New Orleans, WDSU Weather Alert Day for Severe Weather
Updated: 2:22 PM CST on March 8, 2024
Hopefully tonight will see some drier weather conditions for us here at home on this weather alert day. But we have to get past these lines of rain and storms that we're seeing now, right. We see that this may continue until midnight hour. Just to let you know, but for now, let's take a quick look behind me here. You see the wind here, down the street from us here in Harmony Circle. In fact, there was very little rain. I want to take you to the North Shore real quick too. You see strong winds and storms. The white caps are already on the water, and these winds are continuing to pick up. We are now seeing wind gusts reaching into the 30s in some cases. Let's take you right back to see how it all works. Now, back in the rain area, I'm going to head towards the wall. We will prepare everything here for you. As you can see now, this is what happens. These storm cells that you see were packing a few hailstones here just south of Billy Chase and moving over Lake Bourne. Right now, you can see all the way to hoping for a little bit of that as well, and picking up a little bit of hail, just go to Bourne Lake, which continues to move forward. What we've seen over the last hour or so. Let's show this here real quick so you can see what's going on. the wind is blowing. I'm going to put this up for you real quick so you can see the wind is picking up pretty strong here. As you can see, up to 31 mph over Belle Chase and then 29 over SLIDEL, and 33 over at COVINGTON. We'll take a quick look at what's been happening again over the past hours, for example, here. I'm going to highlight this here for you and of course, the storm risk that we're going to pick up here. This is what we are committed to. You're stuck with this serious threat, which is a minor severe weather risk. We'll continue to move forward looking at the hail associated with this, and the possibility of that happening during the day, you're looking at at least a 15% chance on the North Shore. This continues above in yellow here. And then for the browns, as you see fit for us on the South Shore, you're looking at at least a 5% job opportunity. We do the same thing with the wind, as the wind will do almost the same thing on the north shore as well as on the south shore. As far as hurricane activity goes, we'll be picking this up a lot on the North Shore as well. This will be a risk that will happen. It's a 5 to 2% chance. Let's send it back here. We'll go over how this all works so you can get started with your local weather here, showing us what this will all look like. We will at least move it to areas by way of Bogalusa. We'll walk this through for you, and show you how it's all going to play out. We now begin with the conditions necessary for the sky to be at least clear. We are now holding out for rain, at least as I explained to you. As we get it, it's mostly on the south shore right now. We'll be moving it to the North Shore, where we'll be looking at similar playing conditions as you see here. Eventually, we're going to get this out of the way and get back to what's going to happen for you here as we go back to the second weather here and off, we're going to stick with the conditions to be like this, wherever you're looking at at least 70 degrees and some close to 80 degrees there. We're sticking with what it feels like, at least up to 80 degrees, 76 to 81 degrees for your local temperatures today, with rain and storms locally at times. This will continue. Let's go over this during the afternoon. You're looking at the potential for storm activity as we head right into the early 12:30 hours and into the latter part of 12:30 AM, as we move into 3:00 after the storms move over the North Shore. The bulk of this will go from coastal areas, from Galiano operating all the way north here to the metro and then back to the North Shore. Then once we got to 9:00. So, after dinner, and the dinner cruise, you'll at least be looking for the conditions to retreat for yourself. Slowly but surely, we will be going to more secluded showers and continuing with more bathing activities to finish out the night hours. You're looking at us as we head into Saturday, 8:00 AM. We're so dry. We're sticking to the sixties. By the time we got to 3:00, at least. Or eventually, we're looking at conditions where we should be at least in the 50s. So we'll stick to your terms that it's pretty much contained today and in the early morning hours tomorrow at about 3:00, at 80 degrees today, 70 degrees on Saturday and Sunday, of course, we have daylight saving time. We will move your clock forward by one hour. You're looking at 70 to 66 degrees. This cold air comes from the four corners area and starts cooling us down. We'll be raising temperatures by the time we get to Monday and Tuesday. Above average seasonal temperatures will hold themselves for us locally and then enter the L
New Orleans, WDSU Weather Alert Day for Severe Weather
Updated: 2:22 PM CST on March 8, 2024
NEW ORLEANS, WDSU Severe Weather Alert Day: From 11 a.m. this morning through early afternoon, rain and isolated storms will begin to increase over southeastern Louisiana from the coastal southwest and track east-northeast for the better part of the day. Severe weather threat with damaging winds of 15-25 mph, gusts to 40 mph, and a 15%-5% chance of severe hazards (higher over the North Shore). The risk of severe large hail is also a 15%-5% possibility (higher over the North Shore). A severe tornado threat represents a 5%-2% chance of storms today. By 2pm Friday, severe storms are sweeping across the North Shore from the coastal southwest. There are some isolated storms over parts of the South Shore between 2pm and 4pm today. Now, before the Friday evening commute begins, storms and rain become scattered pushing some storms and rain near Hammond by I-55 and along I-10, Interstate 90 on the south shore in Jefferson Parish heading east to northeast as you navigate the Evening. So, people driving, walking or riding will be in and out of rain and storms (nothing out of the ordinary for SELA). Around 7pm-9pm, isolated storms and rain will be light to heavy at times in smaller bands crossing the area. The lake runs from southwest to northeast toward the north shore between Slidell and Bogalusa, affecting Pearl River, Hancock, and Harrison counties in Mississippi. The South Shore will see some scattered storms and even rain. Around 10pm to 11pm Friday, storms continue to our north, but some scattered showers and a chance for storm activity may remain until midnight on both sides of the lake. This should last into early Saturday (for now) with a slight chance of rain overnight and early Saturday. * Rainfall amounts from 11 a.m. today to 1 a.m. Saturday are 0.10 – 1.80 inches
Weather Alert Day for New Orleans, WDSU for Severe Weather:
From 11 a.m. this morning through early afternoon, rain and isolated storms will begin to increase over southeastern Louisiana from the coastal southwest and track east-northeast for the better part of the day. The severe climate threat of harmful winds
15-25 mph, winds gusting to 40 mph, 15%-5% chance of severe danger (highest over North Shore). The risk of severe large hail is also a 15%-5% possibility (higher over the North Shore).
Severe tornado threat is 5% – 2% chance for storms today.
By 2pm on Friday, severe storms sweeping the northern shore from the southwest coastal. There are some isolated storms over parts of the South Shore between 2pm and 4pm today.
Now, before the Friday evening flight Scattered storms and rain will begin pushing some storms and rain near Hammond by I-55 and along I-10 and HWY 90 on the South Shore in Jefferson Parish's east-northeast path during the evening commute. So, people driving, walking or riding will be in and out of storms (nothing out of the ordinary for SELA).
aTour 7pm-9pm Isolated storms and rain will be light to heavy at times in smaller bands crossing the lake from southwest to northeast toward the north shore between Slidell and Bogalusa, impacting Pearl River, Hancock, and Harrison counties in Mississippi. The South Shore will see some scattered storms and even rain.
Around 10pm to 11pm on Friday, storms continue to our north, But a few isolated showers and a chance of storms Activity may continue until midnight on both sides of the lake. This should last into early Saturday (for now) with a slight chance of rain overnight and early Saturday.
*Rain amounts from 11 a.m. today to 1 a.m. Saturday
0.10 – 1.80 inches
