Important messages from the National Weather Service (NWS):

• Winter weather advisory in effect through Tuesday afternoon across deep east Texas and north Louisiana.

• Greatest snowfall accumulations in those areas should be one inch or less.

• Cold temperatures continuing through the middle of the upcoming work week.

Current Forecast:

• Cold temperatures area wide through Tuesday with a  cold weather advisory for our area with the wind chills in teens until 9 a.m. Tuesday.

• Winter Weather advisory is changed from north of the current advisory to parishes just beneath Bossier and Caddo until Tuesday 6 p.m.

• Freeze warning not yet issued but will probably be in effect Tuesday night.

• Freezing nighttime cold temps and the high temp on Tuesday at 35 degrees will only be brief. The NWS still not sure how long will track below freezing.

• Precipitation that falls in our area should be all snow forecast to be one inch or less. Forecast may not be enough for accumulations and should be ending in our region by 6 p.m. Tuesday.

• Expect dry snow and the worst case scenario is one inch for our area, but NWS doesn’t expect that to happen. We will see dry snow with no impacts expected according to the NWS.  

• Expect light snow with Tuesday flurries south of  I-20 with the most impacts from moderate to heavy snow ranging from deep East Texas and north central Louisiana.      

Temperatures forecast as follows:

• Low temps: Tuesday 24 degrees F; Wednesday 18 degrees F; Thursday 25 degrees F; Friday 27 degrees F.

• High temps: Tuesday 35 degrees F; Wednesday 43 degrees F; Thursday 51 degrees F; Friday 56 degrees F.