The risk for storms will remain present this weekend in South Florida, although it’s not expected to be as wet as we have seen it the last couple of days.
This Saturday, expect mostly dry conditions with a blend of sun and clouds during the morning hours. Then for the afternoon, scattered showers and thunderstorms are expected to develop, especially across inland areas and in Broward County given a wind out of the southeast. That warm air flow will allow for temperatures to surge above average once again into the low to mid 90s.
The wind direction will shift some more on Sunday, becoming more out of the east-southeast. Temperatures once again will be hot with highs in the low to mid 90s and feels-like temperatures in the triple digits. Sunday’s weather will feature our typical, summer pattern with a few morning showers then afternoon inland thunderstorms. Rain chances both days this weekend will be at 40%.
Those chances do rise next week, however, as more moisture is expected to surge into Florida with weak winds out of the southeast. Expect times of showers and storms, especially on Tuesday through Friday.
In the tropics, we continue to monitor Hurricane Earl. The storm is racing off to the northeast over the North Atlantic Ocean, well east from the US and Canada. The National Hurricane Center is forecasting the storm to become a remnant low or post-tropical storm Saturday afternoon. Earl no longer poses a direct threat to land but it is fueling some larger waves and a high rip current risk along much of the U.S. East Coast, however.
Meanwhile over Africa, there is a tropical wave that is forecast to move off the west coast of Africa on Monday. This wave has a low, 30% chance of developing within the next 5 days.