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Last Map Update: Thu, May 29, 2025 at 3:06:35 pm CDT

Severe Weather - Thursday
Excessive Rainfall - Thursday
Severe Weather - Friday
Next Seven Days
An upper level disturbance will combine with an expected moist and unstable air mass to produce a marginal risk of severe thunderstorms.
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Clusters of showers and thunderstorms that form for the remainder of this afternoon and evening will have the potential to produce high rain rates of one to three inches in a short period of time across lower Acadiana and the lower Atchafalaya Basin.
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There is a Marginal Risk (level 1 out of 5) or between a 5 and 14 percent chance of seeing severe weather, as a frontal system moves south into a moist and unstable air mass. Damaging winds and large hail will be the main concerns with any storms that develop.
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A chance for showers and thunderstorms on Friday before drier air moves in over the weekend. A more typical summertime pattern will set up by mid week with hot and humid conditions along with a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon.
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Pineville
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