Record heat leading up to chance for storms late Friday

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Temperatures continue to climb as we are still dealing with a rapid warming trend. Highs this afternoon will climb into the mid 80°s. By Thursday and Friday some neighborhoods will even reach the upper 80°s. The current forecast calls for record breaking highs Thursday and Friday. The forecast of 87° both days breaks the old records of 86°.

Our next cold front arrives late Friday into early Saturday. Weather models are beginning to trend towards pushing the worst of this system to our north. That would lead to a majority of the severe and flood concerns out of our viewing area. We aren’t completely ready to sound the all clear, but this is a promising trend.

Showers and t-storms will be most numerous ahead of a cold front. That should be pushing through the local area late evening into predawn Saturday. One or two storms could become strong to severe. Damaging wind is the main concern. Most will receive less than 1″ if not 0.50″ of rain. Flooding is a very limited threat.

Saturday will be a beauty with a slight cool down and clearing skies through the day. It doesn’t take long for rain to return. The late Friday cold front will move back north as a warm front Saturday and trigger sct’d to numerous showers and t-storms Sunday into Monday. Some periods of heavy rain are possible and could lead to minor nuisance type flooding. Another cold front arrives Tuesday morning to help clear out the rain for the middle of next week and provide a slight cool down.

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