The potential for snowfall on the Crescent City and the Red Stick next week is "looking increasingly possible," the National Weather Service in Slidell said Friday.

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — Louisiana is forecasted to have extremely cold weather next week with the chances of a winter storm trending upward again. Enjoy the next day of warmer weather because it will quickly become very cold.

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Waves of frigid air sweeping across the U.S., briefly hitting the ArkLaTex. Here's when North Louisiana is likely to receive a bit of snow next week.

Sunday morning will feel quite brisk as temperatures continue falling overnight. Sunday morning’s lows will be in the upper 30s. Winds will increase with northerly/northwesterly winds of cold air around 10-15 mph. Wind could gust up to 20 mph. Overall, Sunday will be cold, dry and breezy.

As of 7 a.m. the National Weather Service of New Orleans and Baton Rouge forecast the following lows and wind chills: In Shreveport, the low is forecast at 27 degrees. Lake Charles’ low is forecast at 29 degrees. Monday going into Tuesday saw 40-degree drops from Sunday highs in New Orleans and Baton Rouge.

Lafayette Parish School System officials announced Friday that all schools will be closed on Tuesday and Wednesday, based on the predicted drop in temperatures and the potential for wintry mix precipitation.

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We are going to get extremely cold next week," one forecaster said. "However it takes a lot to get winter weather down here on the Gulf Coast.”

BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — The Louisiana Department of Health confirmed the hypothermia death of a 65-year-old man Thursday afternoon. State health officials said the coroner confirmed the Rapides Parish’s man death as winter weather-related.

The National Weather Service in Shreveport said Tuesday afternoon, January 14, 2025 that there’s a 20-30 percent chance for the accumulation of winter precipitation across the Toledo Bend area of East Texas and West Louisiana, with a 10-20 percent chance of the same for the Arkansas-Louisiana border.

School closures are being announced in anticipation of next week's winter weather system; we have closures we know about here.