Tampa Cools to 71.6 Sunday Night After an 80-Percent Rain Day, With a Wet Monday and Thunderstorms Coded for Election Day
The station's live feed closes Tampa's rainy Sunday at 71.6 degrees under overcast skies, keeps Monday's rain chance at 66 percent, and holds Tuesday - Election Day - on a thunderstorms code as highs climb back to 84.9.
Tampa is cooling off after the wettest day of its week. The station's live weather feed put the temperature at 71.6 degrees at the Sunday-night check, feeling like 78.1 under an overcast code, at the end of a Sunday that topped out at 79.4, will bottom at 70.3 and carried an 80 percent rain chance on a heavy-rain code.
Monday stays wet: a high of 76.8, a low of 68.9 and rain chances of 66 percent. Tuesday then warms sharply to 84.9 - and the feed codes Election Day for thunderstorms, with rain chances of 39 percent, so Hillsborough voters heading to precinct polls and Lightning fans heading downtown that night may both want rain gear close.
The pattern breaks after midweek. Wednesday matches Tuesday's 84.9 high on a drizzle code with rain chances of 45 percent, then the chances collapse - 7 percent Thursday at 84.2, 2 percent Friday at 80.8, and 4 percent Saturday under a clear code, when the low falls to 59.6, the coolest night on the current feed.
