It’s going to be another nice one for SWFL today!

The pocket of dry air in the atmosphere that moved over us this weekend remains overhead today, helping to limit rain chances. While humidity will be slightly higher it still will be nowhere near the awful humidity we’ve seen through much of the summer. Combined with a steady east breeze, it will still feel decent out there this afternoon, despite highs reaching the middle and lower 90s. While a highly isolated brief shower can’t be ruled out by the coast this afternoon, just about everyone will remain dry throughout the day. 

Our dry stretch continues tomorrow, with another rain-free afternoon. Highs will be back in the lower 90s, right around average for this time of year.

Tropical moisture will begin to nose back into the area for Friday and the weekend, bringing back our more typical summertime thunderstorms during the afternoons. 

Tracking the tropics:

Tropical storm Lee continues to gain strength in the deep tropical Atlantic. It will stay on a WNW course, sliding just south of the Caribbean by the weekend, likely as a major hurricane. Models are in good agreement that the storm will turn to the north from there, staying well east of Florida. Regardless, we’ll be watching it closely. 

Another disturbance will move off of Africa later this week. It will also try to organize, but is forecast quickly turn out to sea. This will likely take the name Margot.

Lastly, the remnant low pressure area of once-hurricane Franklin is swirling in the north Atlantic. It will attempt to reorganize as it dives southward over the warmer waters between Portugal in the Azores in the far eastern side of the basin. Regardless it is no threat to land.