temperatures today topping out at 88 in sarasota, 86 tampa, low 80s from lakeland to bartow clearwater 82. crystal river and up north 86 degrees. temperature can be mostly cloudy but it is dry, 83 degrees. clearwater 79, saint pete at 80 degrees. there's the satellite. a little bit of everything today, spotty showers turn to pop up some sunny periods, some cloudy periods but the temperatures remain well above normal, that will be changing starting late tomorrow. i will stress this, this will not be a blast of cold air, you will not have a refreshing sunday or monday morning or need the sweater or sweatshirt or boots, but you will notice tomorrow morning we will be the same. kind of muggy to start the day but then through the afternoon all of a sudden here comes the front. ahead of it a decent chance of an isolated shower, 10% to 20% the best chance of north because the further south that goes the weaker it gets. tomorrow afternoon or evening we can't write off a shower a 20% chance for the seven date. -- day forecast. a lot of clouds on saturday i think we will see more clouds than son

rain percentage of normal the last 30 days 100% the average rainfall getting 5% of normal in bartow in clearwater 7% in newport, 2% brayden schenn 8% point pretty dry. 58 degrees cool to start the day. noon 74, 78 at 3:00 p.m. bright sunshine. 60 at the airport, dew point 54. forecast low 58, pretty close. north wind 5 miles per hour, 80% relative committee. temps have cool down 50 in inverness, 47 brooksville, 61 plant city. cooler farther to the north. we had clouds to contend with in areas last night. a lot of clouds across the keys today. florida straits cold front, same one making a cooler and drier across the sunshine state is stalled against my sure showers continue to fall back into cuba and offshore over the bahamas. a wet cloudy day in the area. nice and clear now across most of the area. clouds chasing across the area but mostly lots of sunshine in the forecast. hurricane season still here. 80% chance of the next five days of developing but not much in the way of movement as we look at the computer models thrown on one map, this is what they are doing. usually this time of year we get

right now 62 in bartow, 60 clearwater, st. pete 64, 52 in brandon, 54 inverness, 51 weeki wachee, 57 brooksville. around the rest of the country not really extreme weather given the time of year, of course, temps near freezing not that unusual in the northeast and great lakes. those are the current numbers, 51 degrees in oklahoma not much on the west coast, although there are some showers in the pacific northwest. dallas is a 45 minute delay, new york city a 30 minute delay. as we go throughout thursday, we'll see a bit of a warming trend with the jet stream lifting north, warmer temperatures return, close to average or slightly above. add to that a little humidity. saturday another front at the surface coming through at the upper levels. cool air to the north, warm air south. that will build in and allow through. in terms of precip across the central part of the country is where the bulk of it's going on, but i did mention a few showers in northern california and the higher elevations. this is good news because they need snow

chilly to start the day. 10 degrees below our average level. 59 lakeland plant city. 53 degrees clearwater. bartow 54. sebring 65. a lot of folks are hitting the road or hitting the skies to travel to visit family or just to get out of town. 41 degrees in new york city. 5 degrees minneapolis. 64 in los angeles. airport delays really the only in the country we could fine at laguardia still holding at 113 minutes. got some snow around the area but holiday travel in new york city you know the story there. around the rest of the country don't see much precip on the west coast a little bit of rain. you can see scattered throughout the west. west of dunn very down to albuquerque. northern part of pennsylvania sections of new england as well. there is some snow in that part of the country. dress warmly. back in the tropics and yes the tropics are still active in the atlantic basin tropical storm otto. we talked about this all last week had the potential for development. moving to the west shouldn't get into the atlantic and get a name pacific name not retain the atlantic name. 50 miles per hour winds for

fortier zephyrhills. 50 degrees bartow. 52 lakeland. 55 clearwater. it is significantly warmer than yesterday. lately you are 11 degrees warmer but brooksville you are 21 degrees warmer. we're starting warmer and we afternoon with a high of 79 above the average of 77. tonight we are dropping down a 63 degrees. at 5:08 i will have your travel weather and possible delays. >>> right now we have no delays. we are looking great right now. it is actually a wonderful time if you are up. you might want to head on the road if you are going out of town. traffic is extremely light. i 75 and hillsborough county commute. a lot of weight -- people are working today but overall they have a pretty good drive. let's take a live look. this is a wonderful shot. this is a wonderful drive in all the bay area bridges are up to speed >>> is donald trump backing down from several of his campaign promises? there are a lot of questions after he dropped some bombshells during an hour-long interview with the new york times. meredis good morning, the big news, donald trump does n

you look temperatures. 70 in tampa. 70 in bartow. 70 in clearwater. 73 in sarasota. northeast winds will shift to the north later today. really we will go back up to 85 degrees for high today under partly cloudy skies. 83 tomorrow. and then by the weekend, we'll bring high down. really just a few degrees. can't wait to talk to you more about that in just a little bit. vanessa. all right can't wait to hear more, thanks, dave. 9:01. want to get to roads it's been pretty busy throughout morning latest major incident we're following off i-4 near orient road this is conclusion of what we're hearing is an hcso pursuit of breaking, entering suspects. >> from what we're able to tell tire tracks in area it appears i-4 and all way down into this ditch. we're hearing that deputies have caught all the suspects apparently some of them tried to run after this crash. and so this is going to be wrapping up in this area. but this i-4 in orient. not causing any lane blocks there are no concerns about slow downs in the area if you see the scene, that what's going on. we do want to remi

our warmer spots, tampa and sarasota you are in the mid to upper 70s. 72 lakeland, 72 clearwater, 72 bartow, 75 brooksville. it is dry conditions. we're really hanging onto the cloud cover. it is all pushed out. the entire peninsula is clear it will remain clear through the day today, tomorrow and mostly friday. friday we start to build in a little moisture. we will call it mild, still dry ahead of this cold front. this will be a big weather changer. not because of the way it's going to come through bring any rain but the main thing it will do is bring in is very chilly air, some of the coolest air we have seen in many months. that is for sunday night into monday. get ready for that. >> even though it is cooling down, the tropics, we're still this area has an 80% chance of developing, but the computer models are taking it anywhere. it is sitting there spinning in the southwestern portion of the caribbean. no concern but we are letting you know we're tracking the tropics this late in the season . we're enjoying the sunshine today. it feels nice outside with a high of 79. we will tonight espe

across the region, really clear skies across the northern part of the state today. 60 clearwater beach, 63 macdill, bartow 65, lake placid 64, sarasota, north port and 50s in crystal river. skies starting to clear across the northern portion of the area, clear skies and light wind conditions lead to with the cooler air mass chillier overnight lows. still got the cloud going, cold front to our south and a few showers, too very light stuff, though, just dots on the of the state. look at gainesville already clear and starting to erode around citrus and hernando county. north to south we'll start to see that clearing take place. hey, you may not have known hurricane season runs through the end of november. we have this area watching over the next five days about a 70% chance of possible tropical development according to the national hurricane center, that blob down to the south. most computer models don't do too much with it, but the sea surface temperatures which you usually need to be 80 degrees plus and still have sea surface temperatures there 85 degrees in the caribbean owned by a buoy in the area. so it

temperatures are very comfy brooksville, then really mostly low to mid 60s from clearwater, brandon, bartow, winters haven, all the way across central florida. very, very comfy. upper 50s, there you go from brooksville to the mid 50s in jacksonville and even miami has gotten into the act with some of this little bit of drier air working its way in. now, here is the deal. over the course of the next few days, i think i nicer and nicer. we'll throw a few clouds in tomorrow's forecast but watch these forecast dew points and again, it measures the amount of surface moisture. the lower the number, the nicer it feels outside. drier it feels outside. dew points in the 50s. double thumbs up. but watch this. we're going to be draining those dew points, perhaps down into the 40s by this upcoming weekend. so even drier air is going to settle in. of course, it doesn't help the rain chances at all because we just in general, it's that nice fall-like air going to settle in. high pressure in control now with partly cloudy and pleasant conditions. back to the west, you see this little dash line. this is an

100% being the normal rainfall for these areas, lakeland is at 2%, 5% in bartow, heaven % of normal in newport richie, 5% in clearwater. obviously extremely dry in most of the bay area. there isn't much in the way of the forecast so you've got to get used to that. we had a wet summer, still few weeks. 69 degrees here, mostly clear skies. 24 hours ago, we had quite a few clouds at innisbrook. overcast but clear skies. 66 degrees in palm harbor with that wind at veterans ford. 69 degrees. the traffic is a little slow it looks like on the veterans expressway. no surprise people coming out of town headed home. in newport richie, 67 degrees with mostly clear skies and not much of a wind with a northwest breeze at 3 miles per hour. got an older picture here but it's still nice around the rocky point area. that looks much more like this evening's skies with clear conditions. at 9 pm, 64 degrees. 48 our forecast low. 78 degrees at 4 pm. with this cold front, down to the south we're feeling a little cooler and a little drier. we are feeling lower dew points making it feel just a little cooler. 68 degrees seminal, 68 degrees ne

clearwater 64. st. pete 69. same in bartow. 70 in bradenton and 68 degrees in winter haven. so we're quite lovely and the dew points too are nice down the 50s that means drier air when you see dew points in the 40s 50s that's a very comfortable level. we out we'll talk more about >>> hundreds of artist from all over the world are in venice for an art festival unlike anything you've ever z25eiz z16fz z25ehz z16fz y25ehy y16fy . >> artists from all over the world are in venice creating unique displace of three- what you can see at this weekend 's chalk festival. >>reporter: throughout the venice airport things are not as they seem. artists are using chalk in the form of paint drawing two dimensional images that pop out from the grounds. >> it's interesting how they can make it look 3d by just drawing you know by just drawing. >>reporter: this art form dates back to italy in the 1600s. these intricate drawings are carefully made from a certain va are meant to be enter active. >> they sit in there just kinds of like he's doing. >>reporter: this is an international spectacle. att

right now 66 brooksville and clearwater and 70 bradenton and 68 in bartow and 70 in avon park. titan doppler radar looks clear. not much in the way of rain. in fact no rain at all in the forecast as we head through the next several days. here's a look at florida's most accurate day planner you're going to wake up tomorrow morning to a very comfortable start once again with temperatures in the low 60s. by noon, seasonal temperatures remain -- about 80 and then remaining pleasant. guys? >>> thanks so much. what a stinky mess in largo. over 18,000 gallons of untreated west water overflowed from a manhole near overbrook and west bay drive into mckay creek. as a precaution, they're testing water at the creek and posted signs that say flow is back to normal since this happened on saturday. they are also reasewerring the public that there are no >>> early voting is now officially over in the state of florida. we're learning nearly 6 million people roughly half of the sunshine state's voters, have already cast a ballot. early numbers are indicating a close race in the bay area. donald

in bartow it was 48 this morning and 49 in clearwater and 39 in crystal river. but it's going to go even colder this evening. tight now we're going to take a look at current temperatures in fact our current temperatures are dropping in some areas colder than our early morning lows were this morning. so that just goes show you that we -- to show you that we are definitely going to have some cooler temperatures. right now it's 50 in plant city and 41 in crystal river. the cool spot 9 degrees right now -- 39 degrees right now in brooksville. this is the 24 hour temperature change. it's a double digit pretty much everywhere. now that doesn't mean that our minimums will be double digits but just shows that at this time yesterday, we were certainly a good amount warmer, now tomorrow morning our lows will be 50 in seminoleling and 54 st. pete -- and 54 in st. pete and 44 in tampa and 42 palm harbor. county, those are the cold spots with temperatures in the 30s expected in the early morning hours. you travel down south and inland, temperatures for the most part will be

a little cooler plant city 64. 67 in bartow. 64 in clearwater. now that the sun is coming up, the temperatures will start going up. 74 at 10:00 a.m. lunchtime, low 80s. mid-80s this afternoon. i'm not adding in rain chances today. but a 10% chance wednesday and thursday. friday 0% rain chance with a cold front that will cool us below for the weekend and don't forget to set back your clocks on sunday. >> don't forget that. city. 15 minutes through the ybor area. not too bad but starting to get slow. we have a big issue 275 outside of the camera here. we have a crash tying up lanes here. heavy southbound 275. it is actually heavy. here is a shot close tore hillsborough. what does that mean for you for the commute? over an hour delay down to i-4. you may want to try nebraska from. dale mabry and florida, again, depending where you're at. in my job, i see a lot of fires that could've been stopped before they started. that's why florida's firefighters support amendment 1. amendment 1 does solar the right way, commonsense safeguards for the health, saf

still some cool spots don't get me wrong 44 in brooksville, 57 in clearwater. 60 in sarasota, 52 in bartow and anywhere from 2 to 10 degrees cooler right now than forecast feeling like the perfect fall days cool mornings mild afternoons, on sunday an area of low pressure is going to develop off the east coast with this weakening front so not much of an impact but notice how it gets in here for monday, tuesday and wednesday. that's why i added in the 20% rain chances. today and all weekend long looking pretty night. >>> well the veterans expressway is flowing at good spes southbound. we're taking a look at these accidents, slow and go traffic westbound on i-4. i want to talk about this one in pinellas county at martin luther king also known as 9th street this is coming off the howard frankland bridge and you can see that the ramp is blocked. trying to clear this upkeep that in mind you can go down to the exit instead or around 4th, 4th is probably a better alternate for you. you can see the back up here to the exit. the crash is off camera but it is creating a little bit of a back up here n

bartow 67. a high today degrees in sarasota in the low 70s in st. pete and clearwater because of the golf temperature down to 64 degrees. we will have to start worrying about fog in the next few days. if you are thinking about taking a boat out into the weekend, that is something to keep in the back of your mind with upper 60s and low 70s river. now the clear skies and the afternoon sun warms things up beautifully. the winds will go northeast tomorrow and it will bring in some clouds. we have seen this over and over again. you get an easterly wind and then maybe even a shower in polk county. it is those showers that last five minutes. the overwhelming majority will 10% chance of a couple showers but no matter how you play this if you have family coming in or if you are on vacation now, the weather will be really beautiful with low 80s and so much for the cold air. even on wednesday we are back into the low 80s. back to palm harbor heading into citrus and hernando county dade city with zephyrhills and all about that 80 degree mark. polk county upper 70s and back to the

bartow. brandon is 50. 56 already in bradenton area. 51 in clearwater. we got down below freezing in panama city. they are back up to 36. 34 in trust me they are loving that 61 degree start. you've got cold start. mild finish. and to be honest, this map you see in front of you is not going to move much. over the next few days. high pressure in control. the next probably two more mornings are going to be on coolish side. then every day we're going to tack on at few degrees to the afternoon high temperature. so today, we'll be around 69 degrees. tons of sunshine. you're going to be out tonight once that sun goes down temperatures are quickly going to fall again. we'll go 47 in tampa tomorrow morning with upper 30s kind of scattered east and north of the area. and then for tomorrow, lovely sunshine. i mean probably get back up to around 75 degrees for tomorrow afternoon. which is perfect. but, we're not done there we will go 78 on wednesday. 79 on thanksgiving and then 80 for black friday. author those aeding out real early turkey trots thursday morning i t

clearwater. it's 75 at new port richey and crystal river right now is 74 degrees. but it's warmer inland. bartow already up to 83 degrees. now, here is the cooler weather we are tracking. it is across the northern tier of the country. right now 38 degrees in lincoln, nebraska. it's 29 degrees in international falls. so this cooler air will be moving southward as the cold front approaches our area moving through overnight into tomorrow. so high pressure right over georgia and a clockwise flow around the area of high pressure will bring us winds out of the east-northeast. that front eventually will push through our area. so high temps today ranging from the upper 70s into the low 80s. 83 davis island. brooksville 79 degrees for a high. really nice afternoon out there. no worries. no rain. hardly any clouds. so pleasant through the evening and just a few clouds overnight futurecast model. it shows increasing clouds for inland locations this evening, and it's showing maybe a teeny bit of moisture. i don't think that's going to hit the ground. for your friday evening plans, nice and dry. you can go o

that cool start. 72 in bradenton. 67 in west palm beachle. 66 in bartow. 60 in frostproof. 70 in sarasota and venice and 64 in clearwater. 58, a dew point of 30. remember last night a dew point of 62. so it is not just the temperature dropping, it is those dew point very dry air in place. winds out of the northwest 9 miles per hour. at least our winds are calming down a bit this they will go light as we head into the overnight hours. 61 apollo beach. 60 in st. pete. 54 for new clearwater. 55 in brooksville. 54 in inverness to the south. temperatures near that 60-degree mark. 63 in venice. 56 in north port. 62 in sebring. and 60 out in lake placid. the satellite and radar not a leaving clear skies behind it. by the way, cold air pouring into the northeast and we have warm waters over the great lakes over lake ontario and lake erie. cold air over it and a lot in the way of lake-effect snow. couple of feet of lake-effect snow. futurecast shows through the overnight hours and into the day tomorrow. high pressure continuing to work in so again a cold start to the day tomorrow. another cold start to the day likely once we get

goes along second half of the day associated with the cold front. 74 clearwater beach, largo 71, temple terrace 66, 64 brandon, 70 bartow, 65 brooksville, 64 -- weeki wachee, 76 frostproof. we've seen a high clouds and midlevel clouds in the sky. for the friday night blitz tomorrow mostly dry conditions, front passes, partly cloudy. cooling off, breezy for the final play. i keep having to remind myself it is already friday. as we go throughout the time period, a cold front approaches the area getting into the earlya temperatures, drier conditions as well once that wind switches to the northeast. so very early morning sprinkles saturday early part of the day but should end up a very nice weekend overall with temperatures we talked about and drier conditions are just to the north, super dry behind the front. we had thought earlier in the week that bright color would be over us. as a result we'd experience drier conditions, but it will still be a beautiful weekend, temps 80 degrees both saturday cooler sunday morning. don't forget the time change saturday night before you go to bed and next week looks pretty good, low 80s,

bartow 62, kathleen 59. it gets a lot cooler than that air for thanksgiving week, we have got you covered, 70 and cloudy at the airport in tampa yet clearwater and saint pete sunny. 6090 st. petersburg, a look at the satellite, a very dreary day, a lot of clouds overcast and with the overcast there have been light showers may be enough to wet the ground, most folks not even that much, behind in tomorrow, the rest of the week looks to be sunny, pleasant temperatures they be a little bit below normal for a change. a look at futurecast, mostly cottage in it, tomorrow morning some lingering clouds first thing in the morning, partly sunny, but by the afternoon clouds will push south and then comes high-pressure giving us sunny skies the rest of the it will be a dry front, it will usher in much cooler weather by next week, later sunday monday and into tuesday, probably not for things giving. forecast highs tuesday in the mid-70s across the area, we should be 78 or 79 for afternoon highs, this is below normal, we will stay in the same ballpark for most of the week between 75 and 78 degrees. long-range forecast a big colder air there is next monday,

bartow. that appears to be the warm spot. but still hanging on to 7s including st. pete, clearwater, brooksville. for the rest of the afternoon, paints out the chance of a couple of quick showers. but the showers will be difficult to come by this afternoon. if you get wet, it's not going to last long. partly cloudy and 84 this afternoon with clouds and sunshine. and temperatures slowly but surely start to head down, closer to average into the next five days. we will talk about the temperatures and when you can expect the next rain chance in a -- rain chance in a t. >>> three people are dead. the highway patrol says ronald green the second was traveling north on i-75 near brandon when he lost control of his car. he hit the guardrail and then a concrete wall and the car overturned and went off the side of the interstate and resting on the road near brandon underneath. one passenger was ejected and the car caught on fire. green's two children who were in the back of the car died onscene. and she is still in critical condition. >> sometimes you have an incident like that where it's just horrific but

clearwater on us 19 and whitney road. this is not blocking main lanes shoulder. police are on scene. we had an accident reported on 275 in hillsboro. coming up i will take you to bartow where we see fog and get you a drive time. >>> good morning and welcome to 10news this morning. i am 10news morning anchor ian reitz. new overnight, deadly storms and possible tornadoes hit the south and we know that three

clearwater, even up north crystal river 79. a beautiful day after a chilly river, low to mid 60s from saint pete to tampa, lakeland 59, bartow 61. that was the low this morning. tomorrow morning more of the same, lower 50s in the northern counties upper 40s always a possibility, in the cooler spots around brooksville. zephyrhills 51, lakeland 52, mid-50s east of i-75 closer to the coast closer to 60 or . the a cloud in the sky same thing friday. if you are heading over to the park for the rib fest it will be beautiful. always a great event, hot babes -- ribs and cooler temperatures, futurecast shows mostly clear skies may be a few clouds at times, not even close to yesterday, that goes into friday and saturday, maybe if you're looking for cooler air, you are a fan of the gfs because the week of thanksgiving the gfs is bringing in a colder shot of air for the us and maybe for the state of florida, something to keep an eye on. tonight dropping to clear skies and 59 degrees, hour by hour staying in the 50s and then we warm up near 80 degrees, a closer look at the weekend forecast coming up in the next talking about swing states to

clearwater has an 80 across our northern counties. >> and warmer temperatures once you get down in the sarasota, about 85 degrees right now. some 70s showing up. la bartow currently sits at 79 degrees. we've had the easterly wind for days upon days now. slowly bringing that moisture back across the state, so these dewpoints, they've been climbing up into the mid and upper 60s and some 70s starting to show up. so, yeah, it's starting to feela little bit on the muggy side outside and this is all kind of in advance of the cold front which will be pushing down acros the southeast and bringing the nice refreshing change for the week and the ridge of high pressure that's been dominating our weather for a couple of wees front here to push down into the southeast. you can see a lot of cloud cover with this front, and some scattered showers working their way up into the great lakes and then behind that that's where those cooler temperatures are. you can see a lot of warmth out ahead of it and then cooler and drier air. that's what's on tap as we head into the weekend. you can see that high just kind of breaks down as we go through the next couple of days. we sti

clearwater on us 19 and whitney road. this is not blocking main lanes shoulder. police are on scene. we had an accident reported on 275 in hillsboro. coming up i will take you to bartow where we see fog and get you a drive time. >>> good morning and welcome to 10news this morning. i am 10news morning anchor ian reitz. new overnight, deadly storms and possible tornadoes hit the south and we know that three overnight. there working to control the fire is burning in eastern tennessee. >>> president-elect trump said that people who burn the american flag should they still time. allison kropff is in the newsroom with this comment.>> people really get fired up over this and on both sides for and against. the big issue is what mister trump is proposing because is thissi flagburning back in 1984 to give you background, there was a protester who was at the 1984 republican national convention and he doused the flag and kerosene and lit it on fire and it caused a big uproar and turned into a case that made it to the supreme court. the court ruled that flagburning is indeed an act that is protected under the came right back with the flag protection act of 1989 which the higher c

a little bit cooler 58 in zephyrhills. 66 in bartow and tampa you're 4 degrees cooler than you were this time yesterday. clearwater 6 degrees cooler, bradenton 3 degrees cooler. the rest of the day the sun is up the temperatures will start to warm up, 73 at 10 a.m. noon 78, 82 at 3 in the afternoon back to 76 at 6. tomorrow i do add in a 20% rain chance with a weak cold typical congestion what we're seeing is southbound 275 down to about hillsborough avenue going to be hitting those brakes, all right let's take a look through ybor, a little bit slow and go, venice expressway not too bad. we do have an accident northbound on 275. what i showed you was the southbound traffic. northbound is slow and go approaching fowler. southbound i-75 coming away from the tampa we've got an accident and it is tying up as you're seeing delays right at that intersection. donald trump: i could stand in the middle of 5th avenue and shoot somebody and i wouldn't lose any voters, okay? and you can tell them to go f--- themselves! you know, you could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever... you gott