First Alert Weather Day: Evening storms could be strong to severe

This morning you’ll run into those storms going west on I-10 approaching the Panhandle or heading north on I-75 into Georgia and then they will make their way eastward through the afternoon.

“Roughly 3 and 5 pm for the I-95 corridor. That would include of course much of metro Jacksonville, north to Yulee, south to Green Cove Springs and then reaching the Intracoastal and the beaches between approximately 3:45 and 6 pm give or take”, Buresh said.

INTERACTIVE RADAR: Keep track of the rain as it moves through your neighborhood

All areas will get some rain today and the primary threat is damaging winds, but a isolated brief tornado is not completely out of the picture.

Skies clear out and temperatures and humidity fall for Friday and into the weekend. There is a possibility of scattered showers on Saturday from an upper-level disturbance that’ll be near the I-4 corridor in central Florida.

Here’s what you can expect into this evening:

• The strongest storms so far have been over inland Southeast Georgia in Waycross & Blackshear
• Heavy rain & scattered storms will spread across most of Northeast Florida impacting the late afternoon commute
• At least some rain everywhere at one time or another with amounts averaging near one inch up to two inches in a few places
• Isolated to widely scattered severe storms could produce damaging winds and/or an isolated tornado
• Thursday’s rain could boost Jacksonville into the top five wettest March’s on record — a month that’s already more than three times above the average March rainfall
• Even without storms, winds today have gusted to between 49 & 50 m.p.h. Temperatures are pushing above 80 degrees. Warm/humid air is helping fuel the storms
• This is the same storm system that’s produced severe weather the last couple of days over the southern plains, gulf coast, Tennessee & Ohio valley’s and the fatal tornado early Thursday morning in the Florida panhandle as well as snow on the cold side over the Midwest & Great Lakes.
• Locally, rain Thursday night will diminish/end after midnight. The severe threat looks to diminish by 7 p.m. to8 p.m.

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But overall the pattern looks dry and mild with comfortable humidity through the weekend.

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