News channel 8. Im gayle guy yard o. And im gene ramirez. The bucs are hitting the field one more time before a pre season game. Lets check on the rain we are seeing. They actually had to go into tropicana field because of all of the rain at one buc place so hopefully get dryer air today but not much. The fl 8 00 p. M. Obviously its water logged at this point so any amount of rain could lead to quick street flooding and expected to see the heavy rain coming on shore any minute. You can see this heavy down pour, hudson, Newport Richey and even a half hour to an hour in hernando and citrus county. This is on top of 48 hours of on and off heavy rain. Most of the heaviest down pours thankfully have been off shore but they have snuck on shore anywhere from five to seven inches along the coast where that flood watch is. The fartherland you go the lighter the rain totals have been. You havent seen inches of rain. A lot more spotty south of i4. Heavy pockets but not as wide spread. Todara morn
Weather with leigh. Good morning. It looks like another rainch rainchrainy dreary day. Today should be the last of the intense wet days. Flood watch continues until 8 00 p. M. And all the way up through the big bend of florida soap the rain potential starts going farther north and more than our fair share of rain. Four to six inches. Farther to the south Pinellas County four and a half to five inches of rain fall especially in the northern. Lighter totals inland and even lighter farther south. So again this is what weve been tracking for the last couple of days. Hillsborough just about an hour ago certainly weaker towards 301 in has her hills. Another watch of this heavy rain coming on shore and thats going to be the trend all day. Off and on heavy down pours. Rain chances to 60 at 10 00 this morning. Best rain chance attained day 70 americas before it tapers off this evening. Keeping high today below average at 5 05. Meredith is get through your commute which hopefully isnt too wet. S
Causing problems with flooding and we may be in with more tomorrow. Steve jerve joins us in the forecast. Some areas got up to 6 areas, plus. Thats obviously causing some local flooding, additional rainfall would lead to further flooding in those areas. Lets take a look at radar at the home. You can see the showers continue to fall around portions of the bay area. Although most folks getting a break at the moment, those folks up north but a few breakout showers west of dade city, seeing a few showers. Mostly light to moderate activity but a heavy shower passing the south part of lakeland at this point. Farther south offshore rain. Inland around arcadia a few showers as well. Over 7 1 2 inches of rain at weeki wachee. Some of these areas really needed rain but not this much in a short amount of time. As we look at the rainfall estimates, that white almost looks like snow, thats over a foot of rain estimated from doppler radar. You can see some of the coastal areas, maybe six inches of r
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
The most important piece of news you will get all day. All is quiet on the western front, bill. Yes it is. There we go. It is quiet and it will stay quiet for most of the day. Will take a look at Doppler Radar right now. There we go. You can see that we do have a couple of showers down here and thats about it. They are out in the gulf of south waste and we will watch our wins change direction today coming in at the west and that will push any showers inland by early afternoon. We are starting off at 80 right now and a. 74 clearwater. Wins mostly calm coming in and out of the southeast but it will change and become westerly later on. We are looking for a high today of 91. As we watch the temperatures like 102 by later this afternoon and even warmer inland. I will show you the best chances of rain and time them out for you. Breaking overnight, a car slams into a Police Cruiser and another vehicle causing both cars to go up in flames. Lets take a look at the scene. Just a few hours ago, y