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Its warm, its stuffy outside. Were beginning with some cloud cover this morning and i actually have a couple of sprinkles. Now, theyre falling apart but if you run into them in rural manatee or sarasota county, dont be surprised. 75 closer to punta gorda, theyre a steady sprinkle activity. I think its more than a nuisance to the morning commute. During the evening commute, different. Well get more in the way of stronger storms and heavier downpours. 79 degrees in tampa, brandon, st. Petersburg. ...

Storm team 8 meteorologist steve jerve. 80 Miles Per Hour winds for hermine shortly before landfall looking at it on the satellite imagery probably within the hour. Our effects will be mostly wate especially high tide flooding coming up in the Early Morning hours, but there it is, 80 mileperhour winds moving north, northeast at 14 Miles Per Hour. It will eventually move inland you can see north of valdosta, georgia,ak Tropical Storm and long term up the east coast as a tropical depression, could...

Into downtown bradenton area. Theres your storm, it is tropical depression. However, take look at the satellite. Look at the difference in the presentation from 3 oclock this morning to now. Looks a lot more impressive. I think once they get a plane out there, this will easily be upgraded to Tropical Storm. We need for it to do is start to move. Because only moving north at 2. And the slower it goes more chance of intensification it will have. Still tropical to remember in big bend area. Troll c...

Minute with look at the skytower radar forecast. Right now though, some st. Petersburg roads are being flooded because of the consistent rain. Just minutes ago car had to be pushed out road after being stuck. Look at that. All of that water. Keep in mind, were just getting going here with this thing. So, lets start with vanessa and then well move over to dave. Yeah guys we have some big problems on the roadways. Crashes galore and then of course the flooding concerns which well talk about in jus...

Stronger here 8 oclock winds are now up to 65 miles perouf e. Again this was anticipated probably going to become a minimal hurricane before making its way on shore in big bend area tonight. You mentioned how much rain we later today. We will definitely exacerbate the issue make it harder because this water is still trying to go and get back to the bay and gulf. So Tropical Storm hermine 65 mile per hour winds. Other noticeable change here at 8 oclock is the Forward Movement is just a smidge fas...

And storm team 8 has been tracking hermine every step of the way. Heres meteorologist Julie Phillips with the latest. Weve been tracking hermine since invest 99 l. At this point, moving away from us. We still have lingering Tropical Storm around. Heres the view from iness brook. 80 degrees. Rainfall totals, 2 inches today. Some places not as much. Some places have seen significant totals since midnight. Heres satellite imagery of hermine. Still bringing with it heavy rain and erweather. So its e...

Some rain down by sarasota. I want to bring your attention we talked about these strong winds. This caught my attention a few minutes ago. This is an Emergency Action message that requested a civl emergency message. This is transmitted at the request of the florida Emergency Management agency. Citrus county, dangerous coastal flooding possible. Monitor media county could be as high as 4 to 8 feet later on tonight as hurricane hermine passes west of them, but theyre obviously closer to the center...

Please avoid. It looks like we have a road ranger now just showing up on scene. Were waiting to see how they handle the situation. We also know that walter is going to be out there giving us a live report as soon as he can. But big mess out there. Drivers, if you do have to exit here, make sure youre doing it and exit earlier. Dont go all the way over here. Youll get stuck. We have standing water reports northbound 275 near 175 so passing by tropicana field. Left center lanes are blocked. P, nor...

And thunderstorms. Some of those are other the western part of pasco county. And the atmosphere has a lot of moisture in it so when it rains it produces a whole lot of precipitation. You can see thunderstorms there around New Port Richey. Most of pasco county all the way up to dade city. Areas that have been saturated with previous rain the last 24 hours are continuing to get more. And that tends to lead to more flooding. Further south, things are relativeui have rain set to move on shore. So we...

Chances for all of us increase as the moisture comes back at us here. It starts friday and heads into the weekend. Hour by hour forecast takes to us 10 00 with low 80s. And again afternoon highs in the low 90s. Well talk about the higher rain chances in a few minutes and the tropics as well. For now the roads are dry. Its a good way to start the morning. If youre heading to the interstates no crashes or breakdowns to tell you about throughout the bay area. This is what it looks like i 275 and bu...