Welcome to Friday! A light breeze this morning and high humidity is helping some fog and low clouds develop across southwest Florida. Visibilities are down near 5 miles in Fort Myers and Naples; in Charlotte County, the visibility is just a quarter mile at the Charlotte County Airport in Punta Gorda. The low clouds and fog will burn off as we head toward mid morning giving way to a partly cloudy to mostly sunny sky. Again today with enough moisture around and a weak upper level disturbance moving overhead, there will be a few isolated storms well east of I-75 by late afternoon. In fact, one storm yesterday managed to drop about two inches of rain in Clewiston! It's a similar story today.
Over the weekend, drier air pushes in aloft and this should cut off the chance of rain for tomorrow. Mostly sunny on Saturday after some morning fog with highs near 90. For Mother's Day, we'll squeak a weak cold front through -- rather than a "cold" front, we could more accurately call this a "dewpoint front;" it will lower the humidity a bit for Sunday afternoon and most of next week. It remains hot though with highs near 90!
That front will usher in some important wind changes for about 24-36 hours across the northern Gulf that could impact the future travels of the Gulf oil slick. More on that later!
Brian
