Good evening! Once again, the forecast for today across New Orleans and southeast Louisiana was hot with humidity and a few storms keeping temperatures lower across both sides of Lake Pontchartrain! Feels like conditions are now ranging between the upper 80s and 90s.
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.
Tuesday 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 yesterday.
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 50 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 will approach Florida’s southern tip late tomorrow into early Wednesday. With lots of shear, the system should remain weak in intensity, making landfall as a tropical storm. This is moving at 14 miles per hour, slowing down considerably. The greatest impacts will be along and east of wherever the center tracks on shore, so being on the western side of this is best.
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