Rain fell across the Bayou State in multiple rounds from Nov 29 into Dec 2 in association with two frontal passages and low pressure tracking across the northern Gulf. 

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Mother Nature delivers a reminder that we are now in "meteorological winter" (Dec, Jan & Feb) with a freeze tonight into early Wednesday morning.  Fortunately, this freeze will be just a "one-nighter" ... temps for Wednesday night/Thursday morning will be still by cold but should be above-freezing for all but possibly a few northernmost Louisiana communities.

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The hurricane season ended Sunday and for the first time since 2015 a hurricane did not make landfall in the U.S. There were 13 named storms, five hurricanes and four major hurricanes. Colorado State research scientist Phil Klotzbach says atmospheric conditions protected the U.S.

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There were two precipitation events during the 7-day monitoring period, both linked to frontal systems: the first on Nov 21-22 and a more significant event (particularly across northern Louisiana) on Nov 24-25 

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7-day rainfall was mainly limited to a frontal passage during the overnight hours of Dec 13 into the morning hours of Dec 14, with 7-day totals running below-normal for the vast majority of the state. 

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Rain has been a tough commodity statewide, with nothing in the last week, and most areas seeing less than half of our average over the last 30 days. That has brought some parts of Louisiana below normal for the last year and we’d been running a surplus for some time. That’s why parts of Louisiana are now in a severe drought, with 5% in that category, and 43% in moderate drought. There is some hope, though I tend to think models are a bit overdone on their current forecasts for rain. I’ll explain. 

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After a rain-free 7-day stretch for Louisiana (Nov 12-18), today's updated U.S. Drought Monitor (USDM) depiction for the Bayou State shows additional degradations with more than 40% of the state now posted as "in drought" (D1+D2).  

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Most of the Bayou State didn’t receive any precipitation during the 7-day period; the exception was mainly over southeastern and south-central portions of the state during the frontal passage of Nov 8-9. 

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Louisiana is nowhere near as dry (yet!) as the circumstances that developed during 2023 … but we are seeing some pockets of “critical” dryness in sections of the state.  Note that the LA Drought Team introduced two areas of D2 (‘Severe Drought’) to the latest Weekly Drought Monitor.  It’s the first time that any part of the state was tagged with D2 since late 2024.

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There's a lot going on in the world of weather, so I wanted to update you on the things you probably already know, and add some things you might not know. First off, there's a freeze warning for most of the state Tuesday morning. I'm confident you all know that since you're very tuned into the weather, and this will be the first freeze of the year for some. The freeze warning gets way down south to Houma and Abbeville, but I think immediate coastal areas will stay above freezing. After that, we will see a quick warm up, with temperatures approaching 80 by Wednesday.

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If the start to the work week was your rude awakening weather-wise, there will be more where that came from tomorrow morning. High temperatures today won’t get out of the 50s, and LSU Health Climatologist Barry Keim says it’ll be a little longer before this cold snap is over.

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It seems like most of what I’ve been talking about for the last several weeks is how dry it’s going to be. I think that will change in a couple weeks. I also think we have our first widespread freeze over parts of Louisiana on Tuesday morning. Let’s take a look at what’s on the way!

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There may officially be one month to go in the 2025 hurricane season, but State Climatologist Jay Grymes says for all intents and purposes, Louisiana will make it through this year unscathed.

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