Here's your Tampa area forecast for late Friday into the weekend, with a preview of conditions next week.

  • Stronger onshore breeze
  • Increasing rain chances
  • Cloudy, wetter Sunday

We had a few more showers today compared to yesterday, but the drier air still had an impact with below average coverage across the region.

That will be changing this weekend as the pattern shifts. Skies will go between partly cloudy and mostly clear overnight into early Saturday morning, but there will be a few isolated showers coming in from the gulf, with the best rain chance toward sunrise.

Lows will be in the low 80s at the beach, with mid to upper 70s inland.

Saturday will start with a few showers along the coast in the morning. From that point, there will be a 40 percent coverage of scattered showers and storms the rest of the day, with all of them having an eastward movement inland and to the other side of the state by the evening.

Highs will be in the low 90s, but only upper 80s at the beach where winds will be breezier from the west.

A front is on the way which will push moisture back into our atmosphere, resulting in much higher rain chances for Sunday.

With that in mind, we’ll see increasing clouds Saturday night, with some scattered storms moving in from the north late.

Sunday will start with showers and storms on our coastline in the morning and spread out across the area throughout the day, with a slow diminishing through the late afternoon to evening. Highs will be lower due to the extra cloud cover and higher rain chance, mainly staying in the mid to upper 80s.

Monday will be the day the actual front moves into the area. It will not be a like a winter front where it will drop our temperatures, but it will tend to push the moisture farther south.

Wherever the front stalls it will be drier north of it and wetter south of it. While it’s too early to know the exact location it will move to, at this point it looks like the highest rain coverage will be from the Bay southward on Monday with less coverage north of the Bay.

There will also be a significant difference in high temperatures that day, with northern areas getting hotter with more sunshine and southern areas keeping more cloud cover and therefore staying a little cooler.

TROPICAL

No tropical development is expected through the weekend.

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