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10/15/2024
WT Staff
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October 15, 2024 updated 145 pm CDT
Strong cold front coming into the region tonight
Hazardous Weather Outlook issued 427 am October 15 by NWS Shreveport
Much cooler and drier air will spill south into the region this evening and overnight with the passage of a strong cold front. However, no hazardous weather is expected.
Very low humidities and gusty northeast winds atop dry grounds will promote an elevated fire danger across the region Wednesday, which will promote the ignition and spread of any wildfires that develop. Outdoor burning is strongly discouraged, even away from areas where burn bans are not in effect. Mild days, cool nights, and dry
conditions will continue across the region each day through Monday.
Impacting Union-Caddo-Bossier-Webster-Claiborne-Lincoln-De Soto-Red River-Bienville-Jackson-Ouachita-Sabine-Natchitoches-Winn-Grant-
Caldwell-La Salle Parishes
Safe Drinking Water Advisories
St Tammany Parish: Boil water advisory was issued following a water main break yesterday. Crews shut off water service for connections along Hwy 59 between Interstate 12 and Hoffman Rd.
Streamflow Situation from the network of USGS streamflow gauges in Louisiana
An even mix of normal and below normal water levels measured through the rivers and bayous Tuesday. The drought map has shifted overnight, Region 3 retains extreme drought along Bayou Macon-Tensas River with severe drought east from there to the Mississippi border with West Carroll, Richland and Franklin Parishes now unrated. The remainder of Region 3 is rated below normal. Region 5 watershed has filled in with below normal rated area, from Evangeline and Acadia Parishes now extended east. Region 7 watershed is filled in entirely below normal right up to Tangipahoa Parish, still in moderate drought, St Tammany and Washington are still unrated.
No flooding or high flows, no extreme low flows to the 1st percentile are recorded as of this report.
WT HAB Tracker from the satellite monitoring program of National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS)
The latest image of Lake Pontchartrain and the southeast water bodies is dated Oct 14, a clear image captured at wind speed of 4.4 mph. Lakes Pontchartrain and Maurepas are partially cloud obscured, no HAB visible in cloud breaks. The prior image October 12 shows open water HABs dispersed throughout Lake Maurepas. In the Oct 14 image, Lac des Allemands and Bayou Fortier are partially cloud obscured with widespread after a period with no visible bluegreen activity. Lakes Cataouache and Salvador have low to no HAB activity according to this image. Lakes Verret and Palourde HABs have come back on as lakewide in extent, the concentration edging up to 800 thousand cells per ml. Black Bay widespread HAB is back up in concentration as well, 800 thousand cells per ml. See the latest satellite image of southeast LA water bodies, here.
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