Like yesterday, less than normal rainfall is expected today. The west wind pattern will remain unchanged with a coastal showers or isolated thunderstorm near the coast between morning and early afternoon

The National Hurricane Center is watching an area of low pressure, now centered over Georgia, which is drifting away from the Suncoast. As it moves away it is allowing an area of high pressure to build over the Suncoast from the south and brings in slightly drier air.

Warm, moist and unstable air is over-top of the Suncoast today. This combines with an area of low pressure across north Florida. With those features in place the chance for showers is good today

High pressure continues to lift north and the east wind has established itself over the Suncoast. Moisture in the atmosphere is limited aloft but at the surface remain high and will produce dangerous heat indexes again today.

A Heat Advisory has been issued for the Suncoast. It is expected that Heat Indexes will reach 106 to 110 between noon and 6pm today, which will increase the risk for heat exhaustion or heat stroke

High pressure located with a center very close to the Suncoast will cause very light winds today. . With air temperatures in the low 90′s and the moisture making it feel like 100

Our atmosphere remains moist enough to support scattered showers today. Like yesterday the focus for the storms will be inland, but along the coast a mid morning or early afternoon storm is possible.

The low pressure area over the Carolina’s is moving away and slowly decreasing in intensity. This will allow high pressure over the Suncoast to adjust to open a path for moisture to our south to move in.

Dry air continues to be pushed southward by a spinning low pressure area along the mid-Atlantic coast. This feature is acting as an omega block, a meteorological weather pattern that features very slow moving systems.

There is a nearly stationary mid-level area of low pressure the spins over the Carolina’s for the next few days. This feature, called a cut-off low, will produce storminess and the threat of flooding rain in the near coastal regions of North and South Carolina.

Upper air winds have brought in dry air aloft. While humidity remains high at the surface and heat indexes will hover near 100, the dry air aloft will limit the number of storms that develop in the late afternoon inland and drift to the coast in the early evening and early nigh

Moisture will converge over the Suncoast this afternoon as a cool front moves into Florida and stalls to the north. It will be another hot day with high temperatures in the low 90′s.

Tomorrow a weak front will sag into north Florida and stall. It’s effect will be to slightly destabilize the atmosphere and shift winds to the southwest.

High pressure controls our weather today. It builds in from the Atlantic and expands across Florida and into the Gulf waters. With the high in place our winds will be light and variable.

The Suncoast will slowly return to a more typical weather pattern. Expect mostly inland storms today

The flow of deep tropical moisture continues into the weekend with showers and thunderstorms possible almost any time.

Our tropical system in the southwest Gulf waters continues to develop. Much of the weekend forecast is dependent on the strength and location of this system

A broad surface low and trough with upper level energy approaching from the west will continue to keep unsettled weather across Florida. On the Suncoast we will watch Some slightly drier air aloft moves into the area and brings more morning and afternoon sunshine.

Drier air and high pressure is moving into the Suncoast and bringing with it the promise for lots of sunshine and rain free skies. Both today and tomorrow will feature similar weather with tomorrow being a bit warmer and having a few more clouds.

The upper air disturbance that encouraged strong thunderstorms yesterday is departing today and the surface cold front will sink south, stall and wash out.

A trough of low pressure over the eastern United States will see some energy passing through it today. That energy will tap into warm moist air over the state and bring good chances for thunderstorms later this morning and into the afternoon and evening.

It is not unheard of to get a tropical or subtropical storm develop outside of the normal hurricane season. In fact, it seems to be more common these days and some researchers theorize that it is due to a warmer planet and warmer ocean temperatures

A stalled front to the south and an expanding area of high pressure to the north will act together to bring a breezy wind out of the east for the next few days. This will tend to keep our west coast sea breeze pinned close to the coast.

Over the next few days our weather will be driven by an expanding area of high pressure to our north. Sunny skies can be expected and dry air in place will bring low relative humidity.

Sunshine will return to the forecast today as the front that helped to produce the weekend rains begins to weaken. A second front will sink south today without much notice other than a breezy wind.

The front that passed by last night will clear the state this morning and move in Atlantic waters and into the Florida Straights. It will stall there and wash out by tomorrow. High pressure building in will keep winds out of the north today and drive in cooler and much drier air for the next two day

The winds aloft will bring several surges of energy across Florida that will influence our weather on the Suncoast. The first will move past today with very little fanfare beyond a few clouds.

Don’t expect stormy weather for the week ahead. We will have hardly a cloud in the sky for the next few days as high pressure sits just about right over us. This will lead to light and variable winds with strong afternoon sea breezes.

The low pressure area that pulled the cold front through the Suncoast yesterday is now off the New England coast. While it is producing heavy rains there today, it’s movement has allowed high pressure to build in over the Suncoast.

Today will be similar to yesterday but a lot more humid. That will be especially true in the second half of the day when winds shift to the southwest and become breezy