A Heat Advisory in effect for the afternoon between noon and 6 pm. The combination of the high humidity and the warm temperatures will bring the "feels like" temperatures up to about 108 degrees to 112 degrees.

It will be a hot and humid end of the week.

Dorian has become a stronger storm as it nears the South Carolina coast. On the back side of the storm the system will draw down dry and stable air in the upper air which forms of the premier of a hurricane. The dry air will remove any chance for rain today and for the next few days on the Suncoast.

Hurricane Dorian continues to move toward the Carolina coast and dry air continues to spill in behind it. That means we can expect plenty of sunshine on Thursday with highs in the low 90′s.

Heavy rain will fall on that coast Wednesday and surf will be elevated. But on our coast, we’ll see breezy conditions, prompting Small Craft and Rip Current advisories. The breezy conditions will likely begin to subside by Friday as Dorian continues to move away.

Dorian continues to move away from the NW Bahamas staying offshore of Florida as it moves NW at 5-10 mph. The top winds now down to 110 mph making it a strong category 2 hurricane.

Dorian’s forecast track continues to keep the storm off the coast of Florida with the forecast cone now keeping the uncertainty of two thirds error off land. The effects of the storm will still be felt on the Atlantic coast with gusty winds, rain and high water.

For the past 2 days now Dorian has been ripping up the NW Bahama Islands with winds of 185 mph. Those winds are now down to 140 mph with gusts of 175 mph.

The National Hurricane Center in Miami said in an advisory at 11 a.m. that Dorian’s maximum sustained winds are 155 mph, which takes the extremely dangerous storm down one notch, from Category 5.

Dorian will continue to slow down as it moves westward across the Northwestern Bahamas before beginning a gradual turn to the northwest late Monday.

Until the storm has made its turn to the north and moved above the Suncoast in latitude, we should remain vigilant with regards to its track.

Warm oceanic waters and little shear was all it took for Dorian to rapidly intensify over the past 24. It went from a 110 mph storm to 150 in less than 24 hours.

Its central pressure is dropping, its speed is increasing, the eye is forming and its rapidly developing. On Saturday, the storm will turn to the west and start heading for Florida, increasing to a Category 4 hurricane in strength.

The latest forecast track from the National Hurricane Center continues to show a path into Florida’s east coast. Timing of the hit should be late Sunday or early Monday.

It is still forecast to become a Category 2 then Category 3 major hurricane over the next 24 to 48 hours. Now that the center is out over open very warm water we can expect a rapid increase in intensity.

The latest update on hurricane Dorian shows it getting deeper in pressure. The pressure drop in just 3 hours was 7mb. Now that the center is out over open very warm water we can expect a rapid increase in intensity over the next 2 days.

Dorian, now a Category 1 hurricane, is gaining in strength and new forecasting shows it possibly becoming a Category 3 storm before it hits the East Coast of the United States - but where it will hit remains uncertain.

Dorian has not gained strength much today and actually had a redevelopment of the center further to the north. This has made a change in the path over the next few days but is still on track to hit somewhere along the E. coast of Florida sometime on Sunday.

High pressure keeps control of our weather over the next few days. It will bring us a west wind that will cause a few morning and early afternoon showers near the coast. By early afternoon the showers will cross the interstate and increase in coverage, leaving the coastal areas drier.

Dorian has been battling dry air for most of its life. The dry air will still be around through the day and Tuesday and should inhibit this storm from gaining any significant strength throughout the day.

With high pressure again being suppressed to our south we will continue to see scattered showers and thunderstorms during the morning and early afternoon near the coast and then mainly inland east of I-75 later in the day.

We have active weather to start the new work week on the Suncoast. A trough of low pressure is sagging into north Florida and helping hold a high pressure ridge to our south. With the high to our south, our winds have shifted to the southwest.

The system which has been hanging around, off the east coast of Florida over the past few days will not be a problem for Florida as it moves by the Carolinas this evening.

The tropics are very active right now.

The tropics are really heating up as we monitor an area of low pressure near SE Florida. This system is expected to move over S. Florida and along the E. coast of Florida on Sunday.

There are several elements of the forecast that will be carefully watched over the next few days. The first is an area of disturbed weather just off the south Florida Atlantic coast.

Slightly drier air will reduce the rain chances for today to only 20%. There will be some storms that develop but the coverage will be much less that on a typical summer day.

A tropical disturbance E. of the N. Bahamas will move closer to Florida on Thursday. This system will bring some slightly drier air our way on Thursday out ahead of this tropical wave.

Slightly drier air is in the process of moving into the atmosphere from the Atlantic. The impact for the Suncoast will be a slightly lower coverage of the afternoon showers today

Some slightly drier air will be hanging around through Thursday in the mid to upper levels of the atmosphere mean only a few late day storms on Wednesday. Some of those storms could bring some moderate to heavy rainfall and some dangerous lightning.

An area of high pressure is now to our north and so our winds will remain out of the southeast today. The winds across the state and our local sea breeze will meet in the afternoon and trigger numerous thunderstorms along the interstate corridor.

With the predominate west wind gone and now an east to southeast wind we can expect mainly afternoon and evening thunderstorms to develop each day this week and move from inland areas toward the coast.

We are returning to a more typical summer Suncoast pattern today. As high pressure begins to shift to the north our winds will establish out of the east. A sea breeze will form in the afternoon and rain chances increase late in the day.

We’ll see a brief break in the rain at the start of the week.

We still have showers and thunderstorms in our forecast for the rest of today and tonight. Into the overnight period and into Sunday, we continue to see chances for showers and thunderstorms.

The front which has been responsible for all the rain is about to fade away but not until late Saturday. High pressure will build back to our north which will switch our winds around to the SE which will bring mainly afternoon and evening storms coming to the coast from inland areas.

Its a First Alert Weather Day due to the heavy rain potential that could bring urban and small stream and poor drainage area flooding. The ground is saturated as many areas have seen several inches of rain over the last few days

Just one more day of gloomy weather and then things start to improve for the weekend. We have declared Friday as a First Alert Weather day due to the possibility of minor flooding and rip currents along the area beaches.

A cold front will continue to drift to the N. Gulf of Mexico on Thursday this will keep a high pressure system suppressed to our south. This will continue to funnel warm moist air in from the Gulf right into our area through Friday and possibly the weekend.

A FLOOD WATCH is in effect for the Suncoast into Friday and may be extended into the weekend. Two important characteristics of the atmosphere will be very important over the next few days.

High pressure has been pushed to the south of the Suncoast and is now positioned over the Keys and Florida Straits. This has been the pattern as of late and will stay that way through the weekend.

The west wind flow has increased the moisture in the atmosphere and raised the possibility of heavy rain over the next 3 or 4 days. Additionally, recent rain has saturated the ground and any heavy rain will rapid run-off onto the roads.

This pattern of morning showers and thunderstorms along the coast will continue through the rest of this work week.

The west wind pattern continues today for a unusually long run of warm and muggy days that feature scattered, almost any time almost anywhere, showers and thunderstorms. The difference between last week and this week is a slight increase in the atmospheric moisture available to produce heavy rains.

And that was certainly the way it was today. The sunshine made a brief appearance this morning and then we were left with mostly cloudy skies and the occasional rain shower and thunderstorm.

Stay hydrated this weekend as very sticky weather will be in play through Sunday.

The weather pattern for the Suncoast will remain basically unchanged into next week with only minor day to day changes. Rain chances near the coast will slightly lower today but scattered showers are still expected.

Westerly winds around an area of high pressure in the Gulf will allow for some scattered showers along the coast in the morning and early afternoon and then the main focus of storms shifts inland later in the day.

We remain in a west wind pattern with moderate winds off Gulf waters. This pattern is one we see about one-third of the time during the summer on the Suncoast. It will bring showers from the Gulf waters onto the shore during the morning and afternoon hours before the focus for the storms shifts into

For today, you can expect basically the same forecast as we had on Monday and Tuesday; scattered showers and thunderstorms during the morning hours, then afternoon storms inland, with those storms moving eastward.

Today’s forecast will be much like yesterday’s... southwest-west winds bringing warm and muggy conditions, coastal morning showers and storms, and a few big storms developing inland by this afternoon.

Despite the short term scattered showers and thunderstorms we are going to see much drier weather ahead but it will still be hot and humid.

Due to a southwesterly wind flow around an area of high pressure to the south, and a stationary boundary to the north, a wet weather pattern, (or otherwise known as a, “moisture sandwich”), will set up over the Suncoast, and bring morning showers and storms for the next several days.

There is a very good chance of seeing a scattered showers and thunderstorms to start the week.

here’s a break in the rain for Saturday night and Sunday.

It looks as if we’ll see more scattered showers and thunderstorms through the weekend.

In the short term a wet weather pattern is locked in for the Suncoast. A upper level low pressure area in the Gulf will combine with tropical moisture lifting north from the Bahamas to bring rain chances of 70% to 80%.

Chances for afternoon showers and thunderstorms along coastal areas will be on the increase today. A weaker sea breeze and slightly higher moisture content in the air will bring a 50% chance for late day storms.