Lots of tropical moisture will continue to get funneled toward Acadiana as an upper low in Texas in conjunction with an area of disturbed weather in the Gulf of Mexico will keep us cloudy and wet. There will be a heavy rain/flood threat over the next few days but pinpointing who will get the worst of it will remain a quagmire. I looked closely at buoy, ship and offshore platform data and Quickscat satellite estimates and they all point to some surface troughing in the Western Gulf, but no closed low pressure. The pressures have remained fairly high and upper level winds remain hostile to tropical development. If this feature persists offshore through Saturday then we may be looking at it more closely. So the bottom line for now is that expect several waves of shower and thunderstorm activity with high rainfall chances over the next several days. Rainfall amounts through Sunday will likely total 2-3 inches in most sports with isolated totals likely to exceed 5-6 inches. The best bet for a potential flooding rain event would be back into Texas closer to the upper low, but as long as remain in the deep tropical plume of moisture we could see locally very rains from time to time at least through Saturday. I’m keeping rain chances high into early next week as even though the upper low should retrogress to the west with time, the tropical moisture will remain locked in. In addition, there may be a weak backdoor front trying to come in for early next week which may keep us rather wet until mid-week. Thereafter higher pressure and more stable air should move in lowering our rain chances and upping the temperatures back into the 90s for later next week.