While Monday will remain dry and sunny, rain is expected to pour in force ... rains to continue one-to-two days after in the southern half of Louisiana. Grymes said he will be watching south ...

The National Weather Service forecast heavy rains and thunderstorms across the southeast through Thursday as Tropical Storm Francine moves north from Louisiana into southern Mississippi.

Sponsor Message "Heavy rains and hurricane-force winds are spreading inland across southern Louisiana.," the National Hurricane Center said in an afternoon update. "Now is the time to stay inside ...

Francine made landfall as a Category 2 hurricane around 4 p.m. in Terrebonne Parish, about 30 miles southwest of Morgan City, in southern Louisiana, forecasters at the National Hurricane Center said.

New Orleans and other areas along the Gulf Coast have had a lot of rain this spring ... from between one and three inches in most of Southern Louisiana. Metairie, just outside New Orleans ...

High temperatures are forecast to only reach the 40s across southern portions of Louisiana and Mississippi ... and freezing rain (rain that freezes into ice after falling to the surface).

Intensifying thunderstorms across the southern and eastern U.S. threatened to unleash dangerous weather conditions.