Louisiana’s been dealing with near record high temperatures in some cases and the National Weather Service says the warm air is bringing in the next big storm system mid-weekend. Emelie Gunn reports…:
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Crawfish season is underway and early reports say the mudbugs are bigger than normal and you can thank this weather. Emelie Gunn reports…:
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Louisiana’s been dealing with near record high temperatures in some cases and the National Weather Service says the warm air is bringing in the next big storm system mid-weekend. Jason Hansford with the National Weather Service in Shreveport says it’s hard to believe we’re in December when you look at the forecast these days…:
Hansford says there is a marginal risk for severe weather moving across the state starting Saturday evening in some areas then into Sunday with showers and thunderstorms increasing. He says there’s a large disturbance moving across the southern plains on Sunday, which has opened up the Gulf of Mexico bringing these warm and humid conditions…:
Hansford says the system will clear out to start the work week and temperatures will cool off but only slightly. He says the squall line moving through the state Saturday evening into Sunday brings with it a damaging wind threat and the potential for isolated flash flooding…:
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Crawfish season is underway and early reports say the mudbugs are much bigger than normal for this time of year . Scott Landry, spokesman for Seafood Palace in Lake Charles, believes there are a couple of reasons crawfish are so big so early in the season…
He says the weather and water conditions are making the early crawfish season so favorable. Landry says the crawfish, so far this season, are larger than they have been in several years. He says they look like an early spring crawfish…
He says if the weather keeps up, it will be a great crawfish season. Landry expects business to be good this season because people love a bigger sized crawfish…
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Construction of the equipment needed to dispose of 16 million pounds of M6 propellant stored at Camp Minden in Webster Parish continues. The process to dispose of the explosives will begin next year. LSU-Shreveport Chemistry professor Brian Salvatore toured the construction site Thursday. Salvatore says about 90-percent of everything needed to conduct the contained burn are on site…
He says the contained burn chamber was loaded on a truck this week. Salvatore says the chamber will travel to Louisiana through the river system and be unloaded at the port of Nachitoches…
He says they expect the disposal to be complete in January of 2017. Salvatore says the assembly of the contained burn chamber will be complete in January with test burns starting in February…
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Former Louisiana Tech president Dan Reneau has been named interim president of the University of Louisiana System. Reneau will serve as president until the board finds a permanent replacement for Sandra Woodley, who is resigning as president at the end of the year. Reneau served as president of Louisiana Tech for 26 years before retiring in 2013…:
The UL System Board says they are thrilled to have Dr. Reneau lead the system during the time of transition as his vast experience made him the ideal candidate for the job. Reneau joined the faculty at Tech in 1967 as an assistant professor of chemical engineering…:
Woodley will stay on in an advisory role through March 15th. Reneau says he’s honored to have been asked to help out on a temporary basis…:
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