Here's what you need to know about Tampa Bay area weather for the overnight hours heading into Saturday:

  • Hot again, afternoon temperatures in 90s
  • 40 percent rain chances
  • Tropical low near Cuba

Showers and storms moved westward across the area late this afternoon into this evening. Any lingering showers will also move west into the gulf, with clearing conditions overnight into early Saturday.

Morning lows will be in the mid to upper 70s.

The same pattern we saw the past couple days will be the one we see this weekend.

Winds will blow from the east, with any showers and storms coming from the other side of the state and moving through our area in the afternoon to early evening.The best coverage of storms in this type of pattern is near our coastal areas as the storms move out into the gulf.

Otherwise, you can expect partly sunny skies this weekend with continued summer highs in the low to mid 90s. The breeze will make for rougher than normal boating conditions at times in the Gulf.

We continue to watch a broad area of low pressure associated with a tropical wave between the southeastern Bahamas and the northeastern coast of Cuba.

We will continue to monitor this area through the weekend. Regardless of development, rain coverage will increase during the weekend and early next week across Florida. We will keep you posted with our regular Tropical Update.

It’s moving west-northwest. If the system can survive and move through the Florida Straits and into the Gulf of Mexico, conditions could become more favorable for development over the weekend or early next week.

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