The Farmer's Forecast: Actual Cold Front on the Way
By Nick Mikulas
I hope you all need some dry weather, because it looks like a pretty tame couple of weeks on the way as long as we can keep the tropics quiet. As it stands now, I don't think they'll be a major issue. It also looks like an actual cold front will roll through early next week! Let's take a look.
Let's start with our one chance for rain. That will come over the weekend from Saturday afternoon into Sunday. It looks like it'll be pretty scattered along our cold front. I don't see any real severe threat out of this, and rainfall totals should be manageable. Behind that front we will see dew points drop from the 70s into the 40s and 50s. We could see overnight lows on Monday in the upper 50s along I 20, with 60s, and low humidity in the rest of the state. Behind this front, it looks like several nice days, with sunny skies, and lower humidity.
I'm watching one area in the tropics, and the GFS model keeps trying to move this toward the eastern seaboard. Most ensemble guidance keeps this area well east of the United States mainland, but it's worth watching. There's still a signal that the tropics could get active in 7-10 days, which would be totally normal given the time of year. I still don't see any realistic threat to Louisiana, and will update things here if I do. As it stands, it looks like a decent couple of weeks to harvest if you need some dry time!