Louisiana
FIRST ALERT: Extreme cold and dangerous wind chills in South Louisiana
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) – Extreme cold and dangerous wind chills have settled into South Louisiana following this weekend’s winter storm.
EXTREME COLD WARNING
An Extreme Cold Warning remains in effect through Tuesday at noon. Temperatures are expected to stay in the teens and 20s, with wind chills in the teens and possibly single digits, both this morning and again Tuesday morning.
Take action now to protect people, pets, pipes, and plants. Keep in mind that home fires are more common during winter due to increased use of fireplaces and portable heaters. Always follow recommended safety precautions when heating your home.
TODAY’S COLD FORECAST
After a frigid start with widespread hard freeze conditions, temperatures will only recover to the upper 30s this afternoon. A persistent northerly breeze will keep conditions feeling bitterly cold all day.
Wind chill values will struggle to rise out of the teens until late morning, only reaching the low 30s this afternoon. It will remain dangerously cold all day long.
Temperatures will fall back below freezing quickly after sunset, leading to another widespread hard freeze overnight into Tuesday morning.
DANGEROUS COLD TUESDAY MORNING
Overnight temperatures into Tuesday morning are expected to drop into the teens across much of South Louisiana, with 20s closer to the coast. Combined with winds, feels-like temperatures will be even colder, resulting in another morning of extreme cold and hard freeze conditions.
MORE FREEZING MORNINGS
Expect several more mornings below freezing this week. Temperatures moderate slightly by Friday, but another strong cold front arrives late Friday into Saturday, bringing another round of very cold air and potential hard freeze conditions.
EXTENDED FORECAST
Dangerous cold remains in place through Tuesday, followed by continued below-normal temperatures for the rest of the week. Another surge of colder air returns heading into the weekend, keeping freezing mornings in the forecast.
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That pageant feeds into the Miss Louisiana pageant, which is part of the Miss America system. The winner of Miss Louisiana Saturday night will move on to the Miss America pageant.
Addison’s pageant platform is encouraging girls to build confidence in themselves — Confidence to Career, Jackson said.
“She competed last night for the preliminary in talent and on stage question and will compete tonight in beauty and fitness,” Jackson said.
On Saturday at the beginning of the pageant, the field will be cut to 11 contestants, and then the top five.
“One of the top five will get a crown,” Jackson said.
The preliminary competitions and the pageant will be streamed on MissLouisiana.com and the Saturday pageant will be broadcast live on KNOE-TV.
“They let me see her for five minutes yesterday,” she said. “This is the experience of a lifetime. She is making friendships and relationships that will last a lifetime. We are so proud of her. Addison is such a sweet girl.”
She is the youngest of three sisters, Allison and Anna Claire Jackson.
Angela said her husband, Craig Jackson, is particularly excited and proud of all three of his daughters.
“He’s a great girl dad,” she said. “They think he hung the moon, and he did.”
Louisiana
After redistricting battles, Southern gathers for Juneteenth celebration: ‘Continue the fight’
Hundreds of community members, alumni and students gathered Thursday to observe Juneteenth on the Southern University campus in Baton Rouge.
The theme of the festivities was “celebrating freedom through culture and community,” but weeks after Louisiana’s bitter redistricting battles, the speakers Thursday morning had one message driving their remarks: Get out and vote.
“Freedom does not come in on the wheels of inevitability,” Louisiana Supreme Court Associate Justice John Michael Guidry said to the crowd. “But it takes the prodigious work and the tireless efforts of those who are willing to continue the fight.”
Great Beginnings summer camper Myni, 4, gets a hello kitty face painting during Southern’s Juneteenth celebration on Thursday, June 18, 2026 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Staff photo by Michael Johnson
The speech kicked off a day of discussions and cultural events centered on the holiday of Juneteenth, which commemorates June 19, 1865, when Union Gen. Gordon Granger brought news of emancipation to enslaved people in Texas more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued.
Speakers at Southern emphasized the need for protection of hard-won rights for Black Americans in the context of redistricting. The sentiments followed a contentious state legislative session that ended with the elimination of one of Louisiana’s two majority-Black congressional districts after the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Louisiana v. Callais.
“That Voting Rights Act is under attack,” Guidry said. “There’s voter intimidation, there’s voter suppression, there are voter ID laws and all types of laws and legal decisions that are trying to deny us our right to vote, and we are the ones who have to go forward and litigate these issues.”
The day opened with a libation ceremony and a rendition of “Lift Every Voice and Sing” by Southern University student Claire Floyd.
Southern University alumnus Jeanet Cazenave said she felt it was important to celebrate Juneteenth on campus as not only a relative of the first dean of Southern University but also a descendant of the GU272, a group of enslaved individuals who were sold to plantations in Louisiana in 1838 by Jesuit priests to pay the debts of what is now Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.
Juneteenth “means everything,” Cazenave said. “It means the past, the present and the future.”
BATON ROUGE, La. (KLFY) — Governor Landry has officially declared Louisiana under state of emergency.
The state emergency declaration covers Avoyelles, Lafourche, Pointe Coupee, St. Landry, St. Tammany and Terrebonne parishes.
The declaration was issued Thursday following the impacts of Tropical Storm Arthur, which brough rainfall and strong storms to parts of the state on June 17 and 18.
Officials said the National Weather Service has confirmed three tornadoes tied to the storm system.
Officials also reported record or near-record rainfall totals in Avoyelles and Pointe Coupee parishes over a 12-hour period.
The order allows the Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness to coordinate resources and provide assistance to local governments if needed.
Certain state purchasing and bidding requirements have been temporarily suspended to speed up emergency response efforts.
The declaration took effect immediately and will remain in place through July 18 unless it is lifted or extended.
State officials are urging residents to stay weather aware, avoid flooded roadways and follow guidance from local emergency managers.
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