The forecast for Acadiana looks good for the next 36 hours, but another weather system promises to bring a better soaking to the area Friday.
In the near term, expect colder conditions with lows in the low-mid 30s by Thursday morning accompanied by the risk of patchy ground fog developing by daybreak.
Thursday will be a nice, sunny January day with highs reaching the lower 60s.
Clouds will return Thursday night with temperatures holding in the 40s ahead of the next Gulf of Mexico low pressure system that arrives Friday.
Friday's system will be more robust in the rain department as compared to last night's (3/4-1.5") rains with the possibility of some embedded thunder thanks to a more northern low pressure system track, as compared to the one that passed through the region/Gulf early Wednesday.
Expect a solid 1-2" of rain Friday, with isolated areas possible getting closer to 3"...widespread flooding however, is not anticipated, nor any severe weather, which should be confined to the Gulf of Mexico, so beware mariners/offshore crews.
A fortuitous break in the pattern arrives this weekend with partly cloudy skies along with seasonably cool temperatures.
The next weather-maker for Acadiana should arrive later Monday into Monday evening with another round of 1-2" of rain a fairly decent bet.
In addition, Monday's system will run farther north bringing a better chance of thunderstorm dynamics and perhaps the risk of severe storms per the Storm Prediction Center.
As always in the winter, the cooler shelf water temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico may try to put a lid on the severe weather dynamics, nonetheless Monday's system will have some gusty southeasterly winds ahead of it and gusty northwesterly winds behind it into Tuesday.
There's pretty good model agreement between the EURO and GFS models along with Weather Prediction Center consistency that between Friday's and Monday's weather system, rain accumulations will likely approach 3-4" in many spots.
And as always with El Niño winters inducing a dynamic sub-tropical jet stream, a few isolated areas could pick up double the aforementioned amounts.
So after the antecedent rains this week, there could be some localized street flooding, at the very least, come Monday evening...and there may be some in a few spots with the Friday system.
Thereafter, most of next week looks relatively quiet, but more wet weather will be possible toward the end of the week and perhaps, into the following weekend.
See the KATC 10 Day Forecast for the latest.
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