Im josh benson. And im Stacie Schaible. This is first at 4 00. Right now it is still warm and really muggy outside. But this rain is making way for a huge drop in temperatures overnight. So for the latest on that, lets go to meteorologist julie phillips. Good afternoon, stacie. The rain is slow to move in this afternoon. It is bringing with it decent showers across the area. Here is a look at the plantation on crystal river. We have picked up 1. 6 inches of rain. Areas to the south not so much. Right here we have seen decent rainfall totals today. Here is the cold front were tracking, moving into the tampa bay area. We have been dealing with the clouds all day long. The rain was slow to move in. The cold front easing along. But the showers and storms have finally arrived. Not a ton of lightning with this. We are dealing with downpours in tampa bay. In the northern spots, we have Lightning Strikes in Citrus County. Tracking very heavy wayne through Wesley Chapel and pasco. But theres mo
Sleighager shot and killed a man. And tornadoes tearing through the midwest, and the forecasters say situations in iowa illinois and iowa and particularly dang dangerous. I want to get straight to chad meyers in the Severe Weather center for us tonight, chad. What i am hearing is that the midwest should be on alert, is that correct . Yes, even though we have lost the sup and the suns heat the storms will go for many hours. The storms were like a rake. Think about raking the garden and every time a storm comes by it came by it put down a tornado, one after another after another, and they got very close to chicago, and we are lucky that chicago didnt get into the way of some of the tornado, because they are ef4 tornadoes, and im not sure if it is ef5, but the damage is alarming, because it is gone. And some of the storms are down to champaign, and over to illinois and toledo and parts of eastern ohio and parts of West Virginia and these are the strongest storms and for a while, we had a
Nearly a decade after closing Belmont Elementary School, part of the Christian County Public Schools will be back in the building on Belmont Hill in the fall.
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