Rain going to be hard to come by this week

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Our week ahead forecast will be highlighted by dry and less humid conditions. This type of weather ramps up fire concerns locally, so keep in mind a statewide burn ban remains in effect.

Rain chances really don’t start to increase until the beginning of next week when our next cold front approaches. A slim rain chance will exist Thursday for coastal areas as an easterly wave passes through the Gulf of Mexico.

Morning temperatures will be quite pleasant to start the work/school week. Morning lows will dip into the mid to upper 60°s. You’ll just have to be out around sunrise to really enjoy them. That’s because temperatures will climb quickly through the morning into the afternoon.

The afternoons will remain hot with highs in the mid 90°s this week. The silver lining will be the low humidity keeping feels like temperatures in the 90°s instead of triple digits.

Autumn/Fall officially arrives early Saturday morning. It won’t feel too much like Fall early on. We will see our next cold front the following Monday. Rain chances will be higher as the front pushes through and then slowly works across the region into the middle of the week.

Temperatures don’t take much of a dip with this next front.

We have said goodbye to Lee and Margot as of this weekend. But we’ve also said hello to Nigel which is forecast to become a major hurricane in the coming days. Thankfully Nigel is forecast to stay out to sea. We have two other features will be watching that could materialize by the end of the week.

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