After a week of heavy rain with more on the way, it won't take much to trigger localized flooding in poor drainage areas, streams and creeks.
Places that have been hard-hit the past few days run the greatest threat, but the chance for rain today is an areawide 70 percent. One to 3 inches of rain may fall in spots today with two-day totals potentially over 4 to 6 inches localized within the watch area.
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Places that have been hard-hit the past few days run the greatest threat, but the chance for rain this evening is high for everyone. Another one to three inches of rain have accumulated in areas over the last 24 hours, with two-day totals potentially over 4 to 6 inches in spots. Plenty of moisture will be streaming in from the southwest overnight and later today as an old frontal boundary is pulled slowly down the peninsula. This system does have some drier air behind it, but we won't fully feel the effects of it until Thursday when the rain chances drop to about 40 percent.
We saw scattered showers and isolated thunderstorms last evening. Most activity traveled from west to east across the peninsula. Some of the storms were strong with gusty winds and frequent lightning in addition to torrential downpours. Showers have slowly weakened, and by midnight we will be left with mostly cloudy skies with a small chance for some lingering light rain and some misty fog developing during the early morning hours. Morning lows will fall into the lower to middle 70s early this morning. With the front still draped over the central peninsula today, we are expecting cloudy skies and a high chance for rain. Temperatures are expected to climb into the middle to upper 80s Wednesday afternoon.
High pressure will push the front south Central Florida on Thursday allowing some drier air to build in but only temporarily. This will help scale back the rain chances to 40 percent through Friday. The break from the rain will be short-lived. We'll be tracking another front by late Friday and Saturday, which will bring in another round of numerous showers and storms for the first half of the weekend. The long-range outlook shows that the air behind this front will be noticeably drier, and once that arrives, we'll see a more meaningful end to the high rain chances beginning Sunday.
The tropics remain quiet with no chance for tropical storm formation in the next 24 hours.
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