Good morning! The disturbance off the west coast of Florida remains a tropical depression as of 8 AM. It is fairly poorly organized, with wind just dropped on this advisory to 30 mph. We still think there's a chance for this to become a tropical storm, though, as it moves to the northwest over the next 36 hours or so before landfall.
Showers are scraping our coastline this morning, particularly the Lee Island coast and Charlotte County. Expect showers and storms to become more numerous along and west of I-75 later this morning and into this afternoon. Farther inland, drier air is moving in from northeast Florida and that should limit the chances of rain inland this afternoon into the scattered (or even isolated) category.
Brian
