Category: Forecast Blogs (Legacy)

Heavy Rain Tonight; Cooler and Rainy Friday with A Gradual Weekend Warm-Up. Beautiful Easter Sunday!

Tonight

Showers and thunderstorms will move into our region over the next several hours. The main threat is locally heavy rainfall, which the National Weather Service highlights in their afternoon discussion:

Some strong to maybe a couple of severe thunderstorms possible, but in analysis of model sounding profiles, this looks more and more like mainly a rain making event with some heavy downpours this evening causing local ponding of water on area roadways and possible minor flooding of flood prone areas. read more

Windy Afternoon, then Heavy Rain, Storms Tonight: ETAs, Potential Hazards. Anxiety Level: Low.

Big storm system churning through Louisiana, Arkansas, and Mississippi today will be here tonight.

Local worry level: low.

Before-Storm Winds

Before storms, gusts to 40 MPH possible. Blowing in from the south, crossing perpendicular to east-west highways (I-40, I-840, and I-440*), so be especially careful driving big trucks. Don’t get blown out your lane. read more

Scattered Showers for Saturday, Severe Storms on Sunday, Cooler on Monday

This Afternoon and Tonight

We start out the day with showers thanks to a new system out of the Southwest, some of these showers will be heavy at times. Get ready for an off and on rainy day.

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The HRRR is showing scattered rain and thunderstorms possible throughout the afternoon and into the evening.  Here is the latest HRRR model (below), showing these scattered showers push off to our Northeast around 7PM.  read more

Wet and Unsettled Weekend Ahead

This Afternoon and Tonight

A beautiful, sunny, warm, and breezy afternoon will give way to increasing clouds with showers and thunderstorms late tonight into tomorrow morning as a cold front swings through.  Out ahead of, and behind this front, we will continue to see windy conditions, which is why the National Weather Service has placed us under a Wind Advisory until 1 am Friday. NWS: read more