Summer officially ends this week, but Mother Nature doesn't seem to be on board.
"A hot, sunny and mainly dry week is ahead of us," WWL TV Meteorologist Payton Malone forecasts.
He says one the first day of fall, high temperatures will be around 95 degrees, close to record territory.
"By midweek, temperatures will be soaring to lower and middle 90s in the afternoons."
Autumn officially arrives on Thursday.
Meanwhile, there are still no threats to Louisiana in the tropics.
"Fiona is a Category 1 hurricane over eastern Dominican Republic and western Puerto Rico producing catastrophic flooding over Puerto Rico," Malone says.
The forecast calls for Fiona to move northward and stay away from the Gulf of Mexico.
"Fiona will curve north away from Dominican Republic on Monday and Tuesday likely as a strengthening hurricane. It could even achieve Category 3 status by Tuesday as it heads north over the western Atlantic around a ridge of high pressure. If it reaches Category 3 with winds of 111-129 mph, it would be the first major hurricane of the Atlantic season."
He says elsewhere in the tropics, there is nothing we need to worry about now.
"There are no tropical threats to southeast Louisiana and the Gulf Coast for the next seven days."
Detailed Forecast...
TODAY:
Partly cloudy. 10% chance stray showers. Hot, humid. Low: S 75, N 70. High: 91.
TUESDAY:
Mostly sunny. Hot, little less humid. Dry. Low: S 75, N 71. High: 92.
WEDNESDAY:
Mostly sunny. Hot, little less humid. Dry. Low: S 75, N 72. High: 94.
THURSDAY:
Mostly sunny. Hot, little more humid. Dry. Low: S 77, N 71. High: 95.
FRIDAY:
Mostly sunny. Hot, little more humid. Dry. Low: S 77, N 70. High: 91.
SATURDAY:
Mostly sunny. Hot, little less humid. Dry. Low: S 72, N 67. High: 90.
SUNDAY:
Mostly sunny. Hot, little less humid. Dry. Low: S 73, N 68. High: 90.
