SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) – The final week of meteorological summer will be summery with highs in the 30s, the possibility of late day thunderstorms, and heat indices in the triple digits. We will once again see the collision of the west coast sea breeze with the general easterly winds and the inland east coast sea breeze. In this convergence of disparate winds, we will see convergence and the development of storms. With sufficient moisture in the atmosphere, we will see heavy rain at times. These storms will move very slowly west toward the coast and could dump as much as 2 to 3 inches of rainfall where the storms develop and move slowly.
Wednesday will be a little less humid, but we’ll still see isolated late-day thunderstorms, with a similar setup to that described above. This pattern will continue through Friday, and then deeper tropical moisture will move in, increasing our chance of rain for Labor Day weekend. While we’ll still see mostly late-day thunderstorms, they could bring a little more precipitation and intensity.
Labor Day is likely to continue in a similar fashion, with partly cloudy skies for most of the day and a few large storms forming late in the day that will move toward the coast in the early evening hours.
Boaters can expect fair weather most of the day, but watch for a few showers and thunderstorms, especially after 5 p.m. Seas will be less than 2 feet high.
The peak of hurricane season is officially September 10th and it looks like the tropics will soon be awakening. Both European and American forecast models show that a system could form east of the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean by this time next week. The National Hurricane Center now gives it a 20 percent chance of developing in the next 7 days.
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