After reaching 90° for the first time this year, temperatures will scale back as a few disturbances swing through. This will only be temporary - the warmth surges back into the area over the weekend.

Tonight & Tomorrow: Although we keep mostly clear skies for the first few hours of the evening, clouds will be on the increase into Thursday morning. We’ll wake up to cloudy skies on early Thursday, with warmer overnight lows. Temperatures will bottom out near 70° in the capital city. A few patches of fog are possible, although a slight southeasterly breeze appears just strong enough to alleviate fog concerns.

More clouds will be with us on Thursday. That will help bring highs back into the middle-80s. A weak disturbance will bring isolated to widely scattered showers and storms to the region. Rain chances increase closer to lunchtime, lasting into the afternoon. It will be a good idea to have the rain gear on hand. Even so, know that it will not be raining at every point. Some spots might even dodge rain entirely.

Up Next: An additional disturbance arrives on Friday, bringing another shot at showers and storms. Rain chances peak during the morning this time. Lingering storms are possible during the afternoon, but this activity will be closely tied to how the morning unfolds. For instance, a stormier morning would stabilize our atmosphere and prevent the afternoon round.

Cloud cover and rain will hold temperatures back for yet another day on Friday. However, all bets are off thereafter. Highs return to the upper-80s over the weekend and nudge upward into the low-90s next week. There will be plenty of humidity to go around, with limited rain chances also.

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BATON ROUGE — A handful of intervenors in the battle over Louisiana's proposed congressional map filed a notice of appeal Wednesday after a three-judge panel tossed out a plan that would have established a second minority-majority district extending from Shreveport to Baton Rouge.

Judges on Tuesday rejected the map, saying Louisiana lawmakers relied too heavily on racial considerations when drawing up new boundaries to use in this year's congressional elections. A dissenting judge said there were enough non-racial reasons to accept the map.

The notice of appeal was filed for nine individuals along with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the Power Coalition for Equity and Justice.

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Baker Murrill said Tuesday that the state will "of course" appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.

The Secretary of State's office said it must have the new map in hand by May 15 so there is enough time to line up voters for the Nov. 5 general election. The candidate filing period is July 17-19.

The map rejected Tuesday is the second one turned down in the federal court system. U.S. District Judge Shelley Dick previously threw out a map that didn't have a second minority-majority district in Louisiana. She said that a third of Louisiana's congressional districts should be minority-majority because about a third of the state's population is Black.

The latest map, adopted this year in a special legislative session, addressed that imbalance, but two of the three judges said race was too much of a factor. The map was extremely similar to a 1993 map that had been rejected.

Federal law prohibits racial gerrymandering. 

In a dissent, Circuit Judge Carl Stewart said there were enough political reasons to approve the maps, including the stated objective of protecting House Speaker Mike Johnson and Majority Leader Steve Scalise.

According to an arrest warrant, Mott was involved in a gun battle at the Kangaroo Express on Scotland Avenue that killed 51-year-old Michael Thomas. After shooting Thomas in the back, officers said Mott continued to shoot "aimlessly" in the victim's direction. Police said one of the stray bullets hit a woman in her second-floor residence nearby, where she and her children were asleep in bed.

The following day, Mott went to the 19th JDC and pleaded guilty to domestic abuse and battery to a pregnant victim. An initial report says on Aug. 21, 2023, Mott pulled a woman by her hair, spit on her, pointed a gun to her head and threatened to kill her—while knowing she was seven months pregnant. 

He was sentenced to three years in prison, which were suspended by Judge Fred Crifasi. He was ordered to stay on supervised probation for the three years starting Feb. 23, 2024. His probation required that he not have a gun. 

After being taken in by law enforcement, Mott was booked for first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, and illegal use of a firearm.