FEW CLOUDS TODAY; RAIN & STORMS POSSIBLE THURSDAY INTO FRIDAY… Other than a few passing clouds on this Wednesday, we will be dry and warm. High temperatures will be in the mid-80s today. A few showers and thunderstorms may become possible Thursday afternoon ahead of higher rain chances on Friday. Severe weather continues to be unlikely on Friday, but we will have rain and storms around at times. Rain will be possible at times on Saturday as well ahead of a drier few days on Sunday into Monday. Tuesday is when our next cold front will approach. The front is slated to bring cooler temperatures to our region in the latter half of next week.
ISOLATED STORMS POSSIBLE THURSDAY… There is a good chance that most of the day on Thursday will be dry. We could see a few thunderstorms popping up after 1PM, mainly in communities along the eastern side of our region in Butler, Covington, and Okaloosa counties.
RAIN & THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED ON FRIDAY… Scattered showers and thunderstorms will be possible throughout the day on Friday, extending into Friday evening. If you’re planning to go to a high school football game Friday evening, I would plan for rain and storms. Storms could be loud at times on Friday but at this point, severe weather continues to be unlikely to happen. All of the rain and storms on Friday into Friday night are because of an area of low pressure moving in from the west. This will pave the way for Gulf moisture to increase across the region.
10% CHANCE OF TROPICAL DEVELOPMENT IN CARIBBEAN… The area of disturbed weather in the Caribbean Sea is not expected to become a tropical storm, at this point. The National Hurricane Center continues to outline this area in a low-end (10%) chance zone where tropical storm development may happen, but it is obvious (based on the latest model trends) that development is unlikely. The upper-level environment is simply unfavorable for development at this point. Good news!
TRACKING HURRICANE EPSILON… Bermuda may have some of the outer effects of Hurricane Epsilon over the next few days as the system passes just to the east of the island commonwealth. A Tropical Storm Warning is now in effect for Bermuda. Epsilon will likely remain a category 1 hurricane as the storm passes the island. Epsilon is forecast to turn to the north followed by a turn to the northeast. This means that Epsilon won’t ever be a direct threat to the U.S. other than potentially causing some high waves along the Eastern Seaboard.
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