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Janeiro where the olympic flame is burning bright this morning. Today a local athlete competes for gold. A look at todays events and what athletes are saying on social media about the games just ahead. Im gayle guyardo. Im gene ramirez. Heres leigh with a check on the rain and flooding right now. It all goes back to the area of low pressure thats been stubborn sitting there since saturday and as the counterclockwise winds pull around it waves of rain coming off the gulf of mexico. Thats why the flood watch is going to continue at least through this evening for citrus hernando and pasco and points to the north because the ground is saturated so any rain is going to lead to quick localized flooding if not more significant like the one in pasco county. Zooming down here more rain coming down in pasco county. Now its not going to make much in roads farther inland. Kind of heading up towards the Hernando Beach into Hernando County and spring hill batch of heavy rain and light down pours hap
Have had a taste of fall. Lower humidity in even in our far southern areas, lower humidity as well. 84, a couple of clouds. The dry air extends from the surface to the atmosphere. This red color is dry air, especially the upper levels. The green and blue is the humid air and it is staying far away. This red color has spread all the way down everyone is getting a taste of what is to come in the fall. 85 in tampa. Its still warm its just a humidity makes it more comfortable. 84 lakeland. I expect the afternoon high to be 91. Humidity slowly increases through the day. Keeping rain chances 20 . 30 tomorrow. And we stay hot in the low 90s. Video showing how his kids had walked to the polk county bus stop. The father was worried sick telling us it was a dangerous accident waiting to happen. Now the school is making changes reporter at the beginning of this new school year this polk county parent reached out to us telling us that he was concerned for his childrens safety as they walked to the
Big story. We have Team Coverage of the storm this morning. Youre tracking the tropics. Lets start with lee. Leigh. In the last 2 minutes the information came in. It is Getting Better organized, the wind strength hasnt changed too much but you can see how big the sy these are the current advisers. The red shaded area from panama city toward the big band of florida, those are hurricane warnings. Inning this could feel Hurricane Force wind in 36 hours. Locally we had Tropical Storm warnings that actually now extend into our offshore water. That is that brandnew update. You will fill Tropical Storm force conditions. Within 36 hours that is the official meaning of what the warning is. In a tropical cents. I believe its going to be Even Stronger winds come in because look at the forecast. Still 65 Miles Per Hour winds moving north northeast at 14 Miles Per Hour. Its continuing to get a faster Forward Motion as it heads toward the big band of florida. P. M. Tonight 75 Miles Per Hour winds. C
And perhaps even some liquid beautiful. We need to the rain. It has been dry recently sell it would not hurt to get a few drops. A lot of folks are hoping that the rain holds off. We still have a 40 chance of the wet stuff as we work through this sunday. Right now we have rain to the west and a huge system that brought the rain and the flooding through the southeast is inching ever so much closer to us. Not a cold front that extra moisture and we could see extra moisture turning into rain by later today. Lets look at the temperatures now, as you start off on the senate morning, 69 in tampa and largo, 67 lutz and apollo keach, 66 myakka city, sebring and a warm start and we will be getting warmer later today. It looks as if we have the chance of showers especially in the afternoon. From noon through 4 00 should top out at 80 degrees. Will look at the forecast and try to timeout the showers coming up in 12 minutes. 24 hours ago we brought you breaking news of a wrong way crash that claim