Monday finished with plenty of rain being dumped on most of Central Florida, as many counties saw flood advisories. More showers and thunderstorms are expected Tuesday.
In the Northern Hemisphere, we have entered the Dog Days of Summer, when weather conditions remain hot and humid, with little change from day to day. Of course in Central Florida, we have the addition of afternoon showers and thunderstorms each day. The Ancients referred to the hot and sultry days of summer as the dog days and associated the hot weather with the star Sirius. They considered Sirius to be the "Dog Star" because it is the brightest star in the constellation Canis Major, meaning the Large Dog. Sirius is also the brightest star in the night sky and the Ancients believed its brightness added extra heat to the summer days. We also know in Central Florida, it is not just the heat, but how it all feels because of the humidity.
Hot and humid conditions will continue unchecked in the forecast for the next seven days. Large-scale weather features will continue to promote the daily occurrence of showers and thunderstorms along the developing and inland-moving east and west coast sea breeze boundaries. Thunderstorms that develop each afternoon over the next week will continue into the evening hours, before winding down and generally dissipating as temperatures slowly drop into the mid-70s overnight. Partly cloudy skies are in the forecast this week for the overnight hours with the possibility of patch fog formation each morning by sunrise where winds are light to calm.
We'll be looking at the same sultry weather pattern to continue for the next seven days with afternoon high temperatures in the upper-80s to near 90 degrees along the coast and the low- to mid-90s inland. Rain chances each day averaging out to 50 percent for the area, with the daily threat for frequent lightning, damaging wind gusts, small hail and localized flooding due to slow movement of thunderstorms.
In the tropics, Tropical Depression 2 formed more than 1,100 miles east of the Lesser Antilles. The tropical depression is expected to continue moving to the west for the next few days, but it is not expected to strengthen much and will likely dissipate in the next 72 hours before it reaches the Caribbean Sea.
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