Heavy Rainfall Threat for Southern Plains and Mississippi Valley; Mild Temperatures for the East

Widespread showers and thunderstorms with the risk for flash flooding from the Southern Plains to the Mississippi Valley develops on Tuesday. Moisture tracking into the Pacific Northwest will bring heavy lower elevation/coastal rain and mountain snow. Meanwhile, unseasonably warm temperatures continue for the eastern two-thirds of the country.
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Last Update: 954 PM CST Mon Feb 6 2023

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New Orleans/Baton Rouge, LA Local Forecast Office

31NM S Pascagoula MS

Marine Zone Forecast

Synopsis: Cautionary headlines will begin for the outer Gulf waters tonight and extend into the day on Tuesday as winds increase out of the southeast ahead of the next system. A low pressure system will begin to approach from the west late Wednesday and into Thursday bringing increased winds and thunderstorm chances which may warrant expansion of cautionary headlines to all of the coastal waters in the forecast area. Winds then weaken and become more oriented offshore behind the cold front by the end of the week.

Rest Of Tonight

Southeast winds 10 to 15 knots. Seas 2 to 3 feet.

Tuesday

Southeast winds 10 to 15 knots. Seas 2 to 4 feet, occasionally to 5 feet. A chance of showers.

Tuesday Night

Southeast winds around 10 knots. Seas 2 to 4 feet, occasionally to 5 feet. A chance of showers. Patchy dense fog. A slight chance of thunderstorms after midnight. Visibility 1 nm or less.

Wednesday

Southeast winds 10 to 15 knots. Seas 3 to 4 feet, occasionally to 5 feet. A slight chance of thunderstorms. A slight chance of showers in the morning, then a chance of showers in the afternoon.

Wednesday Night

South winds 15 to 20 knots. Seas 4 to 6 feet, occasionally to 8 feet. A chance of thunderstorms. A chance of showers in the evening, then showers likely after midnight.

Thursday

Southwest winds 10 to 15 knots with gusts up to 20 knots, diminishing to 5 to 10 knots in the afternoon. Seas 3 to 5 feet, occasionally to 6 feet. A chance of thunderstorms. Showers likely, mainly in the morning.

Thursday Night

West winds 5 to 10 knots, becoming northwest 10 to 15 knots after midnight. Seas 2 to 3 feet. A chance of thunderstorms. A chance of showers.

Friday

Northwest winds 15 to 20 knots. Seas 2 to 4 feet, occasionally to 5 feet. A slight chance of showers in the morning.

Friday Night

Northwest winds 15 to 20 knots. Seas 2 to 4 feet, occasionally to 5 feet.

Saturday

North winds 15 to 20 knots. Seas 2 to 4 feet, occasionally to 5 feet.

Saturday Night

Northeast winds 10 to 15 knots. Seas 2 to 3 feet. winds and seas higher in and near thunderstorms.

Winds and seas higher in and near thunderstorms.