Good morning, candace. It has been one dry month. We have not had a drop of rain officially at tampa international. That can change for today. It wont be wet all day long but you have to plan around a few showers. Let me show you the rain moving through north of cedar key along floridas big bend. You can see the showers not making much progress inland but there is rain in the gulf of mexico and this is what were keying in on here during the course of the day. That rain is set to increase as it moves into the bay area and so rain chances will respond and increase through the afternoon up to around 40 . So more clouds today means temperatures about five degrees cooler than yesterday. So, for the Early Morning hours, i think right around the nature coast, we can see rain showers or sprinkles and during the afternoon, storms will start to build and focus over the inland spots, especially into polk day. Today, well have rain around. It wont be lasting all day long but there will be poshths
For his actions during that wrongway crash. The woman says Deputy Kotfila intentionally drove in front of the vehicle to prevent the wrongway driver from hitting her. Gas stations in florida will now be required to upgrade Safety Measures at gas pumps. Gas stations that dont comply with the new law could have pumps shut down. And we are following breaking news out of chicago this morning. Thats where three Police Officers were shot during a narcotics operation just before midnight when the Narcotics Team confronted the suspects. The suspects opened fire. One suspect was killed. The officers are expected to survive. All right, its 4 31. Lets check with leigh spann to find out more about our weather. This morning, still tracking some increasing fog or decreasing visibility, depending on how you put it. Because this is your visibility map. A lot of it is nice and clear. Fog and thats starting to spread inland around the sarasota area. Thats where im seeing the thickest fog at this point.
Overnight in the attic. Thankfully though, everybody is okay. And lots of eyes on this closing arguments in the hulk hogan sex tape trial. Terry gene bollea is suing gawker for 10000 million. The website published a a sex tape shohowing him with the ex wife of a tampabased radio personalty. We will have more local news in a few minutes but always important in the mornings, the weather leigh. Thats right. And its really not too bad this morning. We dont have the fog that we have had the past couple days but there are extra clouds and temperatures if anything are cooler than yesterday. I mean, still above average but its cooler. 57 in zephyrhills. 64 plant city. 64 clearwater. 68 in bradenton. 70 in tampa. And notice the extra clouds. You will see breaks in the clouds but more clouds thanan recently and look in the gulf of mexico, the rain extends all the way south of the panhandle today. Only a 20 chance of a stray shower or two. And despite the clouds, a warm high of 81, above average
You have to have a very specific wind direction to allow for st. Pete to fall back because obviously were surrounded by water on either side. In the peninsula. Temperatures this afternoon, how about 60s by 10 00 a. M. And mid and upper 70s to near 80 this afternoon. I think were in pretty good shape. Full sunshine, a few fair weather clouds this afternoon. But we cant hang on to this. Moisture on the way will increase our rain chances. Well talk about that coming up in the next hour. Not too many problems on the roads now. Corey dierdorff is checking out the veterans expressway for us. Hes heading northbound on the veterans expressway. No problems where he is. Just keep in mind ehrlich road under the veterans still closed for the next little while, open by 6 00 a. M. If not sooner for construction there. But traffic up to speed on the veterans expressway. We have one issue here, i4, eastbound exit ramp from i4 to state road 559 in the lakeland area. See the flashing lights. Theres some
Make or break day, especially for florida senator marco rubio. He is fighting to win his home state. The polls open at 7 00 this morning. A Hillsborough County deputy is being remembered as a hero. A witness who saw the wrongway crash who killed Deputy John Kotfila beliefs he was acting as a human shield to save her life. The officer rushed around me and one or two seconds after he passed me, he ended up hitting the car instead of me. The funeral for Deputy Kotfila is scheduled for friday. Well today polk countys a workshop. Sales on sunday. Right now in the county, you cant buy beer, wine or alcohol until noon but in the city of lakeland, you can buy alcohol on sunday before noon. Todays meeting will look at making things more consistent throughout the county. Leigh, looking at fog coming into the area . Yeah, we havent seen a lot on land at this point. But over the next two to three hour, were going to the see the fog develop. This is how far you can see. And right now, not too bad.