Area Forecast Discussion
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765 FXUS64 KLIX 071821 AFDLIX Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service New Orleans LA 121 PM CDT Fri Jun 7 2024 ...New AVIATION... .SHORT TERM... (Today through Saturday) Issued at 352 AM CDT Fri Jun 7 2024 Front has settled offshore where the only moisture available for and storm activity. So the drying throughout the column has been achieved bringing Precip numbers closer to zero than they have been for quite a while. Good dry weekend coming up. The only problem with dry is the heat, and temps will be topping out in the mid 90s each day. The dry air will allow us to keep the heat headlines off the page for now but conditions will still be quite warm with indices topping around 103F. && .LONG TERM... (Saturday night through Thursday) Issued at 352 AM CDT Fri Jun 7 2024 The next front will be finding its way here by Tue but moisture loading ahead of this front will start Monday and sh/ts could be produced by the later afternoon hours Monday but moreso Tue as forcing will be at its best with the front moving through late in the day. This front will force all of this moisture back into the gulf once more for Wed into the end of next week. There is a large plume of moisture from near the Yucatan NEward over the FL straits into the Atlantic. This plume normally comes into the gulf at some point this time of year and this is also when the headlines hit for flooding somewhere along the gulf coast(lots of times near the Houston area). This normally is sort of monsoonish once it stalls in a position where it continually provides deep tropical moisture to an area. Right on que, there is some indications that this plume will begin to move like a windshield wiper from where it is located now westward through the gulf. We will have to see where this sets up eventually to see which gulf coast areas will get the most rainfall from it. This is way past this fcast, so its just a synoptic trend that is being set. && .AVIATION...
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(18Z TAFS) Issued at 118 PM CDT Fri Jun 7 2024 VFR conditions under mostly sunny skies today. Winds will be light and generally out of the northeast. VFR will persist through the remainder of the TAF period.
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&& .MARINE... Issued at 352 AM CDT Fri Jun 7 2024 Light northerly winds today will become more variable Sat with a return flow Sun ahead of the next front that should stall offshore Wed bringing northerly winds to the area once again. All of these winds will be light outside any storms that are able to develop. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
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MCB 64 92 69 93 / 0 0 0 10 BTR 70 96 74 96 / 0 0 0 20 ASD 69 94 73 94 / 0 0 0 10 MSY 76 93 76 93 / 0 0 0 20 GPT 71 90 75 92 / 0 0 0 10 PQL 67 93 72 94 / 0 0 0 10
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&& .LIX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... LA...None. GM...None. MS...None. GM...None. && $$ SHORT TERM...TE LONG TERM....TE AVIATION...TJS MARINE...TE