Weather authority. Another time we have Greg rule to
uh kind of give us an update as to what
we're seeing right now. So Greg, what,
how's it with you right now? Yeah, thanks
so much guys. And I wanted to just quickly
recap landfall Milton last night around 830 unfortunately beautiful siesta
key. This is where me and my family enjoy
our beaches and it took a direct hit from Milton
at about 830 is powerful cat 320 mile per hour
. Hurricane Milton has since scooted off the east coast
and now has become post tropical with a stationary boundary
to the north and a weak cold front down to
the south. That's why we're pulling in some subtly
drier air from the north down to the south and
you can see the amount of widespread dry air across
our region and that's why we're dealing with such a
lovely weather pattern this afternoon. Happy to report that
will likely continue for the end of the work week
and into the start of the upcoming weekend. As
you can see, Milton's moisture pulls away, goes
down to the south. Dry air gets pulled in
from the north down to the south. That will
likely be the case through Saturday. A little bit
of available tropical moisture tries to work its way back
to the north overnight Saturday and it's a Sunday,
but it is certainly not looking like any sort of
typical rainy season weather pattern across our area. So
I wanted to quickly talk the tropics. Once again
, I wanted to address the rumors I did this
in my previous forecast, there is no developed storm
named Nadine. This is the problem with social media
these days is one or two people jump on board
with one deterministic model showing some sort of potential storm
day 10 or day 15. Now, which is
highly bogus. We shouldn't pay attention to those.
Unfortunately, it is skirting around social media. One
forecast model doesn't tell any sort of the whole story
. The current outlook, there are no immediate threats
to Florida and or the United States over the next
many, many days. Low development odds for an
Atlantic tropical wave that's well off the west coast of
Africa has only got a 20 to 30% chance information
store is stick with people you trust, stick with
the weather authority, stick with myself, stick with
Matt, stick with Juliana, stick with Zach,
stick with Lauren and stick with Nicky for all of
your updated weather forecasts information. And speaking about the
forecast. Well as of right now really is a
, a calm and a quiet day after a pretty
, just kind of stressful and breezy, windy,
just kind of a gnarly yesterday afternoon into the evening
hours. As of right now, wind sustained out
of the north northwest at about 10 to 15 MPH
. Breezy at times, this is what Milton is
currently located and where it's currently heading, it will
work its way out to the east and we will
remain under a northerly flow over the next couple of
days. Can't rule out one or two of the
spot. Little showers over the next 24 36 48
hours. But area wide, the majority of us
will enjoy a rather calm and quiet weather pattern.
Boy, we definitely deserve it over the last couple
of days. Waking up early tomorrow morning. If
you still don't have power, you have those windows
open, temperatures will be cooper falling into the lower
seventies area wide. Even a couple of upper sixties
in our northern inland communities late tomorrow morning through the
early afternoon. Not much to expect in terms of
weather, mostly sunny to partly cloudy skies should be
a rather calm and quiet way to end off the
work week as we still continue to pick up and
clean up after Middleton's mess from yesterday. Future expected
wind speeds over the next 24 hours will likely remain
sustained at about 10 to 15. So it will
be breezy at times but certainly nothing unbearable and then
gradually they'll start to transition more out of the north
and east overnight tonight. And through your tomorrow remaining
steady at about 10 to 15 MPH. That trend
will likely continue Friday night and into early Saturday afternoon
, highs tomorrow likely to return to the lower to
mid eighties. Eighties eight is the average. So
we're gonna be slightly below average. Happy to report
84 in Fort Myers, 85 in Lehigh, 84
in Babcock in 83 the Cape Sanibel and 82 to
our friends to the north in Port Charlotte, limited
opportunities for rain. Also happy to report over the
next 5 to 7 days. And as the Milton
has worked its way out of the area, it
essentially kind of limited our rain rainy season weather pattern
for the remainder of the season. I think Milton
was the final bang for rainy season. So it
went out with a huge bang and basically maybe a
couple of isolated spot showers over the next 5 to
7 days. But we are certainly not expecting rounds
of afternoon and evening scattered storms. Temperatures will be
pleasant in the up in the mornings, upper sixties
, lower seventies with afternoon highs steady in the mid
eighties. Hey, thanks for sticking with us week
news 4 p.m. Russ, Amanda and myself. We're
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