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Video forecast for Friday morning

Video forecast for Friday morning

After an even cooler start Friday morning, temperatures will gradually warm up over the weekend. Expect near-average conditions in mid-October with lows in the 50s and highs in the low 80s.

Today and tonight: You’ll be reaching for a jacket again early Friday as temperatures dip into the low 40s across the region and even top 30s near the LA-MS state line. With mostly clear skies, you’ll be able to catch a glimpse of the full Hunter’s Moon during the early morning drive until it sets around 8:30 a.m. On Friday there will be mostly sunny skies with some high clouds. Temperatures this afternoon will be several degrees higher than Thursday, near 79° in Baton Rouge. Winds today will be light from the northeast at 5 to 10 miles per hour and there will continue to be no humidity or rain.

If you have Friday night plans or are going to a high school football game, you’ll want to have a jacket handy. Once the sun sets at 6:29 p.m. tonight, temperatures will drop quickly. It will be a very fall evening in Louisiana with temperatures in the low 60s by 10 p.m. By daybreak Saturday, conditions will cool another 10 degrees, to the low 50s.

Next: This weekend will be very pleasant for outdoor activities, although a light jacket may be necessary in the early morning and evening. Each day begins with temperatures in the low 50s and full sunshine each afternoon brings warmer temperatures into the low 80s. There will be no showers to avoid and the humidity will remain comfortable throughout the weekend. The gradual weakening of temperatures will continue through early next week, with highs reaching the mid-80s. There are some signs that high clouds will spread into the sky from midweek, potentially limiting further warming. However, there is no sign of rain in Storm Station’s 7-day forecast.

College football: On The Bluff, Southern Homecoming activities are accompanied by very nice weather. Some light layers may be desirable in the morning and evening, but mid-afternoon festivities and evening festivities will feature sunshine and temperatures in the 80s. LSU fans traveling can expect clear and cool conditions in Fayetteville. Temperatures will range from the mid 40s at dawn to the mid 70s in the afternoon, dropping to the 60s and 50s during the game. You can find out how LSU has performed in these conditions in the past using Storm Station’s LSU Kickoff Weather Index HERE.

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The Tropics: A poorly defined area of ​​low pressure produces disorganized showers and thunderstorms that extend from the northern Leeward Islands a few hundred miles north across the adjacent Atlantic waters. Development, if any, of this disorder should be occurs slowly while moving rapidly from the west to the west-northwest Traveling at about 20 mph today, it will pass near or just north of the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, then near Hispaniola and the southeast Bahamas on Saturday. No further development is expected until the end of this weekend due to strong winds in the upper elevations.

There are still widespread showers and thunderstorms everywhere northwestern Caribbean Sea associated with an extensive lowland area Pressure gradually becoming better defined north of Eastern Honduras. Environmental conditions appear to be conducive for someFurther development in the next day or two and short lived A tropical depression or storm could form before the system moves inland over Belize and the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico on Saturday. Regardless of developments, locally heavy rain is expected in parts of Central America and southern Mexico until the weekend.

-Emma Kate C.

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