Here's what you need to know about the Bay area weather for Monday:

  • Lingering storms tonight
  • Tuesday early storms at coast
  • Highest chances of rain shift inland in afternoon

Partly sunny skies with scattered showers and thunderstorms will continue into the evening. 

The sea breezes will continue to move inland bringing showers and storms over the interior counties. Some of the storms could be strong and produce locally heavy rain, lightning, and gusty winds. The chance of rain is 40%.

Tonight will become partly cloudy, mild, and muggy with isolated showers and thunderstorms lingering. Low temperatures will be in the upper 70s in Tampa Bay and the low 70s in our northern counties.

An area of high pressure across the central Florida peninsula moves slowly south tonight and Tuesday while a front stalls across the Southeast U.S.

Tuesday and Wednesday, the winds will shift to a more defined onshore west to southwest wind. This will allow for the rain and storm chances to start early at the coast. Then the showers and storms will shift eastward as the sea breeze pushes farther inland.

With westerly winds, daytime highs will be in the upper 80s at the coast to the low 90s inland, while overnight lows will remain in the mid 70s to 80 degrees.

In general with this pattern across the region we will see the highest rain chances over the interior and eastern portions of the Florida peninsula where the best sea breeze collision is expected late each day into the evening hours.

We should have enough moisture in place though to see isolated to scattered showers and thunderstorms over the eastern Gulf of Mexico late each night and some of this could affect coastal areas. Then as the mornings progress, more isolated to scattered showers and thunderstorms will develop across the coastal counties and become scattered to numerous as they move into the interior and eastern portions of the Florida peninsula during the afternoon and evening.

The rain chance is 30% to 40% for the rest of the week and into the 4th of July weekend.

High temperatures will be in the low 90s Thursday through Independence Day. Lows will be in the mid 70s to 80 degrees.