Wild Weather Rocking USA Will Be Socking Us Soon Enough

WLFI reporter and producer Julie Krizen and Brody do a great job of telling the weather story of the day. Bring the pets in and keep them warm. It will be a frigid Friday. The good news is that warmer 40s and even 50s will return for the weekend. Brody is a Florida dog and barks his approval of much warmer weather on the way. Julie who graduated from Florida State will have to get out her scarf, boots, and winter coat once again today. She never wore a scarf or boots before she moved to Indiana a few months ago. My, how times have changed! :) Stay warm Julie and make sure to layer up! That is my weather version of Boiler Up!

AMITE 8 INCHES
CROSSROADS 6 INCHES
HAMMOND 6 INCHES
MOUNT HERMAN 6 INCHES
COVINGTON 5-6 INCHES
ZACHARY 5.5 INCHES
LIVINGSTON 5.5 INCHES
BOGALUSA 5 INCHES
SUN 5 INCHES
FRANKLINTON 5 INCHES
GREENSBURG 4 INCHES
ENON 4 INCHES
NEW ROADS 3 INCHES
BATON ROUGE 3 INCHES
POPLARVILLE 3 INCHES
SUMMIT 3 INCHES
WOODVILLE 3 INCHES
TYLERTOWN 3 INCHES
MANDEVILLE 2.5 INCHES
PLAQUEMINE 2.5 INCHES
ABITA SPRINGS 2 INCHES
CLINTON 2 INCHES
CONVENT 2 INCHES
PORT ALLEN 2 INCHES
LIBERTY 2 INCHES
MCCOMB 2 INCHES
GONZALES 1.5 INCHES
NAPOLEONVILLE 1.5 INCHES
HAHNVILLE 1.5 INCHES
NEW ORLEANS 1 INCH

Here are the amazing snow totals in from Louisiana. They are talking about renaming Sun, Lousiana....Snow, Louisiana after they were buried in 5 inches of snow. Tons of power outages were reported as the heavy snow weighted down a lot of trees causing them to fall on power lines. We talked about the Texas snow last night. The same upper-level low that brought the unusual snow to Houston moved east and really got its act together. Areas near Baton Rouge reported thunder snow which is thunder, lightning, and heavy snow all at the same time. This happens if you have a really strong storm system lifting the air rapidly, the surrounding air is forced to rush in to the void created causing plenty of charge in the atmosphere that can spark lightning.

That is exactly what happened. Joy who is a good friend of our chief blogger Justin New sent in the picture of all pictures. Notice her cacti are covered in snow and I was honored that Joy from Louisiana actually listened to our weathercast via the phone last night at 6 p.m. Joy, my goal is to expand our weather blog and become more national and even international. We would love to hear more from you and see your great pictures, although the picture you sent me may have been a once in a hundred year event. Joy who lives in the Baton Rouge area had about 4 inches while some other areas to the north of her had 8 inches which went down as the biggest snow on record and those records date way back to the 1890s. Check out another great shot of the snow from Joy in Baton Rouge.

Nobody got any work done, except those making snowmen and snowballs for snowball
fights. Congratulations and thanks again Joy. Where does this leave Lafayette's
chances of a White Christmas? Well do not despair. I keep us at 70% for snow on
the ground. Here is the graphic I showed to back it up on last night's newscast.

Here is the good news if you are dreaming of a White Christmas. The long-range models are all pointing to plenty of good chances of snow. An average of 8 inches is expected in the next two weeks. The pattern is going to be a beast. Take a look at why below.

Notice Lafayette will be right in the middle of the battle zone. It looks like the coldest of the weather will be out west and across the northern Plains between now and December 20th while a ridge of high pressure builds in the southeast. Since Lafayette is right in the middle of the temperature contrast that means we will have plenty of storms to track. I am also worried about ice in this type of set-up. Hopefully we can get to the winter solstice without a big ice storm. Once we get to December 21st I think the western trough will move east once again which will increase our chances for a big snow once again just in time for Christmas. So right now I think our best chance of a six inch or more snowstorm would be between December 21st and 25th. So the timing does look like it is on our side if you do like Christmas snow.

Yes, this pattern is growing big fangs just in time for tonight's big full cold moon. Blame not the meteorologist but the full moon. Monday is a perfect example of this werewolf weather pattern developing. We could have early high in the middle 50s and then fall to the middle 20s by evening with a sticking snow. I told Jeff and Niccole some models have thunderstorms and snow on Monday and a couple have both taking place at the same time. It is that kind of pattern. This got Niccole's attention since she has never experienced thunder snow before. This may all change by Monday. If you are blaming the full moon take a look at it below! This picture does look a little eerie, yet beautiful.

Monty Sloan out at Wolf Park had some fun with photoshop and highlighted the colorful clouds we have had across the area the last few nights. The full cold moon also stands out quite brilliantly and I have some more moon facts I will be sharing with you tonight. So make sure to tune in to find out how much bigger and brighter it will be than the typical full moon. I will also break down the latest on one of our busiest seven day forecasts of the entire year. I cannot wait to see you. Have a great day. I will make sure to run an extra mile before work today. That is what it will take for all meteorologists in this pattern. Here is a nice full moon type song I thought you might enjoy to get you through our Friday the 12th!



Last but not least, I want to also wish a special Happy Birthday to my brother Brian! He is the one that had to put up with me waking him up in the middle of the night if there were any big weather events happening or sometimes I would just wake him up to give him a new weather report. Luckily he was my younger brother so I am still alive to tell you about it. He is a great brother and I thank him for being really the first person that would listen to my thousands of weather updates and forecasts, even if he many times had no choice. Thanks Brian and Happy Birthday! I think he was very excited when I married Julie. He finally has some peace and quiet at night. Now you have to deal with me. LOL :)