Area Forecast Discussion
Issued by NWS Shreveport, LA
Issued by NWS Shreveport, LA
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744 FXUS64 KSHV 262333 AFDSHV Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Shreveport LA 533 PM CST Wed Nov 26 2025 ...New AVIATION... .KEY MESSAGES... Issued at 102 PM CST Wed Nov 26 2025 - Seasonably cool and dry conditions will prevail through the Thanksgiving holiday and on into Friday under high pressure. - Showers and thunderstorms return by this weekend, beginning Friday night and continuing through early Sunday morning as sharply colder air invades the region. - An increasingly progressive pattern will usher another trough and secondary cold front into the region by Monday, possibly allowing a brief window of wintry precipitation in SE OK/SW AR. && .DISCUSSION... Issued at 102 PM CST Wed Nov 26 2025 The influence of strong Canadian high pressure will maintain our current diurnal temperature trends through Friday, resulting in a seasonably cool and dry Thanksgiving holiday. In fact, overnight low temperatures will actually be trending slightly below average with nearly widespread 30s to around 40 degrees for the next few nights. Near calm winds will promote effective radiational cooling but some mid-level clouds are expected to shift into our northern zones later this evening through early Thursday morning, which may slightly inhibit the temperature fall. However, clear skies appear likely on Thursday night into Friday morning so look for overnight lows to be a few degrees colder tomorrow night with some of our northernmost zones dropping near to just below the freezing mark. Meanwhile, high temperatures will generally range from the mid 50s to lower 60s through the end of this week with winds veering more E/SE and increasing by Friday. Major changes are in store for the weekend as high pressure will shift east while a longwave trough spills south out of western Canada. Weak isentropic ascent ahead of the trough may allow for showers and isolated thunderstorms to begin across our western zones on Friday night before becoming more widespread on Saturday and Saturday night. A few strong thunderstorms cannot be ruled out, especially during Saturday afternoon and evening as frontal forcing is maximized. Convection should be exiting the region by around daybreak on Sunday morning with even colder air filtering in behind the front. A brief dry period will follow through Sunday night before another shortwave digs south from the Intermountain West into the Rockies and Southern Plains in this increasingly elongated longwave trough pattern. With a rather cold air mass already in place in advance of this next shortwave, we can`t rule out some mixed precipitation types across our far northern zones, possibly Monday morning and again Tuesday morning. However, the extent of moisture recovery is still very much uncertain at this point although isentropic forcing can be notoriously faster to occur in this pattern set-up so will have to monitor trends in guidance over the next several days to account for this possibility of a brief wintry mix early next week in our northern tier counties of SE OK and adjacent SW AR. Otherwise, it will just be a cold, raw and rainy period for the remainder of our region for early next week before we begin a modest warm-up with dry weather returning by mid-week Wednesday. /19/ && .AVIATION... (00Z TAFS) Issued at 528 PM CST Wed Nov 26 2025 VFR conditions prevail this evening across the terminals, with just some SCT mid and high clouds beginning to skirt northernmost airfields. These clouds will move SE through the overnight period and into early Thursday before thinning out and giving way to mostly clear skies by the afternoon. Best chance for these clouds to make for VFR ceilings is at TXK overnight. Otherwise, conditions should remain SCT. Winds becoming light out of the NE 5kts or less after sunset and veering slightly more E on Thursday, around 5-6kts. CK && .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Issued at 102 PM CST Wed Nov 26 2025 Spotter activation is not expected at this time. /19/ && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... SHV 40 60 39 60 / 0 0 0 0 MLU 37 58 34 57 / 0 0 0 0 DEQ 34 57 31 55 / 0 0 0 0 TXK 38 59 36 58 / 0 0 0 0 ELD 33 57 31 55 / 0 0 0 0 TYR 39 60 38 60 / 0 0 0 0 GGG 37 60 36 60 / 0 0 0 0 LFK 40 63 37 62 / 0 0 0 0 && .SHV WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AR...None. LA...None. OK...None. TX...None. && $$ DISCUSSION...19 AVIATION...23