Another scorcher expected on Wednesday as temperatures will approach record highs once again. The high on Tuesday was 94 degrees with a peak heat index of 109 at 2 p.m. at the Sarasota/Bradenton airport.

Sure it’s only a few days into Summer, but it feels more like the heart of summer, like August with heat indices in the triple digits over the past few days.

The first full day of Summer will feel like it with highs in the low to mid 90′s and the heat index approaching 103 during the afternoon.

High pressure will prevail along with dry air and will basically shut down our chances for any cooling showers or thunderstorms over the next 3 days.

So what does African dust have to do with our weather this weekend? Quite a bit it seems as it will be over the Gulf of Mexico along with high pressure building slowly back in over the Suncoast.

Warm and muggy conditions will stick around through the next few days as SW winds continue to move in around a trough of low pressure in the Gulf of Mexico.

The timing of the storms will be overnight and during the morning hours along the coast on Tuesday with the main focus of storms inland later in the day.

Most of the storms this week have been inland and pushing toward the E. coast late in the day but that has come to an end.

Expect to see scattered showers and isolated thunderstorms once again during the morning hours along the coast and then mainly inland on Thursday.

The summer afternoon thunderstorm pattern usually gets going around mid June and this year will be no different. Typically high pressure hangs out near Bermuda.

With a persistent flow from SW to the NE expect a chance for a few scattered storms during the late night hours and early morning hours.

Saturday marked the World Ocean day. Sarasota Bay Watch and ninety-one volunteers including 30 divers conducted the annual New Pass underwater cleanup Saturday June 8, at Ken Thompson Park in Sarasota.

A complex system over the Southeast U.S. will swing a good deal of clouds, showers and thunderstorms our way over the weekend and beyond.

The tropical disturbance that was in the W. Gulf is now moving through the lower MS Valley.

Moisture will be on the increase over the Suncoast as we move through the rest of the work week and beyond.

With a persistent west wind through the next 7 days we can expect warm and very humid conditions to stick around through the week.

The pattern which fueled the storms producing tornadoes over the central U.S. is changing.

A cold front will push down to the SE U.S. over the next day or so.

The system responsible for bringing the heat to the SE U.S. is going to get beat up a bit by and approaching cold front.

We will see mostly sunny skies once again on Tuesday with highs in the upper 80s to near 90 at the beaches and low 90s elsewhere.

Temperatures have been soaring as of late, thankfully the humidity has been quite low making it much more bareable over the past few days.

The temperatures have been high but not the humidity thanks to an east wind which tends to warm us up but also keeps the humidity in check.

A large area of high pressure at the surface and into the upper reaches of the atmosphere will dominate our weather scene for the next week and beyond.

With a steady east wind and hardly a cloud in the sky we can expect temperatures to soar over the next few days.

The first named storm of the season forms outside of the official start of the 2019 hurricane season which begins June 1st

Look for a nice weekend as we will see generally fair skies, warm temperatures and little chance for rain.

High pressure is sprawling across the SE U.S. and will be the main weather feature through the upcoming week as it will not move much.

Get ready for some fairly quiet weather over the next 7 days as high pressure begins to dig in over the SE U.S. Typically in May we only see about 3 inches of rainfall.

The weather will be getting back to more typical weather for May here along the Suncoast. Last week we got a taste of summer with temperatures in the low to mid 90s and afternoon and evening thunderstorms.

A weak cold front and some energy moving in from the Gulf will bring some clouds along with a good chance for showers and a few thunderstorms on Tuesday.