Rain, cold fronts made Baton Rouge summer more bearable

Baton Rouge had a couple of things that made this summer a bit more bearable than last year: rain and early cold fronts.

"For a good bulk of the summer, we ran above average in rainfall" and that cooled things down, said Hannah Lisney, a National Weather Service meteorologist.

In recent weeks, cold fronts made their appearance in the region, too, bringing increased cloud cover and lower humidity, she said.

While most of those fronts stalled north of Baton Rouge, Lisney said a cold front that made it all the way through the Capital Area this weekend brought the lowest temperature of the summer Sunday night - 66.

"For this time of year, that's pretty crazy, but we'll take it," she said.

The summer of 2024 was a scorcher, with three heat warnings -- issued when high temperatures pose an