The remainder of Friday will be mainly cloudy, with the chance of storms through 9 PM. Overnight, clouds will eventually clear out, and temperatures will fall into the upper 70s.

Saturday morning will start out sunny and warm. The storms will hold off until around lunchtime, with the first storms popping up in rural Collier, Glades, and Hendry County. Late afternoon, the downpours and t-storms will spread towards Southwest Florida’s coast. Storms will taper off in the evening, but the clouds will stick around. Highs will be in the lower 90s.

The good news about the weekend is that temperatures will be limited to the lower 90s. However, storms are once again likely for Sunday. We will have tropical moisture starting to move in from a disturbance in the Caribbean. Read more in the tropics below.

Tracking the Tropics:

Tropical activity is starting to pick up. An area of disturbed weather over the southeastern Bahamas is forecast to move into the Gulf of Mexico early next week as a low. Further development into a tropical depression is possible mid-week as it moves west, approaching the western Gulf coastline.

Another broad area of showers/t-storms, located in the central tropical Atlantic, has a marginal chance to become a tropical depression in the next day or so. However, upper-level winds are forecast to become unfavorable for further development of the disturbance.

The area that currently has the highest chance for tropical development, in the eastern tropical Atlantic, will most likely not affect land as it moves west-northwest.

Lastly, there is a disturbance several hundred miles from the Lesser Antilles that has the chance for slow development through early next week. We will keep a close eye on this system as it slowly moves west-northwest at 10-15 MPH in the upcoming days.