It’s like being in an oven with a humidifier inside. Those values will continue to rise as the sun beams down overhead. This intense heat and humidity has allowed for areas of diurnal cumulus clouds to develop. Highs may hit 100 with heat indexes peaking above 105. These clouds will likely have limited vertical growth due to synoptic level…

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We’ll get to the heat (though some of you are still feeling it right now). Right now there is several areas of scattered convection ongoing across mainly Mississippi. These storms will be very slow moving and outside of some heavy rain and lightning, remain fairly benign. By early next week though most of you are going to be wishing…

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Regional Outlook Bye bye, Bertha! I hope she didn’t have too much of an impact on your week. Thankfully, she is moving off to the west and will weaken into a tropical depression and eventually a post-tropical system by this weekend. What’s left in her wake, a nice area of high pressure! While this high pressure will keep us…

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Good afternoon! As I’m writing this at 3p CDT, we have a bit of action on our radar. First, you can see tropical storm Bertha, whose center is at the TX/LA border, and if you look further south in Texas, you can see her main area of convection. There’s also an area of storminess in south central Mississippi between…

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Tropical Storm Bertha made her second landfall near the Texas-Louisiana border around 2 p.m. EST today, less than 24 hours after making landfall in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, yesterday. Bertha is currently located between Lake Charles, Louisiana, and Beaumont, Texas, and is moving west at around 10 mph, with maximum sustained winds of 46 mph and gusts up to…

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