Beautiful Easter Week

Phenomenal weather should last through Easter with a few cool nights mid-week and then warmer and a bit more humid through Easter weekend. Want to join me for a live presentation on how businesses can better use forecasts? Read the last section for information.

Not much discuss, but here’s a few points:

1) I added a few degrees to the high temperatures above the Foreca graph since the soils and lower atmosphere is drying out.

2) Wednesday will be cooler with perhaps our last upper 40 degree lows of the spring on the Northshore. Temps will not dip below 55 on the Southshore. Wednesday afternoon high will be the only one staying below 80.

3) Humidity will increase on Friday, but nowhere near as much as we saw two weeks ago.

4) Afternoon fair weather cumulus will increase on Saturday and Sunday. Also…Can’t dismiss a few sprinkles on Easter Sunday afternoon, mainly Southshore. This won’t amount to anything since there’s no organized system to squeeze the moisture out.

Hit-and-miss scattered showers and perhaps a thunderstorm anywhere in the period Monday to Wednesday April 21 to 23. Rain chances appear to be highest late Tuesday into Wednesday, then decrease for the rest of that week. The week after Easter should be warm and humid with highs low 80s, lows about 70.

As we move into late Spring, the cold fronts that approach have a tendency to stall just to our west. This means places like Baton Rouge and McComb, MS get more rainfall that we do in late April and early May. Sometimes, thunderstorms from the stalled fronts propogate eastward and tend to hold together longer in inland locations such as Folsom and Bogalusa which get more rain than the I-12/I-10 corridor from Madisonville to Slidell to Gulfport. Let’s see if this happen this year.

More sun in the Gulf Shores, AL - Panama City, Florida strip than here and no rain chances in sight. The showers that will impact us the week after Easter should stop somewhere near Mobile. The Foreca graphic is for Pensacola Beach, so add a few degrees in the afternoon if you are off the beach. When highs hit the upper 70s to match the water temperatures, you could argue that it’s early beach weather.

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