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Some Rain On Horizon For Late In Week

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By NEIL JOHNSON | The Tampa Tribune

Published: January 4, 2009

After days of carbon-copy weather, things may actually change toward the middle of this work week as a chilly front heads our way and even brings a chance for rain, something that's been scarce lately with less than 1.25 inches recorded at TIA in December.

There will be a chance for some patchy fog tonight and on your way to work Monday morning. If anything like today's fog, it should disappear not long after sunrise.

Here's how the weather service sees the next few days unfolding. The front approaches north Florida on Monday but that won't do much to the weather around Tampa. From Hernando County north, there's a small 20 percent chance of rain.

On Tuesday, the chilly front will be over the Gulf of Mexico but an area of high pressure over the Florida Straits will help create a wind from the southwest. That means warm, moist air flowing over the state with gusts topping 20 mph.

Tuesday night and Wednesday when the front actually arrives here offers the best chance for rain but forecasters don't expect any thunderstorms to come with the front. The rain will move from the northwest to the southeast.

Then things dry out on Thursday when slightly lower temperatures arrive. So far, the weather service isn't calling for any bone-chilling cold, mostly low 50s and high 40s around Tampa and maybe low 40s or high 30s around Hernando County.

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