it's 82 weeki clearwater. that's where most of the activity is. drier air to the north. dry air high above and that's limiting the amount of shower activity and the southern part of the state seeing most of the action. tropical storm carl and lisa are both there. no consequence, well out to sea. this area has a 20% chance of possible development as it moves off to the west. the fsu seminoles in town to play our bulls. partly cloudy and warm. the temperatures will rise as this game goes along. the bucs have their home opener. the l.a. rams are in town. expect a warm one. no surprise to you bucs fans obviously. we saw an isolated shower developing in hillsborough county. not likely for most. saturday morning, lots of sun to start the rain chances lower than normal at 20% thanks to the same dry air i referenced. sunday the chance does rise to 30% with a high of 90 degrees. 40% chance for monday and tuesday this would be above our average for late september. showers and thunderstorms near sea breeze -- we'll see a few as we get into october. >> i'm canceling my plans to >> i

thunderstorm, but like today they'll be widely spread. 81 degrees in brandon, 85 clearwater beach, 83 seminole, 84 weeki wachee 81, 80 dade city and brooksville. high pressure continues to be the big sur face feature, that and drier air -- surface feature, that and drier air high above in the atmosphere. most of the stuff midweek was down across south florida but quiet tonight. rain chances could be higher as a result of deeper atmospheric moisture. next five days about a 30% chance of this area for development. most of the computer models want to carry it directly west, watch, a 10% chance in the next five days for this area, likely move to the northwest and this region about a 90% chance over a five day period wandering off to the northwest, could become a compression. football forecast, northern illinois in town to play usf, 83 degrees for this one saturday. that game played in tampa, hit and miss shower maybe possible but not for the whole game. uk and the gators playing up in gainesville saturday at 3:30, 91 degrees. it's hot in florida this time of year. down atlantic and the u, 84 degrees, a 40%

clearwater beach. river view, treasure island, 80. 75 in brooksville. bar toe, upper 70s . same story in weeki wachee. in the tropics, next five days, about a 20% chance of development for this little tropical wave here. forecast continue to move to the west. that is over a five day period. we will continue to keep an eye on it. for the moment, happy to report nothing upstream. we still have the leftovers of hermine, a tropical storm. now. you can see on the counterclock wise circulation moving in, that strong on shore flow into places like the outer banks of north carolina. pass quickly over the state of south carolina. shot quickly up to the notice throughout the day. we have seen the tail end of that trail some heavy rain shower. we saw five inches of rain in parts of pasco county as a result of the heavy rain. measured tha in land o' lakes. new port richey had four inches of rain as well. that's the traffic it slows down for hermine. causing some labor day havoc there in terms of the weather. >>> football forecast. got to love this. towson state. umass and the gators playing in the swamp.

pinellas park, and clearwater both sitting 88 along palm harbor because of rain you're currently sitting a 81. weeki wachee 89. very warm to our south, 91 for lakewood ranch. myakka city. sarasota currently checks in at 88 degrees. and then, mid to upper 80s with a couple of 90s showing up throughout interior as well. a view across the state. you can see there is which was once a tropical storm julia now state help to provide that focal zone for some of these scattered showers. this system is just going to meander as we go through next several days watch it on forecast here. you can see it drifts back and forth eventually towards north. but stays a depression most convection staying well off shore. so they are not going to see flooding rains which were once feared across carolina coastline pick up an inch or two of rain as we go through next couple of days. watch it there, just start to get back into more and southeast erlt wind scattered showers starting to come more towards the afternoon hours, as we head towards the weekend. so forecast for today. hot, steamy, some scattered storms mainly to our

clearwater. plant city good morning. had patchy fog earlier at 81. 80 in land o lakes. 81 in weeki wachee. inverness near 80 and above. sarasota at 82. north port at 81. hop over to highland county. 81 in sebring and 82 in fr frostproof. with the humidity factored in on this september day, it feels like the 90s for some of us this morning, and big-time humidity this afternoon until we bring in some rain. sky tower radar showing the closest rain not over land, but gathering across the western atlantic waters. where the rain will start on coast but not until late this afternoon. and do want to point out, a little wirl. weak area of low pressure moving away from cuba and away from our state will not develop tropically. we developed drier air aloft limiting -- or has limited our rain chances. the red shade though, eroding some so we would expect at least few more storms but not until the second half of the day. until then, we just climb to which is 2 degrees shy of record-breaking. at least no records yesterday we tied one 95. 6 p.m. storms will be developing. here it is on futurecast. here is lunchtime still dry. here 1: