National Weather Service forecast for Morgan City for Wednesday
Morgan City will experience thunderstorms and showers, mostly after 3 p.m., with rainfall estimated between 0.5 inches to 0.75 inches, according to the National Weather Service.
There is the potential for small size hail.
Wednesday’s high will be around 75 degrees, and the area will experience a southeast wind reaching 5 to 10 mph.
The rain chance is 50% Wednesday evening, with mainly cloudy weather. The low Wednesday evening is about 66, with about a 5 mph south wind.
Meanwhile, the Atchafalaya River in Morgan City jumped almost a foot in the last 24 hours from 6.27 Tuesday at 8 a.m. to 6.99 feet as of 8 a.m. Wednesday morning, according to the National Weather Service’s Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Service. However, the river is forecast to drop until 6.2 feet by 1 p.m. Wednesday and then fall again later in the week to 6.2 feet by Saturday evening.