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
Polk County Emergency Management Polk County shelters will open on Tuesday, August 29. General population and a pet-friendly shelter will open at 4 p.m.:Tenoroc High School - 4905 Saddle Creek Rd., Lakeland - Pet-friendlyMulberry Middle School - 500 Martin Luther King Ave., MulberryHorizons Elementary - 1700 Forest Lake Drive, DavenportChain…
Tampa Bay-area communities will offer storm shelters for residents needing to seek shelter from Idalia's impacts, including high winds and storm surge.
With Idalia expected to touch down in Florida as a hurricane later this week, counties across Central Florida have announced emergency shelter locations for residents to turn to in case of an evacuation.