This monday morning. Did you see the closing ceremonies of the olympics in rio. This morning, many people talking about this, the epic entrance of japans Prime Minister. A big tease for the tokyo olympics. We will have much more just ahead. But first, a check on the monday forecast. Yeah, a quiet start as we start a brand new work and school week in tampa bay. And we are starting off on a warm note here, 80 degrees for 77 in clearwater. And getting your day started cooler there for zephyrhills, 72 degrees this morning. Overall, not a bad start. The radar is completely quiet out there this morning. And we do carry a rain chance, only about a 10 chance and then the storms start to develop. Only about a 20 chance through the afternoon. And theyll favor our inland locations and in the meantime, it stays warm. 92degrees. So heating up later on today. Heating up, the tropics at 5 38. First, another check of the roads. So far, its been fairly quiet. Yeah, no heating up on the roadways. Im enj
Clouds along the coastline. And we cant rule out a stray shower developing this morning. But i think most of us are going to stay with rainfree conditions for the morning. So High Pressure in firm control. It limited the rain chances yesterday. I think it will do the exact same thing today. Otherwise, warm this morning. How about 48 at Clearwater Beach this morning . 76 for macdill. 75 in lutz. And generally a mix of 70s and 80s with a warm 81 degrees in tampa. And its going to be a steamy afternoon we will see the temperatures are going to be a bit of above average for today, not many thunderstorms to cool us down. Time for a quick check of whats happening with the roads. Good morning. Below average actually. Yeah. Its a good drive. And now we have an accident reported by the florida Highway Patrol here. And this is supposedly southbound out on the pinellas side of the Howard Frankland bridge. Taking a look at our cameras. This accident could be in between the cameras. Thats near pine
Midnight. And this tropical wave just between puerto rico and the dominican republic, its still an invest meaning its a tropical wave, not a tropical system at this point. They are sending in the Hurricane Hunters every day. Yesterday, they didnt find a closed circulation. Thats good news. And in the short term, actually doesnt have a good chance of developing. But once we get into the five day range, thats an 80 chance of becoming tropical. And lets focus on gaston with 45 Miles Per Hour winds. Should weaken and then strengthen again out to sea. And not an issue for land masses. Now thats the difference between that and invest 99. It will impact land masses. It will head toward the bahamas. If its not a tropical system by the time it heads into the bahamas, good chance it will at that point. This is saturday morning. After that, it heads toward the florida area, more than likely, how strong it is, thats still it comes. Anywhere from east florida over toward the central portion of the
Us is pretty small. In fact, nothing really changed since it got its name. A better look shows you where the clouds and rain are. The center of circulation just moving into south georgia but nothing on the left side, nothing on the southern side. Almost all of the rain on the northern side headed into South Carolina. Its going to draw up extra tropical moisture for us. Right now, 40 Miles Per Hour winds. By this afternoon, its going to be a depression and drift north through georgia and si more humid today and thats why we have a couple showers off the gulf of mexico. But not very many. Western portions of manatee and Sarasota County, some showers. 20 rain chances this morning. And again, this is a tropical air mass so we will get thunderstorms to develop, 30 rain chance at lunchtime. 50 rain chance by the afternoon. And the storms will push inland. In weather and traffic on the 8s, i have an hourbyhour look at your wednesday and leslee lacey has the commute this morning because theres
Hear a few claps of thunder along i75. 77 in plant city, brooksville youre at 75, lakeland 75, sarasota currently at 76 degrees. Basically dry through the morning. Now, as we head through the afternoon i do expect a good coverage of rain, about a 40 chance and the storms are slow moving. Afternoon high around 89. Coming up in weather and traffic 8s at 4 08 one area in the tropics you attention to. Leslee is tracking the traffic over the roads. Some construction but not too bad. Travel times i4 through plant city things look great. No delays there. Now headed over to a little bit outside here in the polk county area, eastbound i4 right near the polk parkway, got some construction, possible detours in place so keep that in mind. Lets take a look at the hour Howard Frankland bridge. Only 6 minutes to cross it. Back to melanie and gene. Mourning Miami Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez. He was in on on a boat when it crash intoed crashed into a jetty. He was only 24. He came to tampa when he w