It’s officially fall but it sure still feels like summer in Louisiana. Highs Sunday reached into the 90s, but State Climatologist Barry Keim says we should start to see autumn-like temperatures this weekend.
He says the fall-like weather is arriving late for Louisiana, usually by mid-September we would have experienced our first drop in temperatures signifying that autumn has arrived.
And now that it’s October we’ve entered the final two months of the 2023 hurricane season and so far, it’s been a quiet one for Louisiana. But state Keim says we are not out of the woods yet…
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This year there have been 18 named storms, which means it has been an above-average season.
Tonight’s Powerball jackpot is a staggering $1.04 billion with a cash value of $478 million, making it the fourth largest in the game’s history. Lottery Spokesperson Dustin Annison says sales normally pick up when there’s a jackpot of this size because of people’s curiosity and excitement.
After more than three decades in the making, the Louisiana Civil Rights Museum opens Sunday inside the New Orleans Convention Center. Lt. Governor Billy Nungesser says the exhibit will be the first in the state honoring heroes of the Civil Rights Movement and the ‘dream cube’ will certainly bring the wow factor to the museum.
The two-million-dollar exhibit is five thousand square feet.