The monsoonal weather will continue uninterrupted on Wednesday which means more wet weather across Acadiana.
Showers will be on an off through the day with the occasional thunderstorm, although we're not expecting any severe weather.
Our biggest concern will be monitoring for some flash flooding during the heaviest rain, particularly in southwest Louisiana where showers will be the heaviest.
As moisture continues to linger through the week there's not much of a break expected from the rain over the next few days.
The rain is keeping temperatures lower than average and highs will remain in the low to mid 80s over the next few days.
There does seem to be a break in the pattern starting over the weekend when the showers, while still present, will become a bit more scattered.
As next week starts we'll be back to our regularly scheduled summer programming.
Wednesday afternoon update concerning the ongoing weather pattern:
Given recent soaking rains across Southwest Louisiana the Weather Prediction Center has increased the risk of excessive rainfall to "moderate", level 3 out of 4, through Thursday.
An additional 2-4"+ possible in spots across the moderate risk area. Pattern should slowly improve starting Friday...but rain chances don't get back below 50% until after the weekend.
TROPICAL UPDATE:
While Acadiana will continue to deal with plenty of tropical moisture spanning out of the Western Gulf of Mexico over the next day or two, there are also hints that the Atlantic Basin tropics will begin to come alive within the next 2-3 weeks.
The atmospheric planetary wave pattern is expected to be more conducive for development in the mid-Atlantic with the last 3 runs of the Euro Model picking up on a wave that will emerge off of the African coast by this weekend.
The Euro develops this wave near the Central Caribbean 7-10 days out while the GFS sees nothing more than a weak wave at best, but with possible development in the Western or Southwestern Caribbean 8-10 days out.
All too far out for any certainty, but we will be entering the most active part of the season in the 2-3 week time-frame...so this would be on climatological cue.
Bottom line: Nothing to be concerned with at this time, but the tropics will be getting back on the radar in about a week's time. Next name up: "Debby".
