Good evening! Once again, the forecast for today across New Orleans and southeast Louisiana was cooler with humidity and a few storms keeping temperatures lower across both sides of Lake Pontchartrain! Feels like conditions are now ranging between the upper 70s and 80s.
Afternoon highs reached the upper 80s or 90 once again today. Overnight, over both Northshore and Southshore locations, expect 70s on both sides of Lake Pontchartrain.
Thursday afternoon after lunch, there’s the chance we see additional widespread rain chances! Scattered activity cannot be ruled out with about a 60% threat of storms. Watch for localized heavy downpours that could lead to street flooding in some areas, much like we were seeing this weekend.
Of course, this is going to mean temperatures rise into mostly upper 80s or low 90s all week, feeling much hotter! Typical forecasts for early July!
Elsa is now a tropical storm again based off of its 45 mile per hour wind speeds. The National Hurricane Center classifies category 1 hurricanes when storms have 74 mile per hour to 95 mile per hour wind speeds.
Elsa continues approaching the Georgia, South Carolina state line late tonight to move further inland Thursday. Over land, the system will remain weak in intensity, eventually becoming a depression. This is moving at 16 miles per hour, speeding up as it moves north along the Atlantic coastline. It will potentially regain strength before impacting Washington, D.C. as well as New York and Boston.
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