Good Saturday evening to you.
You know, we had quite a bit
of an active radar on the map,
especially earlier this afternoon
and through the evening hours.
Thankfully, we are smooth sailing
for the rest of the night.
Now I'm only keeping a 20% chance,
mainly along the coastline as some
spots could see an isolated spot shower
through the next couple of hours,
but many locations.
Not only is the thunderstorm
activity wrapping up,
but we're gradually saying goodbye
to some of that cloud cover as well.
That will actually help to continue to
clear overnight through tomorrow morning.
Now just how much rain did
some spots see just today?
So long we easily picked over an
inch to an inch and 1/2 between
parts of Pasco and Pinellas counties
down through southern Hillsborough.
There was even a little bit of an
isolated area between Riverview
and again near South Tampa,
where I saw radar estimated totals
pushing closer to that inch inch
and 1/2 threshold almost 2 inches
in locations near Dade City,
Zephyrhills again land O Lakes.
That was one of the heaviest
areas that saw not only rainfall
but even pea sized hail.
Out of those thunderstorms
earlier this evening.
Thankfully, all is well out of here now.
We had plenty of time to heat up
today before the rain even arrived.
We made it to 95 degrees in Tampa.
Normal for this time of year is 91,
and this is an indication of what's
to come over the next several days.
We're back into that summertime pattern,
so that means a lot of heat,
a lot of humidity then those
late day rain chances.
But things cleared up just in
time for things to kind of hang
out and wrap up over an armature.
Works right now.
Still popping place on a Saturday Night Live.
We're seeing temperatures
still in those lower 80s.
Feeling more like the mid 80s thinks
a little bit of that rain cooled air
and in some spots that rain cooled
air from earlier today actually helped
drop down those temperatures pretty
quickly from the 90s into the upper 70s.
And then we kind of just sat
there and that's what's going to
happen easily overnight.
As mentioned,
isolated coastal shower will
be possible in some spots,
but many locations are going to go
from mostly cloudy to partly cloudy
through the early overnight hours
by sunrise tomorrow morning when
you get ready to head out the door,
it is going to be a sunny and a little
comfortable one slightly on the wild.
Right.
But at least on the comfortable
side in many locations,
very dry on the radar,
a lot of us waking up in those mid to
upper 70s back into the lower to mid 90s,
we go with through tomorrow
afternoon and again it's going
to be because we're going to have
plenty of time to heat things up.
So this model is just a little bit behind.
A lot of this rain has actually already
moved off the Gulf Coast and weekend.
So overnight through tomorrow morning,
the cloud coverage is going to
be a little bit more limited to
slightly on the partly cloudy side,
but plenty of comfortable
and clear conditions by two.
3:00 o'clock in the afternoon,
we'll start to see some isolated
showers bubble up near the coastline,
but focus your attention inland.
That's what we're actually going to see.
Those scattered showers and storms
kind of bubble up and then collide with
our sea breeze boundaries colliding
through the middle of the state.
They start to get a little heavier right
along that I-75 corridor especially,
we get close to six 7:00 o'clock in
the evening. That sounds familiar.
That timing interrupting a few of
those dinner plans with some of that
activity pushing out of the Bay as we go
through the 8-9 o'clock hour as well.
So it will be through tomorrow evening.
And even late at that evening,
you'll see those showers and
storms moving offshore,
but then quieting down overnight
before we rinse and repeat the
same cycle going into your Monday.
So this is a cycle that takes
us right back into that typical
pattern for this time of year,
and that will continue even
through the next couple of days.
Quick update on the tropics.
We've been keeping a close eye
on potential tropical Cyclone 4.
This is the last advisory that just came
in from the National Hurricane Center.
It's already moved over land in the
far northeastern corner of Mexico.
There, no further development is possible.
This is going to be more of
a rainmaker for South Texas.
As far as the rest of the
tropics are concerned,
there's one more way that we're
watching 20% chance of development
of far Eastern Atlantic.
No concern for us at this moment,
but of course we're your hurricane
headquarters and we'll be giving you updated
as hurricane season churns on here at home.
Stuck in that summer time pattern.
Lots of heat humidity through
the first half of the day,
and then those rain chances
late in the afternoon.
Early evening through that 7 day forecast.