Wednesday brings scattered storms and mostly cloudy skies

High temperatures will stretch into the upper 80s and lower 90s under mostly cloudy skies. Ample humidity will still make our “feels like” temperatures max out in the upper 90s during peak heating. Boaters will be met with excellent water conditions, given they can dodge Wednesday’s storms in the afternoon and evening. One- to 2-foot Gulf wave heights are forecast with a light chop in our bays.

Scattered thunderstorms are expected across Southwest Florida on Wednesday. Isolated showers and storms will begin forming in the early afternoon. These will remain on the weaker side before growing in size and scale into the late afternoon and evening. Severe weather is not expected, although isolated flooding, damaging winds, and lightning will be possible with the strongest storms.

All of these showers should weaken and disappear by late Wednesday night. Scattered storm chances will return to Thursday’s forecast before a cold front takes away all of our rain chances by Friday.

Tropical Storm Karl is the only active named storm in the Atlantic Ocean. Karl is no threat to Southwest Florida! It is located in the far Southwest Gulf of Mexico and will likely maintain its tropical storm status as it makes landfall in Mexico on Friday or Saturday. The Weather Authority is no tracking any additional disturbances in the Atlantic at this time.