Meteorologist Ashley Renee has your 6:15 am forecast. Good morning and happy Thursday/4th of July. There were a few showers south of Baton Rouge earlier this morning. Scattered showers and thunderstorms will develop and move into our area this afternoon and evening. This will be another hot day of course with highs in the mid and upper 90s. Heat indices will be near 110. A heat advisory will be in effect for our area from 10 am until 7 pm. Now that the ridge of high pressure is weaker and starting to move away from our area, this allows the temps to come down a couple of degrees. An upper level trough moving into our area from the northwest will also help the ridge to break down and flatten. A weak front moving into the area will also help increase rain chances. There will probably still be showers this evening in our area, but that should gradually dissipate sometime this evening/tonight. Overnight lows will be near 80 degrees. Skies will be partly cloudy so you should still be able to see fireworks. Friday’s highs will be in the mid 90s. Isolated showers are possible along the coast in the morning, but scattered showers and thunderstorms should be in the Baton Rouge area during the afternoon and evening. This is the same pattern we’ll have for a few more days. Highs in the mid 90s, overnight lows near 80 degrees, mostly dry in the morning with showers developing across our area in the afternoon and evening. Tracking the tropics: Hurricane Beryl is still a major hurricane. As of 4 AM Thursday morning, it’s a Category 3. Although it has weakened, this is still a major hurricane. It has maximum sustained wind speeds of 120 mph and its pressure is 968 mb. It’s moving WNW at 20 mph. Beryl is encountering an area with a bit more wind shear so that’s helping it to weaken some in addition to its interaction with land (Jamaica). It’s expected to weaken more once it reaches the Yucatan Peninsula sometime on Friday. It should leave the Yucatan peninsula and cross into the Gulf sometime on Saturday. There may be enough wind shear to help it not re-strengthen after it enters into the Gulf. As of now, it looks like it should remain a tropical storm while it moves through the Gulf, but it may try to get stronger and upgrade to a Cat.1 hurricane before it makes landfall. The projected track still shows it making landfall near the NE coast of Mexico/southern tip of Texas late Sunday night/early Monday. The only impacts we may see is increasing tropical moisture moving into our area which will help rain chances to be a little higher next week. Invest 96L is still moving into the Caribbean, but it has low chances of continuing to develop into an organized system to become a tropical depression or storm. There’s still disorganized shower and thunderstorm activity associated with this tropical wave. However, we will continue monitoring this to see its possible progression as it continues moving into the Caribbean. Thanks for watching. Have a triumphant Thursday!
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