Boringly Beautiful Christmas Week

A quick cool snap tonight through Saturday morning, then it’s a mostly warm and precipitation free Christmas week through Sunday Dec. 28. The only big concern might be fog on Chistmas Eve AM and Christmas morning. So if you’re the type that has to make it out at the crack of dawn on Christmas to visit Uncle Charlie in Chalmette, Aunt Dolly in Destrehan or Gullible George in Gulfport, keep a weather eye open to see if this materializes.

The Foreca graphic overdoes the precipitation tonight with the cold front. Scattered showers should make it down as far as Western St. Tammany to Picayune, but will probably die out before they get to Slidell, the Southshore, or the Bay St. Louis area. Amounts will be light.

Tomorrow will be noticeably cooler than today’s balmy 78 deg. weather. Even still, lows in the low 40s and highs in the low 60s is about normal. After a 40 degree morning in suburban & rural areas on Saturday, you’ll be shedding clothes by 10 AM as the temps. bust 70 by afternoon under sunny skies.

A weak warm front advances northward from the Gulf on Sunday giving us a chance of some light morning showers before afternoon warmth under partly cloudy skies. Rain chances maybe 40%. A slightly cooler Monday with a mix of clouds and sun, and then the warmth is on with lows in 50s and highs is low 70s through Christmas. Again, watch out for AM fog on Wednesday and Christmas morning. Temperatures should get even warmer with highs in upper 70s next Friday.

Expect another warm one next Saturday Dec. 27 before a cold front pushes through that Sunday. Precipitation, if any, will be light. High temperatures should be down in the 60s with lows in the 40s for the last few days of the year. Not anticipating any freeze until 2026.