Monthly Archives: December 2011

There is plenty of bitterly cold air around the Arctic Circle, but unlike the past few winters, it’s not making much of a push southward.  While there isn’t much of a difference between this winter and last winter regarding El … Continue reading →

Much cooler air is moving into Acadiana for the weekend. We’ll drop into the mid to upper 40s by Saturday morning, then fall into the mid to upper 30s Sunday morning as patchy frost forms. Highs each day will reach … Continue reading →

You know how moisture forms on a cold beverage when you take it out of the fridge (especially in the summertime)?  Well, we’re seeing the same thing tonight on a much larger scale.  Humid air (dew point temps in the … Continue reading →

  The warmer air has returned to Acadiana, but we are tracking a cold front to our northwest. Right now that cold front is northwest of Dodge City, Kansas. The cold front will move through late tomorrow, and we will … Continue reading →

We are going to see much warmer air move into Acadiana this week. Highs will reach the upper 70s on Thursday and while we won’t be setting any record highs, we won’t be too far off. Records highs this time … Continue reading →

    The warming trend has started, and this week will be much warmer than last week. We had two days last week when the temperatures didn’t get out of the 40s, and the temperature dipped into the upper 20s … Continue reading →

Last Tuesday the GOES-15 also known as the GOES-West took its first infrared image over the Pacific ocean. As you can see in the image above the colorized portions are cloud temperatures, which is an indication of storm intensity. This … Continue reading →

From east to west, north to south on this map…it was COLD Thursday morning! Low temperatures dropped to the freezing mark or below from Texas to Florida. We saw a low of 28° at Lafayette and 23° at Alexandria. The … Continue reading →

  We saw one of the coldest mornings we’ve seen so far this fall.  Lows were in the low 30s, but the wind chill values were down in the low to mid 20s. It looks as though the cold air … Continue reading →

Around 36% of the United States was covered in snow Tuesday morning, a sure sign that winter is here! The latest system dumped snow as far south as New Mexico and Texas. This system isn’t done, though, as parts of … Continue reading →