Parents up early to head back to school today. And it will not be rainy like it has been all week. Except for after school. But then youre not trying to impress people. All the rain has shifted towards the western panhandle of florida. And look closer to home. There may be some sprinkles, but not the heavy dunn powers that weve seen in the past couple of mornings. Sarasota, you might sneak in here with heavier rain. Ive highlighted for you. So off to class this morning. Patchy clouds around and 76 and slim rain chance and after school, that is when the rain chances get better, 87 degrees. And look at it here. This morning, 20 and 30 at lunchtime and 50 early afternoon and 60 by the time the rest of us are coming home from work around 6 00 tonight. So i have an hour by hourlike at this first day of school for many kids. With the buses. Back to school affects all of us, if you have children or not. You will see extra traffic on the roads. Downtown tampa already busy here. Both directions
Olympic team and well get that for you in a minute. The first day of school. How does it look when the kids go back to this morning. If youre going become to school, youre probably just waking up now. And im grading the days forecast at a b. At least it will be mostly dry when you head into school. I know everybody is dressed in the new clothes, excited to head off to school. And 78 degrees and some clouds around. And the rain chance comes up as we go through the so around lunchtime, 30, 40 chance and a much better rain chance after you come home from school today. 87 degrees at this point. Watch for the puddles. And sunday, weve seen anywhere from 4 to 8 inches of rainfall along the coast. And pockets of heavy rain other places too. So take it easy out there. And most of heavy rain in the panama city area. And a couple of sprinkles in the out of the question, and at noon. 60 after 5 00 p. M. So 5 38, i have your eight Day Temperature Trend to get you through the rest of the week and m
Of low pressure, its sitting right about say about here. So that is slowly working its way on to the west. So conditions are going to start to improve. Not today, but as we head through the day tomorrow. Kind of pullot o dee tralopic moisturway from us as you look skytower radar right now heaviest rain is working its way through Pinellas County from palm harbor strchg over toswardo clrwlao, pinlas park, andn along the beaches down towards st. Pete beach, moving down bridge, some very heavy rain right now moving over the bridge right now. That goes down into Manatee County as well. Over towards longboat key. A little bit of lightning in there. As far as rainfall rates pretty heavy rain in there you thatomi little over inches som upee ho so obviously just, tts tha torrential rain which is working its way through central and southern Pinellas County right now. More heavy rain down into maouly notice just like weve seen over the past several days, basicallyestf i75 everything is coast righ
From this map. New port richey, tampa still at 74 but its lovely, lovely outside this morning. Well get a beautiful sunrise in an hour and 11 minutes and just a 20 rain chance. Thats it for later this afternoon. Very similar to yesterday as highs sneak back in the lower 90s. Vanessa well check the roadways starting off with an seems to be the most serious crash of the morning as far as lane blockage is concerned. Pinellas county southbound 275 in the area of pinellas point drive. Make sure youre using caution. Were not seeing very many delays in the area and were keeping it here in pinellas. A new crash at 126 avenue north at 66th street north. Appears to be on the shoulder but remember your move over law. Russell thanks. After stopping a man who ran away with nearly 25,000 in jewelry. Now, the thief was caught on camera and deputies hope that someone can help to track him down. Laura and Shayla Reaves is live for us at the Sheriffs Office. Theres a lot to talk about. Is there any prog
Morning. Good morning to you, yeah, it has only weakened slightly down to 155mile per hour winds it only needs to be 156 to be a cat 5 again you can see how intense this storm is. You can see the eye here and it does have some of that overcast now, so it is starting to get upper level winds blowing cloud cover over the eye so it is not quite as clear as it was over the last several hours. The reason it is starting to weaken some, still a cat 4 storm this is not a storm you want to be in the path of it will start to make more of a northerly track over the next couple days then eventually looks like making its way right along the eastern side of jamaica, and then through eastern cuba and then into the bahamas it will weaken along the path as it interacts with land but still talking about a significant system having a islands as it moves across them. At this point even though southeast florida is in the cone of uncertainty most models are in good agreement it will stay off of the east coa