· Fantastic weather through tonight with a warm late summer day and warm summer evening. Humidity trends will be on the increase for especially later tonight and tomorrow Thursday lasting into part of Friday.

· It will be another warm day Thursday with dew points on the rise and cold front getting ready to sink slowly southeast across our region. This will set up the trends for increasing chances for showers starting late morning far northern areas Thursday and eventually spread across most of the state in the afternoon and evening.

· Showers and a few isolated thunderstorms cells will be in the mix also on Friday with slightly cooler conditions.

· By later Friday afternoon most of the action will have shifted to our east with high pressure beginning to trek in from the southern Canada and the Great Lakes setting up a fantastic weekend of dry and good project weather.

· The Atlantic Tropics are active – all eyes on a developing area of low pressure which could spin up into a problematical situation for Florida and later a potentially powerful system in the open Gulf of Mexico and with a U.S. landfall anywhere from Florida Panhandle to east Texas. – All speculation at this point. This would be a week plus out.

TODAY: Pick of the week. Mostly sunny. Warmer. A high around 85. Southwest breeze about 10 mph. (5)

TONIGHT: High cloudiness otherwise fair and partially moonlit. More muggy with a low in the lower 60s. Light southwest winds. (5)

THURSDAY: Becoming partly to mostly cloudy. A rising chance for showers, mainly northern areas. Warmer, more humid and breezy in the afternoon. A high in the mid 80s.South to southwest breeze 10 to 25 mph.(4)

Looking further ahead…

THURSDAY NIGHT: Cloudy. A good chance for showers, maybe a rumble of thunder or two especially northern areas. Sticky with a low 65 to 70. (3)

FRIDAY: More clouds than sun in the morning. Widely scattered showers, maybe a few thunderstorms, then partial clearing late in the afternoon. A high in the lower 80s. (2)

SATURDAY: Partly sunny. A low in the upper 50s. A high in the mid 70s. (2)

SUNDAY: Mixed clouds and sun. A low in the mid 50s. A high 80 to 85. (2)

MONDAY: Mostly cloudy. Chance for showers and possibly a thunderstorm. A low in the 60s. A high in the low to mid 80s. (2)

TUESDAY: Chance for a morning shower, then partial afternoon sun. A low in the mid 60s. A high in the in the 70s. (2)

Average lows mid 50s. Normal high mid 70s.

(Confidence factor: 5 = Good predictability 1 = shaky modeling lowered confidence)

RH/8-24 [end]