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First Alert Weather: Local nor’easter: Wind, showers, high surf and tidal flooding begin today

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A few early morning showers, especially south of Jacksonville.

  • Local nor’easter conditions return today and linger into the weekend.
    • Scattered showers, especially along the coast, today/Fri./Sat AM
    • Winds will arrive by 7 AM for Brunswick and ~9 AM for Jacksonville
      • NE 10-20 mph. Gusts of 30+ mph today
      • Friday: NE 15-25 mph. Gusts: 40+ mph
    • Higher tidal levels today through the weekend will likely lead to widespread “moderate” levels of flooding along the coast/intracoastal/St. Johns River and its tributaries.
      • Flooding of 2-3 feet above normally dry ground where it occurs at times of high tide.
  • We generally dry up into Saturday with only an isolated shower. It will still be a bit breezy and mostly cloudy.
  • JAGS game on Sunday looks very nice in the upper 70s to near 80 degrees, mostly sunny with lower humidity.
  • Mostly sunny and dry for the first half of next week.

TROPICS:

  • (1) Tropical storm Jerry is over the Central Atlantic & will be just north/northeast of the Caribbean islands by early Fri. while veering more northward. Jerry stays far to the east of the U.S.
  • (2) Low pressure will develop east/northeast of Jax by Friday & may try to take on some subtropical characteristics while moving offshore of the eastern seaboard through the weekend.
  • Always more: “Talking the Tropics With Mike”.

TODAY: Mostly cloudy and turning breezy, scattered showers. HIGH: 81 (70s in the afternoon)

TONIGHT: Mostly cloudy & breezy, a few showers. LOW: 69

FRIDAY: Mostly cloudy and breezy, a few showers. 69/75

SATURDAY: Mostly cloudy. Isolated coastal shower, then dry and breezy. 65/79

SUNDAY: Mostly sunny with lower humidity. 57/80

MONDAY: Mostly sunny. 55/83

TUESDAY: Mostly sunny. 59/85

WEDNESDAY: Partly sunny. 60/86

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