00:00Here's the overall setup for the next couple of days here across the state of Florida.
00:04For central and southern parts of the state, especially the west coast,
00:07we're going to be watching out for elevated fire danger.
00:09It's going to be dry and it's going to be windy.
00:12And when you get that combination of those two things,
00:14that right there is going to be the result.
00:16And it's going to stay that way for the next couple of days.
00:19Here's the overall setup for Wednesday.
00:21Warm and dry across the southeast in Florida.
00:23For the rest of the region, you can see widespread showers and thunderstorms in the forecast.
00:28But once again, heading into Thursday, almost rinse and repeat.
00:32Warm and dry across the southeast in Florida.
00:34More showers, more storms there for the rest of the region.
00:37Even as we end up Friday, you can see that the rain chances won't be as pronounced, not as widespread.
00:42The warmth will slowly start to inch its way to the north.
00:45But still, across Florida, it'll stay warm, it'll stay dry.
00:49How warm will it get?
00:50Well, as the heat builds there across especially the west coast of Florida,
00:53we will be watching out for some areas within range of record highs there on Wednesday.
00:58So we will be watching that very closely.
01:01And across the rest of the region there on Wednesday, you'll see some rain-cooled 70s to the north
01:05and widespread 80s, even some 90s here for the rest of the region.
01:09But as we head into Thursday, Fort Myers, Tampa, looks like we will tie a record high temperature there on Thursday.
01:16Punta Gorda, look at that.
01:18Looks like we'll set a record high temperature there on Thursday.
01:21So it's going to be a very warm forecast here for the foreseeable future.
01:25Even on Thursday there, look at that.
01:26We'll see some, yes, rain-cooled 70s to the north, widespread 80s, and yes, even some 90s there,
01:32especially across the west coast of Florida, including Tampa and St. Petersburg.
01:35Even as we head into Friday, once again, 90s, even hotter in Tampa and St. Petersburg.
01:41So it's going to be a very hot forecast here for this region going forward.
01:45So this is going to be one of the main weather stories that we are going to be tracking here going forward.
