Rob Perillo

Scattered, mainly afternoon showers and storms, are expected for Acadiana through the entire holiday weekend into early next week. Tropical moisture will continue to funnel westward across the Northern Gulf Coast and will be interacting with a nearly stationary trough of low pressure that's draped into Louisiana.

Showers and thunderstorms will return to the Acadiana area by Wednesday afternoon as tropical moisture surges in from the east accompanied by a weak inverted trough of low pressure. This feature will be similar to a hybrid tropical wave (wave and storms moving from east to west)...and there could be a few strong cells capable of producing strong and gusty winds accompanied by localized torrential downpours.

The chance of showers and thunderstorms will increase for Acadiana mid-week with the risk of scattered, primarily daytime showers and storms to stay through the July 4th Weekend. Before the higher rain chances return, Tuesday will be another hot and humid day with temperatures topping out in the low-mid 90s accompanied by heat indices in the 100-105° range...those heat index values could go higher near bodies of water (and in/near lingering flood waters (to the north)).