Lighter east wind. With that east wind, very muggy from atlantic moisture. 78 sebring, good morning to you. I have 79 leesburg. 81 now in clearwater and 79 in sarasota. Fewer clouds to start out the day but hints of some shallow low cloud cover. Not lasting long. Radar is quiet because every wind arrows light out of the east. Sprinkles give way to midday showers well inland. 9 00, look at the heat. 84. Were going to hit 92 at 5 00 p. M. And that includes a 50 rain chance in the coastal areas. Chances for rain go down by the weekend and chances for where the rain starts first switches a little bit. Well discuss more detail coming up. Right now, heres vanessa who is tracking the roads. How is it going . Vanessa busier for sure. Well start out with the biggest slowdown due to a crash. This is carrying over from the last hour. Manatee county, two left lanes direction. Backups are pretty notable across the Manatee River so that bridge backed up from where the crash site it all the way to u.
Wind and rainfall to the region. Lets get to Chris Lambert for the latest. Its weakened quite a bit. As expected once the hurricane make landfall especially across mountainous terrain of mexico its a rain maker more than anything else. Theres plenty of moisture streaming into texas and throughout mexico. That be an issue over the next couple of day. Winds 50 miles per hour. The wind a moot point as it becomes more of rain maker and flood threat through mexico into texas. Texas already having issues this morning as some of this moisture getting combined with the front that stalled out across the air. Its a slow moving cold front almost stalled out. It will drift slowly to the south. You will hear about flooding rains over the next couple of days. There will be this remnant low that tries to generate off the gulf of mexico. That will continue to enhance the rain even into louisiana as we go through the rest of the weekend. Flash flooding in that part of the country certainly a possibilit
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