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Morning Holds Fall's Promise

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By NEIL JOHNSON, The Tampa Tribune

Published: October 12, 2007

TAMPA - By the time you're reading this, fall should finally have arrived for its first, though brief, visit to the Tampa Bay area.

Forecasts call for the season's first noticeably cool weather to be securely in place by this morning when temperatures at Tampa International Airport should be in the middle 60s and near 60 inland. Mornings should stay below 70 degrees through the weekend.

For people in Hernando County, where the drier air along with the season's first cool front arrived Thursday afternoon, this morning should be in the lower 50s.

'Now it feels like fall,' said Rick Davis, National Weather Service meteorologist in Ruskin.

As daytime high temperatures push into the middle 80s each day without the cloying humidity, the afternoons won't seem as hot.
Forecasters expect the relative humidity to be about 30 percent today and less than 40 percent in the afternoon during the weekend, compared with more than 50 percent this week.

'People will notice that right away,' Davis said.

The first few cool fronts of the season don't linger, he said.

The seasonal weather should last through the weekend; then humidity will begin to creep back in and temperatures rise by the middle of the week.

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