Rise. Take a look at this view from the land o lakes. We do have scattered cloudiness overhead. You are waking up to 79 in clearwater, same for plant city, and lakeland, its kind of a popular matchup. Seventyseven for auburndale. As i mentioned, weve got clouds to start the day. A bit of a than we had yesterday. You can see the clouds rolling in from the south. Were not anticipating much in the way of rain this morning but by the afternoon, we expect a few more showers and thunderstorms compared to what we had yesterday. You see hourbyhour those temperatures climb back into the low 90s at or slightly above average. Its been that way for the last couple of days and it looks like that is going to continue. For the next couple of days, fairly seasonable pattern shaping up for well tell you when you will need umbrellas coming up. Thank you. Breaking news that were following this morning, violent crowds took over the streets of milwaukee overnight afterren amped man was fay after an armed m
78 this morning in st. Pete, 75 in zephyrhills and youre starting youre day at 79 for plant city, lakeland and a warm 81 in lake placid. Hourbyhour today, the numbers jump back into the low 90s. Perhaps a degree or two cooler than yesterday thanks the to cloudiness overhead. You can see the clouds already beginning to spread in from south florida. Also showers and thunderstorms offshore. I dont think rain is going to be much of an issue this morning but by this afternoon, were going to bring back the 40 rain chance and get used to that. Were going to break down the rain chances in greater detail in a few minutes. Breaking news this morning, violence, angry crowds took over the streets of milwaukee after an armed man was fatally mary, what do you know . This all started saturday afternoon when two Milwaukee Police officers stopped two people in a car on the citys in order to side. Both people in the car ran away. The officers started chasing them and during that chase, an officer fatall
Is looking quite healthy. In fact thunderstorms beginning to wrap around the center of circulation, indication this is getting healthier. As it moves north eventually and then makes that hook towards the big bend of florida. That will happen as weve been talking about on thursday. Beginning today a lot of rainfall coming up, just wont be steady and continuous overnight but we will set the stage for flooding potential because of the heavy rain that will continue tomorrow and then our day for significant wind would be thursday. That is when Tropical Storm conditions are possible as it makes its closest pass also of concern, not just because of the flooding rains but as the storm moves to our north were going to get that storm surge, wont be huge significant storms like you would with the big hurricane but its going to be enough i think that combined with a high tide cycle through the afternoons on thursday we are going to see the potential for some coastal flooding there as well. Of cour
Strength here sometime tomorrow especially into thursday. There you see the timing on it, thursday morning at 8 a. M. With 60 mileperhour winds, 8 p. M. Possible landfall somewhere in the big bend area, but were on the southern side, of course, which can create some very high tides, coastal flooding as well and, of course, the issue of picking up rain, moisture on the eastern side of it as well. Showers eventually will occur as a result of the storm moving up the midatlantic coast and potentially into the northeast in effect for inland areas, a hurricane watch that goes along all the way down to pasco county. Essentially this means within 48 hours you can possibly see some Hurricane Force wind gusts primarily, but again it will really have to get organized quite a bit to see that kind of magnitude of a system. Satellite imagery shows the cooler cloud tops, brighter colors here and most of the convection closer to the center of the circulation which was still sheered and quite a bit of
The forecast center. I cant call it a name because it still doesnt have one. It is just depression 9. Hermine is the next tropical depression on the list. It could be good news that it is not a Tropical Storm. That it is is a tropical depression. Not in a very good environment. Not much better than it was 24 hours ago. There is the big picture there. Gaston out to sea. We are interested in tropical depression number 9 wh still a tropical depression by the way. According to the National Hurricane center. As of 5 00, 35 miles an hour winds. Theres your forecast track very close to what the consensus of the major models are doing. A slight northerly shift. Of course, as we get closer to potential landfall, the cone itself, that white cone, gets a little thinner. 65 miles an hour thursday afternoon. You can see moving off to the northeast. Tropical cyclone. We could bring some very strong tides into the west coast of florida. Especially high tide thursday any time from noon until 3 00 in t