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Most of the steady rain will be confined to the southern coastline on Saturday and Sunday. Highs each afternoon bounce back into the low 80s.

Storms turn more isolated this weekend ahead of a potential tropical system

Hi, everyone. Meteorologist Anthony Baglione here with our forecast as we head through the remainder of our weekend and then turning our attention to a potential system into early next week. So we do have a lot to talk about here. Upper sixties though is where we're headed tonight. I think we'll wake up feeling pretty mild across the area, maybe a little bit muggy but overall really not too bad, mostly cloudy skies for us tonight and early tomorrow morning. And then I do think we'll see some peaks of sunshine through our Sunday. Very similar to what we saw here to start the weekend. Here's featurecast though. So maybe a spotty shower into tonight. Not a lot of coverage though. We'll wake up on our Sunday morning. Generally quiet again. There could be just a Sprinkle or two for our far southern counties, but most of us are pretty quiet. There's a look as we head through the early afternoon, I'm gonna pause this at lunchtime, lunch plans should be fine and then we get through the early to late part of the afternoon. That's when we could see some showers, maybe an isolated thunderstorm trying to pop up coverage is about 40%. So it's very similar here to what we saw for the most part on our Saturday. Then our attention turns there, there's our next potential big weather maker coming in in the form of some rain, some blustery conditions and just kind of a messy couple of days in the forecast, probably Monday afternoon through potentially Wednesday or so, especially along the coast. It is not gonna be a good couple of beach days. Unfortunately. So I know that's not the best news, but that's kind of what we're looking at here with this system. There's a look, Monday afternoon, the rain starts to push in for our eastern counties and then fills in especially Monday night, early Tuesday morning. It's a center of low pressure that's gonna try and get going. It could take on a tropical depression, tropical storm characteristic. That's something we'll watch the impacts at this point. Don't necessarily look like they would change. It just may be a little bit breezier in some spots if that classification goes up to a tropical storm, but we'll watch that closely early next week. There are no indications right now that we would see a strong hurricane or anything like that. If that changes though, I'll let you know we go to 80 degrees there on Sunday, 73 Monday, 77 on Tuesday, unsettled for us, but no day is a total washout except probably Monday night. There will be a wash out and then we get into Thursday, Friday, Saturday. Just some scattered storm chances still are with us through early next weekend.

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