00:00You can see where the cold front has been. Nashville continuing to see those temperatures
00:03drop. Meanwhile, closer to the coast, we're not quite there yet, but here's what things
00:07look like tomorrow. It's going to be a big contrast. Get ready. How you dress today?
00:12Not how you're going to want to dress tomorrow afternoon. We're talking 15 to 30 degrees
00:17lower as far as our temperatures compared to right now, but we do have an elevated fire danger.
00:23Here's the thing. The front, it didn't bring a lot of rain for us. We have very dry conditions.
00:28We have a lot of drought. I'll show you the map here in a minute, but all of those things
00:31together, the lingering wind, it creates that elevated fire risk. Some of you even in that
00:36high risk area. So just keep in mind precautions that we tend to have to take every year, spring,
00:42summer. You don't want to accidentally spark something. We'll take a look at future radar
00:46and clouds though, because while it's a little overdone here, it does give me an idea that
00:50we are seeing some showers. It's just not enough to really help us out much. It's definitely
00:55not the impact that we've seen further to the north. Now throughout the weekend, we will see
00:59some action into Florida, just some scattered rain and thunderstorms. It's kind of the typical
01:03status quo, right? We continue on through Saturday, Sunday. There's more where that came from,
01:08especially for South Florida, as we focus in on Sunday, places like Miami, seeing even some
01:12isolated downpours at times. So just something to be prepared for. Not the rain that we need though,
01:18because take a look, our drought conditions, it is not good in Florida. We are in the top
01:22three categories from Orlando to Tallahassee. And what you're seeing here, these percentages,
01:29it's looking at how much rainfall we would typically have at this point in the season
01:33or this point in the year, really. And what we've actually seen less than 50% of the rainfall that
01:39we
01:40would usually have at this point in March. So yes, it's the dry season in Florida, but it is much
01:44drier
01:45than usual. And it's leading to this right here. There's the actual maps. You can see the severe,
01:49extreme and exceptional categories, but the whole Southeast, pretty much a few exceptions here and
01:53there, is facing some sort of drought, leads to the dry conditions and the fire danger that I
01:58mentioned. As we look at the weekend as a whole, one other thing that you want to keep an eye
02:02out
02:02for, especially if you're heading to the beach on the East Coast there, well, we have some onshore
02:06wind that's going to create rough surf, rip current risk, especially if you are heading to beaches
02:11you're unfamiliar with. And don't we're kind of at the tail end of spring break. Most of you have already
02:15been on your spring break trip if you're taking one, but you want to make sure you're paying
02:19attention to lifeguards, any local alerts for that rip current risk, very dangerous. And we've
02:23already seen issues. We look at the weekend as a whole. It's all about the rebound. Nashville,
02:27we get back into the seventies by Sunday, Tampa. You're the exception, but you know what, Florida,
02:32you tend to be a little different than the rest of the Southeast with your pattern. Sometimes
02:35taking a look at Nashville, we look at the seven days ahead. Well, a little bit of a roller coaster,
02:41sixties, seventies, eighties, and then bouncing back down to the seventies with plenty of rain chances.
02:45So watch out, especially for those thunderstorms mid to late next week.
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