Cold front absorbs what remains of Tropical Rainstorm Sara, soaking the Southeast

The system that was Tropical Rainstorm Sara has merged with a cold front, sweeping east across the Florida Panhandle.

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00:00It's wet times there and then farther south again. We are tracking the we will call this still tropical rainstorm

00:07Sarah the thing down in the gulf near the center of some of these clusters of lightning strikes here

00:14It's really two separate features on the map here working with one another to bring

00:18Some disruptive weather the bigger driver over land is certainly a cold front, but that's being

00:24this tropical system

00:26Former tropical storm Sarah is being absorbed by the front and it's going to be just

00:31Basically nudged east pretty quickly right into Florida tomorrow

00:34So let's take a look at the overall big picture here as this front is moving and it's scooping up Sarah

00:41So tropical rainstorm Sarah is accelerating in its eastward movement. And again, this is no longer bringing much wind out there

00:47It's really a swirl of low pressure. That's being driven east by the overall flow in the gulf and look at all that

00:54This is shutting down the tropical systems season here in the gulf with such strong flow from the north

01:00Look at those wind stream lines

01:01But you can also see this consolidated zone of low pressure kind of swirling about there

01:05Southwest of Tampa and that is the center of circulation of former tropical storm Sarah

01:10So we're calling this tropical rainstorm Sarah bringing us some heavy rain down into Tampa down into Fort Myers and Naples tomorrow morning

01:17Now you need to be up

01:19Within maybe a hundred miles of Tampa to find an inch or more of rain out of this one

01:22But we're gonna look at two to four inches of rain

01:24For the panhandle and the wind is less of a factor

01:28Maybe maybe a gust of 40 miles per hour with one of these squalls as they come on in

01:33But into Wednesday a lot of this moves east

01:35How are we doing compared to average historical averages for this time of the year?

01:39Well, we are running about seven above average in Atlanta precisely normal tomorrow in in Nashville

01:45Right around average in Little Rock Jackson in New Orleans

01:48Tampa looks right around average

01:49But Miami two degrees above Jacksonville is one of the warm spots and we look at Raleigh ahead of the front ten degrees warmer

01:55Than we typically would be this time of the year, but don't get used to it

01:58We've got a strong front and once that front kicks through the chill will follow turning much colder out there

02:04So again, just a quick refocus of the big story tonight heavy rain in the Florida panhandle