You won't find much need for sunscreen this week.
Some sun may poke through the clouds this afternoon, but overcast skies will be more the norm through the workweek with the sun coming out occasionally.
And with the clouds will come at least a slight chance for rain most of the week, forecasters say.
Despite the clouds, temperatures are forecast to reach the lower 80s this week, the National Weather Service says, rising 7 degrees or so above normal for early December.
However, the temperatures won't approach the record of 86 degrees for Tampa on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Nights will be 15 degrees or more above normal until the end of the week.
Even a cold front coming in Wednesday and Thursday won't bring any seriously cool weather, dropping temperatures back to about where they should be.
Forecasters expect the front to move through the Nature Coast on Wednesday and shuffle through the Tampa Bay area on Thursday morning. It will stall before moving far enough for much of the cooler, drier air behind it to reach the region.
The passing front will bring the best chance for rain and possible thunderstorms, but the weather service at this point is not calling for any severe storms from the frontal passage.
Another cool front should move through West Central Florida on Friday and bring another possibility of thunderstorms.
Temperatures behind that front will again bring us back only to the normal of low 70s in the afternoons.
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