Summer officially begins today, and if you're hoping the season will go easy on us this year, you're out of luck.
New Orleans is always hot and humid in the summer, but does it have to be hotter?
"At this time, probabilities are for above-normal temperatures, and near-to above-normal precipitation," said National Weather Service meteorologist Bob Wagner.
"If you get plenty of sunshine during the morning, early afternoon, you can certainly get up into the lower to middle 90s, and then you get afternoon thunderstorms that eventually cut off the heating and provide some rain," Wagner said.
Essentially, it boils down to more of the same.
