Winter storm in Louisiana February 15, 2021 photo by Brooke Thorington
The winter storm allowed for new record low temperatures to be set. National Weather Service Shreveport Meteorologist C.S. Ross said the mercury in Shreveport dropped to one degree today. The previous record low was 20 degrees for February 16th.
“Shreveport has not been this low temperature since 1930, some 89 years ago,” said Ross.
Ross said Monroe also set a record low temp this morning at 16 degrees this morning, the previous record was 25 degrees for the day and Lake Charles set a new low with 16 degrees.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like temps will get above freezing for the area and help melt any of the frozen precipitation.
By late this evening Ross said sleet and snow will sweep across north Louisiana bringing another round of dicey weather for the area.
“Unfortunately, there appears to be a better chance of freezing rain with this event that may result in power disruptions and tree limb and tree problems,” said Ross.
While the majority of power outages Monday and Tuesday were in the southern part of the state due to ice and sleet, Ross said this second round of winter weather could create outages in north Louisiana.
“Pay attention to the weather especially for this next event coming up Wednesday into Thursday morning. It has a chance to produce power outages with the freezing rain developing,” said Ross.
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