Right now on news channel 8 at 6 00. An unpleasant surprise for two Home Invasion suspects, how the victim made sure those crooks wont be bothering anyone any time soon. Good evening, everyone. Im rod carter. Thanks so much for joining us tonight. Well begin with the expected to drench Pinellas County this week. Residents arent taking any chances. People traveled to the Community Park in st. Petersburg with their shovels and filled sand backs for free. This started at noon and about an hour later 150 bags had already been given out. We spoke with a man that says its better to be safe than sorry. I think its important just for peace of mind. Even if the weather doesnt hit, i still got a couple bags. A bit and i think its important to allow communities to prepare themselves. Sandbags will be available again tomorrow in st. Petersburg from 9 a. M. Until 5 p. M. The sandbags are limited to 20 bags per person. Just how much rain are we talking about . Lets go straight to storm team 8 meteor
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.
Strong, in upper levelsf atmosphere all out of a northerly direction which actually displaced a lot of strong convection overland. The actually center is out over water. Now as we go through the say next 12 to 24 hours, it looks like that wind sheer will start to lessen with as it works its way out over into the middle of the gulf of mexico. Which should allow this system to basically gain more strength and organize itself better. You can see strong convection the Actual Center is locate right in this area here. So were s that thunderstorm activity kind of regrouping around the center of this system. Now the Hurricane Hunter was out there early this morning flying in the system. They did not find Tropical Storm force winds. It was still maintained as a tropical depression. Heres the latest coordinates 23. 6 north. 84 west top winds right now at 35 miles an hour. Its moving to the west at 7 miles an hour. But as i said, its going to work its way into the middle of so by late tonight, in
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
Hes meeting with mexicos president ahead of a highly anticipated speech on immigration. Welcome. Im russell rhodes. Laura and im laura moody. More in a minute. First we want to bring you the latest on td nine. Dave we have a lot of heavy rain and so far, Pinellas County has seen the brunt of it this morning, although some is moving over the bridges. I can hear thunder or i have heard thunder outside the station here. I want to zoom in and its 6 00 in t people have to understand the sun is not up yet but look how hard it is raining with the thunderstorm just pouring onshore. And theyre right along 275 in Pinellas County going up through Pinellas Park so the Howard Frankland is getting some heavy rain. Now over the courtney campbell, up to the mid span portion of the courtney campbell, notice how you go back offshore and theres more rain just kind of waiting in the wings and i think this is what were in for, for you have some heavy rain. That will cause some ponding on the roads a then i