Try to be optimistic when you look at these things. We had that sudden turn that was bad news for people. And there will be weakening and we are hoping the mountains may do a number of on this and cause it to weaken. Do you thing it will happen . No i dont. If you look at the track it is in line models. It is the big picture. The track is more to the west now than at 5 oclock. Not a huge amount but if we are look at a track that takes the category 4 hurricane through the them and . Sure they know what is going on. This is not something you want them to be around. I am not trying to paint this uglier than it is. This is something for mel bourn up to jacksonville has not seen for a long time. Tropical storm forced in the bay area but this is clearly off to the east from miami to west palm into the Treasure Coast and into the space coast they will have the worst of this. I will have more in a couplef of minutes. Sending ships to haiti. I people in south and east florida are bracing for Hu
Im deiah riley. A hurricane watch is posed for some central counties. Residents on the eastern seaboard are stocking up to prepare for the storm. If you think you will have to evacuate go do it now before the roads get clogged. Governor rick scott we expect impacts from reporter roadways are clogged in south carolina. Governor nikki haley issuing a warning. If you dont get out in time, you may get stuck. That is worstcase scenario to be stuck on the coast with no place to go because you didnt meet the evacuation time. Mandatory evacuation orders were issued for parts of north carolina. All three states plus georgia declared states of emergency through the caribbean. Matthew will brush up againsted east coast of the United States this week, residents are preparing and stocking up on everything from groceries and water to fuel and cash. I am hearing a lot of screeching of tires. Im waiting my time. I know it will be worse tomorrow. As people along the eastern seaboard brace for Hurricane
We have seen a couple of sprinkles daily. Today we will introduce at times steady but mainly light showers and that is the case right now through portions of polk county and highlands. Elsewhere we have more spotty sprinkles that have developed just north of tampa pushing north and west. We have one exiting palm ha harbor. One more near New Port Richey and nothing left cancelling our plans. We will be monitoring the showers. Probably rain with themselves out as they push west. Frost lake placid and a couple of those locations the rain is steadier than what we saw for the past week. The pattern has not changed. The east wind brings in a little more moisture today. You will notice more clouds than sun at times as well. As we spell out our saturday, rain chances are not widespread but higher than 30 . Hit 87. Above average. Any cooler weather on the horizon. The sevenday forecast coming up, guys. This happening near gulf to bay near highland avenue. That victim was shot multiple times, wa
From macdill to u. S. 41. Steadier showers north of i4, Temple Terrace as well as plant city dealing with showers this morning and these are pushing north and west and making their way to portions of pinellas. Some of the first rain drops the day, citrus park, odessa, palm harbor and dunedin that are quickly moving no northnorthwest. Mostly sunny. Dade city. The steadier pocket west of bulk city. Hop over to polk county where we have that bravely been heavy and on the move, winter haven, lakeland, you are next raining for you now. Eastern hillsborough dealing with showers and hardee, desoto highland pushing westnorthwest and extreme eastern portions of sarasota county. Starting off the day cloudy, lingering moisture. 72 degrees with that east wind. We will hop over to clearwater this morning where it is 73 degrees, cloudy. I wouldnt cancel your beach keep an eye on the radar. Have a flies go inside. 73, brandon, 73, tampa. 74 in sarasota. Should in the 60s this time of year and mid80s
Alcides i am alcides se segui. Thank you so much for joining us. Lindsay is here to talk about the forecast. The temps are here for so long. Lindsay for some of us it has been rainy. Clouds toward the west, toward the beach. We are drier in pinellas. We are at 74 degrees here in tampa this morning and quite a bit of cloud cover where we did see the showers, which in many spots is still raining but i think we will turn off the faucet and and introduce spotty afternoon showers that will push west throughout the day. While most of it has been light, tracking moderate pockets west of i4 now. West of polk city. North of plant city. Maybe briefly clipping the south end of zephyrhills. Dry in downtown tampa. North steady light rain with. A couple of sprinkles in coastal pinellas but not many north of New Port Richey we have showers. Showers. North of myacca city. Arcadia dealing with rain as well and that will be binding down shortly. A couple of have you jumped this hour if it is not raining