Our weather will not have anything to do with Hurricane Irma in the short term.
- Front stalls north
- Typical scattered storms
- Possible weekend effects from Irma
- Tracking Hurricane Irma
There is a cold front that will stall just to our north. That will help concentrate moisture in our atmosphere, which in turn, will result in a better coverage of scattered storms each of the next few days.
The storms will be scattered over the Gulf waters to begin with in the morning, followed by a transition to over land during the afternoon. The storms will tend to form along the sea breeze drifting in from the coast and have an eastward movement inland as the day goes along.
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The coverage of storms will be in the 40 percent range. Highs will be near 90.
That forecast will hold through Thursday. Then the storms will tend to move westward toward our side of the state at that time due to winds shifting and coming from the east.
Hurricane Irma will likely be between the Bahamas and Cuba by Saturday. After that it we expect it to make a north turn. That’s the difficult part of the forecast is trying to pin down when that north turn will happen and where Irma will be at that point in time.