Thursday 3AM Weather Update: Tropics quiet following Francine, storm surge warning remains

And welcome back. Yes, it's 256 here y'all. We were just talking about power outages. I have this weather software and it tracks power outages. It's so interesting. It says that roughly 85% of the customers in Lafoe are without power and 93% in La in Terrebonne are without power. So a large portion of our population down in the Bayou parish is without power. And then of course, we've got power outages all across the region thanks to Francine. Now, the rain was a big problem. We still have a lot of flooded roads. Let's just start with that at 3 a.m. And this is why was that core moved over the area? And I talked about it for about two days that our high resolution models really were thinking that this thing could jog further east and bring that core over us. And that's exactly what happened. Those high resolution models. I mean, they absolutely nailed this. I've really earned a new respect for those a couple of models that I've been tracking here and that's what the problem was. So we still have flash flood warnings for the metro and the river parishes and for Saint Tammany Parish and up in parts portions of Washington Parish. So we are still seeing some flooding in areas but the rain has stopped. We don't have any more rain that's expected. At least nothing heavy. There'll just be some light drizzle at times. We do still have tropical storm warnings but the good news, the winds are still coming down so the system continues to weaken. We're gusting to 36 in Slidell at the last hour, it was 46 the hour before that, it was like 56. So it's been steadily coming down, but it is still gusty this morning. So if you are someone who has to get out and actually go to work this morning, um, you don't have an option. The roads are gonna be a little bit gusty. So keep that in mind the rainfall moving north. We've got rain up to our north rain to our east and we're getting the dry air pulled in and while there could be a couple of showers here and there, we're not expecting any more additional heavy rain. Like what we saw last night is that eye wall moved through. There's the official track, moving it up to the north here. It'll be around Brookhaven, Mississippi at 7 a.m. near Memphis, Tennessee at about seven o'clock tonight and then it'll dissipate, it gets absorbed up into the jet stream and goodbye, Francine. Uh If you are curious about what else is happening out in the tropics. I'll do a quick little preview because our forecast after this is quiet, I don't have any other threats, but I wanted to make you aware of a few things. Um, if you are traveling to the east coast, we could see some low pressure develop off the Carolinas here in a couple days. That's something to watch for those areas. Once again, not expecting any other issues here. Our next seven days actually look very, very beautiful for September standards. We're talking about some lower humidity that's gonna be moving in with all this. And then this formed yesterday got overlooked because while we were busy with a hurricane, uh this is tropical depression. Uh, what are we calling this here? See, you never. Uh I love it. It's got a name. I can't figure. Oh, it's, it's tropical. Um, what is it? Ok. Seven is what we're calling it the depression this morning. So that's what we've got going on out there, but it does not look like it's gonna be an issue for anyone anytime soon and we're certainly not worried about it in our local area right now. So with Francine lifting away, we are still seeing some minor impacts. Yeah, those winds are gusty but our tides are still higher than normal. I do have storm surge warning still in effect for the area and more so for the North shore and South Mississippi, that's where we're still seeing quite high um water and right here around Bay Saint Louis. I'm checking in at the Bay Saint Louis or Waveland Yacht Club. Their tides are about 5 ft higher than normal. So that still shows that we have a roughly 5 ft surge down there over in Waveland and Bay Saint Louis. Now, high tide just happened for those areas. So tides will start to drop off later on into the late morning hours. But water is still quite high over here and over to the north shore and keep in mind our rivers are high too. Here's a quick river update. If you do live on the north shore, the rivers are rising this morning thanks to the rain, but also the surge coming in from the lake. So we are expecting rivers to rise for a big chunk of the next well, at least a couple of days. So all of our rivers are expected to rise into minor flood stage except for the Boga Faya that's expected to crest as a moderate flood stage. So it's slightly more significant there. None of these are gonna be record breaking. None of these are gonna be anything that you haven't dealt with probably many, many times, but the rivers are swollen and they're gonna stay high as go through today and into tomorrow. And then a lot of these rivers will start to drop into the weekend with that drier weather. So Francine, goodbye to it. Our seven day forecast. Not looking bad at all as we get that drier air in here. Here's a quick preview of the next seven days. Couple showers possible today with Francine around, but most of the rain is gone 86 tomorrow and then look at your morning temperatures. We do have some of that lower humidity. So our sixties will be back on the North shore seventies on the south shore. And so it'll feel at least pleasant if you don't have power the next few days, at least in the overnight hours, it won't be terribly muggy and our afternoons will be warm but not oppressive. So we can manage with the upper eighties and lower humidity. And more importantly, we have many, many days to dry things out, not only from Francine, bringing us heavy rain, but from the heavy rain we also saw last week guys. All right, Peyton. Thank you. Good to see that. Looking forward to that to seeing some uh sunshine, bright skies. I was gonna say I love when he pulls up that, that seven day because that just makes me feel a little bit at ease like, ok, you know, there is a tomorrow, there is gonna be sunshine. I know that's a song somewhere and um I just need uh seven. Is that what you call a depression song? No, just, no, just that's all I have to say.