Less humid out the door tuesday. Plan on mostly to partly sunny sky tuesday afternoon with only a stray shower. Many areas stay dry with highs near 90. New this morning. A tampa destroyed by flames. This happened on east 12th avenue. Firefighters could see smoke and flames coming from the roof of the singlestory wood frame home when they arrived on scene. It took them nearly an hour to put out the fire. Fortunately. No one was hurt. The cause is still unknown. What was supposed to be a meetup to sell an item advertised online. Ended in now, the Sheriffs Office is searching for the killer. The buyer and seller agreed to meet outside this Family Dollar on combee road sunday night. Things went south when the supposed buyer tried to steal the item. When they ran off. The seller and their friend jeff morrow chased after them. Thats when the thief opened fire. 21yearold morrow was pronounced dead at the hospital. Thong detsouvanh owns the marathon gas station to the north of the family up af
That caribbean. Hurricane matthew is threatening to hit cuba. Is there a chance it will push north and hit florida. Here is the latest. Reporter there is a chance. Its not a huge probability write down but close for us to be able to say we will not be impacted. This is a potent storm. Heres the latest advisory. 150 mile wins. It is a category 4 storm. The intensity will change. It is basically going to impact across the big islands as a major hurricane with winds from 130 130 to 140 miles per it will get the eastern cuba and into jamaica. This will be devastating for them. It is lifethreatening not just because of the winds, they are going to be talking about feet of rainfall in haiti and cuba. Thursday or friday it will be in the bahamas. It is closed too close to model out yet. It is still way off. Keep checking back with we will be able to shrink that as we get a model additional model runs. For us, it looks good. That could change. Temperatures are in the midshipman to upper 70s. T
Since wilma back in 2005. It came ashore near st. Marks. If you dont know where that, i didnt, its around the panhandle. But even as it moves to the north and east its still going to affect us. This is the latest forecast. 50mileperhour winds in eastern georgia. Because it can still get some gulf moisture and atlantic moisture pulled into it it is going to keep its Tropical Storm status meaning it is going to keep that circulation and wind speed for hours. Here it is tonight in the charleston area. 50mileperhour winds. Tomorrow morning, 50mileper hour winds off the wilmington, North Carolina coast. Once it gets into the atlantic it loses its tropical characteristics but it also loses any steering current sought sits here monday, tuesday, wednesday, right off the midatlantic seaboard which is going to keep rough surf and some rain along the coastline alone. I do still think were seeing effects from it. There are the feeder bands back into the gulf of mexico. Again, a lot better than it
Leftover moisture from hermine. So just because its dry now, thats not to say it will be dry all day. More of a typical storm coverage at 4050 . Beach looks cloudy with high clouds. I want to encourage you to keep it on the sand and not in the water today. Radar looks quiet. What were seeing is a sign of what is to come. Moisture building on the near shore waters. Most of this 13 miles west stays offshore. By midday one or two of these could make bay. We are in the midtoupper 70s. We will warm up to 79 in tampa. Low 70s hanging on. Enjoy it. Bartow and arcadia. 73 and 74. Stalled front to the north. Moisture to the west. Gives way to interior storms this afternoon at 40 to 50 . On the back side of hermine, which is no longer tropical is drier air. That moves in to the early part of the week. We want to point out this system really is going to bring rough surf and strong winds to the coast. 65mileperhour winds. No longer tropical. Ill have the latest track coming up. Alcides all right.
Because of that, i would be inclined to think tomorrow, while there will still be heavy rains, not nearly as widespread as we had along coastal pinellas today. This is the updated track. Look at this. Way to the west. Look at the margin of error, the code of uncertainty. We are nowhere near that. At this point in time were looking even better now than we were yesterday in terms of a hurricane. But in the panhandle, theyre likely going to be seeing a hurricane moving on shore or the least a Strong Tropical Storm late tomorrow night or early on friday. Theres the spaghetti models. This is great. A ton of agreement for this. Not so much for the panhandle but for us. It will limit the threat of wind damage. Which we have been seeing all along. This is a rain event and a coastal flooding event because it has a large reach which means at high tide tomorrow, we will see more flooding around our coastal areas. In terms of the heavy prolonged heaviest. And its apulls away, it will take much of