due to the humidity, than in Baton Rouge. I've got a camp just outside the "Spillway" levee (which contains the Atchafalaya Basin/Floodway) by maybe 400 feet.
I've placed thermometers in different places around my camp and gotten roughly the same temperature readings (in the shade of course), but on calm, hot summer days, there are definitely "pockets" of much higher humidity. When you're trying to cut grass that's two month's behind schedule being cut in July or August, you definitely notice such microscale variances. I guess this probably happens elsewhere too. Anyone got any ideas what cause these "pockets?" That's the best I can describe it.
Huck