NOAA: warmer, drier winter expected in the Baton Rouge area

According to NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center, southeast Louisiana and southwest Mississippi can expect warmer and drier than average weather this winter. The outlook comes from the agency’s annual long-term winter forecast, which was issued on Thursday.Typical winter highs and lows for the Baton Rouge area are about 64 and 43 degrees respectively—an average of temperatures from climatological winters (December through February) since 1930 at Metro Airport. Cold sn