Question remains whether Baton Rouge roads will dry before Sunday night’s freezing temps

Forecasts remain mostly unchanged, with East Baton Rouge and surrounding parishes still under an extreme cold warning and winter storm watch from Winter Storm Fern.

But it is also unclear if the Capital Region’s current rainfall will have time to dry before freezing temperatures arrive Sunday evening, according to meteorologists with the National Weather Service’s station in Slidell.

Rain is expected to continue through Sunday, but it remains largely unlikely that Baton Rouge will fall below the “icing line” and see freezing rain, said NWS meteorologist Christian Bannan…

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