WAFB First Alert Weather

Check out this Friday morning's sunrise over Baton Rouge! TGIF

Election Day Tuesday morning look at Washington DC on Sky9. Beautiful sunrise over the Lincoln Memorial! Get out there and vote! Geaux Vote

Tracking our next big cold front that will arrive late Election Day Tuesday into predawn Wednesday. This won't be a huge rain-maker, but we could use every drop we can get! There is a marginal, level one risk of strong to severe storms late Tuesday into daybreak Wednesday.

Don't cancel trick-or-treat or Halloween plans, as we'll only have a few showers/storms in the area. The GRAF model shows relatively dry weather Saturday evening, but the HRRR shows a few storms in our Baton Rouge area. We'll have a 30%-40% chance. Cold front moves in next week.

BREAKING...SEVERE DROUGHT ACROSS BATON ROUGE. The new drought monitor this Thursday morning shows severe drought conditions now in Baton Rouge and extreme drought to the west. We could see a drought busting/helping rain midweek next week, as the next cold front comes to town.

Time to turn the clocks back this weekend as DAYLIGHT SAVING ENDS. Other weather headlines, the full Hunter's moon is out and shining. And wouldn't you know it, our next chance of rain will be....Halloween Saturday. It's not going to be a washout so don't cancel plans.

BREAKING...SEVERE DROUGHT MOVES INTO EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH. More dry weather and more burn bans in the near future for much of Louisiana. If you're in a burn ban, take the necessary precautions.

METEOR SHOWER COMING TO A THEATRE NEAR YOU. Check out the ORIONIDS METEOR SHOWER tonight and Thursday night, visible in the late night sky. You'll want to look away from the moon, towards the constellation, Orion. The best time to look is after midnight. Great wx, great vis.

ARE YOU READY FOR TEMPS IN THE 40s? GRAB YOUR JACKETS AND GUMBO POTS! A big-time COLD FRONT will move through our area later today. We'll still have one more warm day today, then we'll stir up the winds and drop temperatures significantly this evening! 40s expected Sunday AM!

WEEKEND COOL-DOWN AHEAD...But first, we have a few more days of heat through the end of the work week. On Friday, a sharp COLD FRONT will move through our area, dropping temps. Forecast lows Saturday/Sunday AM, down to the mid 50s in Baton Rouge.

BREAKING....HURRICANE ISAIAS IS OFFICIALLY A CAT THREE WITH 120 MPH WINDS!

BREAKING...HURRICANE ISAIAS NEARING CATEGORY 3! As of 4AM, max sustained winds are at 110 mph. Cat 3 starts at 111 mph, so just one more mph and we'll have a major hurricane. Still looks like landfall will be Friday night near the Florida/Alabama line.

WE JUST MISSED A 121-YEAR RECORD BY MINUTES! The latest-arriving first hurricane in recorded Atlantic history occurred on this day, October 8th, 1905. Isaias became a hurricane last night at 11:30PM...if it was upgraded 30 minutes later, we would have tied that long record!

The track of Tropical Storm Isaias has shifted farther to the east this Wednesday morning! The new landfall area is now on the Alabama side of the Alabama/Mississippi border. In fact, it could even get closer to the Florida panhandle. Stay tuned.

BREAKING...TROPICAL STORM ISAIAS HAS FORMED IN THE GULF...And now the NHC official track has slightly shifted a bit more to the east, with landfall near the Alabama/Mississippi line late Friday night. The storm is still expected to reach a category two.

The 7AM update is out, showing the Gulf low has a 90% chance of development. Tuesday computer models move the Gulf storm east of Baton Rouge, but it's still too close for comfort. Spaghetti plots show a landfall late Friday into Saturday between New Orleans and Gulf Shores.

Breaking...The National Hurricane Center has now put a 70% (high) chance of tropical development of an area of low pressure in the southern Gulf. This means a tropical depression is likely to form over the next few days, but beyond that, there is still a lot of uncertainty.

There is now a 50% medium chance of tropical development of a Gulf low. Since this system has not yet developed, there is low confidence in the forecast impacts for our local area. Also, there is a lack of agreement across the computer models, so lots of uncertainty still exists.

TODAY SHOULD BE OUR LAST DAY IN THE 90S FOR A LONG TIME! That's the silver lining to this weekend's wet weather forecast. Two cold fronts will move in, one this weekend, and then another early next week. We're still expecting a high chance of rain/storms this Saturday and Sunday.

I don't think the next few days will be a washout, and we don't have any flood watches/warnings at this time, but expect elevated rain chances this weekend. Forecast rain totals will vary, and they will be higher by the coast. 2-4" expected in Baton Rouge.