On Wednesday, we were dealing with yet another round of severe weather before the cold front. Once again, a significant amount of trees came down near Big Branch in St. Tammany Parish. The National Weather Service has confirmed this is due to an EF-0 with 65 mile per hour winds and a path width of 50 yards. This was on the ground for 1.5 miles and tracked a path similar to last week’s EF-1.
Here are area-wide peak wind gusts recorded at several different measurement stations across our WGNO viewing area.
The good news is our forecast for clean-up efforts has been beautiful. Temperatures are now in the 60s and will continue to fall a few degrees as cooler air from last night’s cold front continues filtering in.
Thursday afternoon, we top out in the low 70s. Mid 70s for highs return into your weekend. Overnight, the 40s will return across both sides of Lake Pontchartrain. Our next rain chance will be Saturday before a wet pattern sets in next week.