Luck Of The Irish & Italians, Another Warm Week, Cooler Weekend

 Many years ago, the late Eddie Renton came up with an idea of combining the Irish with the Italians for a parade with the theme "It's about time!"  Years later, Jason Renton runs what has become one of Metairie's largest & longest parades and the weather couldn't have been better.  Bright sunshine, a gentle breeze with highs 80+ made for great parade watching & the crowds were huge!

The LSU marching band led off the parade & fired up the crowd.  Many of the floats honored past Grand Marshals and some honored those recently passed.  I went just to watch, but got caught up in the excitement of catching stuff.  Only in New Orleans !

A few puffy clouds developed over south Louisiana, but the more concentrated clouds are ahead of our next cold front. This front will not pack a wallop and is not expected to bring us any rain.

There is a sharp temperature contrast either side of this front (92 St. Louis, 35 in Chicago!), but it is expected to lose it's upper support barely reaching south of us on Tuesday.  The reason for a front coming is the huge western upper ridge had been suppressed southward.

 

The air flowing across the country is now mainly west to east.  There will be a weak dip coming over the Great Lakes bringing them a cool down, but we'll just see a brief cooling here. A stronger front arrives for next weekend.

Finally, the recent rains & snow melt up north has brought down a mini surge to the lower Mississippi River.  The Carrollton gage briefly topped 8 feet today.

You can see the muddy waters on satellite views, especially at the mouth of the River.  Lakes Pontchartrain & Borgne look clean since we have not had any rain for days and the rivers flowing into them are weak.  Been trying to think of any ideas to do a podcast, but our weather remains boring.  Might be time to do another interview with someone?  Stay tuned!