Day three of the popular VooDoo Music and Art Festival in New Orleans was rained out Sunday, leaving fans and performers disappointed.

Rain water flooded the festival grounds as organizers cited "dangerous weather conditions, including forecasted persistent rain and flash flood warnings for Orleans Parish for Sunday" as the reason for the cancellation.

After a rainy Saturday night with performances by artists such as Ozzy Ozborne, day three was expected to be the pinnacle of the weekend featuring Deadmau5, Post Malone and many more. Festival participant Cynthea Corfah described the cancellation as devastating news when she saw the announcement on Twitter.

“It was supposed to be a rain or shine event,” Corfah said. “People had mentally prepared themselves that it was going to be wet, muddy and rainy, but it still wouldn’t matter. We just wanted to go.”

Corfah said she felt the rain added to experience and explained that seeing everyone in a Halloween costume made it more exciting. She also recalled there was only mud and no lightning that Saturday.

While refunds will be issued for the day, fans and performers took to twitter to find venues for artists to perform. Corfah said, day three performer Chance the Rapper was in the French Quarter watching a magic show.

“It looked like he didn’t know what he was going to do with himself,” Corfah said.

The festival cancellation isn’t the first problem with Louisiana weather this year. On Sept. 5 lightning strikes canceled the first LSU home football game since World War I.

Baton Rouge streets also flooded from excess rainfall on Oct. 25, leaving students stranded from their homes and parked cars sitting in in the flood water.

LSU student Austin Hebert said he went to get groceries that night and found that some of the streets had been blocked off by police. Determined to get home, Hebert found a gravel side road he thought would bring him around the blockages.

“What I thought was a small puddle when I went to turn in was actually a ditch,” Hebert said. “I ended up putting my car right in the middle of it. My back tire was three feet off the ground, and I had to wait six hours in the rain for a tow truck to come and pull me out. It happened to be in a cow pasture, so it smelled like cow poop.”

Fox 8 New Orleans meteorologist Bruce Katz said the weather this fall is different from other years as there has been major climate change.

“The first game that was a rained out from a lightning event was an anomaly,” Katz said. That was just afternoon and evening thunderstorms near the stadium. Over the summer, we developed a strong El Niño pattern.”

Defined as the above-average warming of Pacific Ocean sea surface temperatures and atmospheric conditions that change the places where storms go, El Niño has already had a great effect on the climate in Louisiana.

“El Niño is great in the summer for hurricanes because it creates a jetstream wind that potentially shears off the top of any hurricanes trying to develop,” Katz said. “But as you get into the fall and the winter months, it's more of a nuisance where you can get a lot of rain.”

This strong El Niño pattern will give Louisiana systems every three to five days and it can last for up to an entire year, bringing a great deal of rainfall.

A Category 5 hurricane named Patricia made landfall along the coast of Mexico on Oct. 23 and caused an estimated $283.2 million in damages. Remnants of the storm also caused a drastic change in weather in the U.S.

“As Patricia weakened when it made it over land, the moisture still moved over Texas and Mexico inland and affected us,” Katz said. “It created a lot of moisture that just sat over Louisiana for two and a half days. When the remnants of Patricia came in two weeks ago, we had a lot of wind and rain with it because it was part of a tropical system with still some rotation. It also developed little lull in the gulf that merged with remnants of Patricia, which led to the weather being so bad.”

The weather also has a direct correlation with what LSU facility services must do on a day-to-day basis. Assistant Director of LSU Facility Services Tammy Millican said preparing for the weather is a group effort.

“When we have heavy rain, roof leaks and sometimes some flooding affect some of the buildings on campus. We’ll come out and make sure the drains are clean, and that there is no water accumulation,” Millican said. “We have a campus that has buildings that were built way back in the 1930s. We know there are some buildings we have to watch, so it’s part of our normal routine to deal with weather issues.”

With the recent cuts in funding, Millican said custodians are covering more square feet because of reductions in staff over the last couple years.

“We haven’t received deferred maintenance dollars from the state since 2008, so some of the things we like to do we have to sometime put on hold and address emergency situations of critical issues first,” Millican said. “This is Louisiana. We know the weather changes all the time, so we just have to be prepared for those conditions and be able to respond quickly. We are just trying to do more with less.”