There have been more than a few weather curveballs recently.
According to LSU Health Climatologist, Barry Keim, unpredictability has been predictable.
"It started back in 1992 when every model said things would be relatively quiet, and they were, until Hurricane Andrew late in the season."
He points to Hurricane Zeta in late October in 2020 as well.
Parts of the state had the first ever blizzard warning in January of this year.
Throw in record drought 2023, and you see the hits just keep on coming.
But, on the scale of "we've never seen that", Fat Tuesday's forecast was a head scratcher.
So where did the high winds come from?
Keim has the one and only model with the track.
"It was an upper level cyclone displaced from the Midwest that pulled our way and mixed with a low pressure system in the area."
That answers where the winds came from geographically, but it is a little harder to answer the broader question of where did any of this wildly different weather come from.
Keim says he's only got a few theories right now.
"Could it be climate change? Maybe. Or is it just a series of events that if we look back we may find the same occurrence?"
Keim added that no matter where you hang your hat on the answer to that question, we should brace ourselves for an active storm season ahead and for us to expect the unexpected at any time.
