ORLANDO, Fla. —  The very busy tropics has some a little uneasy, but right now, Florida is not in the crosshairs of any Atlantic storm.

A ridge of high pressure over the state, and a stream of thin clouds from a disturbance in the Caribbean will keep us fairly quiet storm-wise overnight, and is also expected to help steer Hurricane Florence toward the Carolinas later this week.

As Florence moves closer to the U.S., it’ll drag drier air down across the peninsula and keep our rain and rumble chances very low for the rest of the week.

We’ll have plenty of sunshine around for our Wednesday, with rain coverage at only 30 percent. The dry air really invades Thursday and Friday with rain coverage down to 20 percent. A mostly sunny sky takes us from Thursday into the weekend.

As we lower rain chances, we’ll bring up temps. Highs top the lower 90s in most central Florida locations with a feels like temp around 100 over the next five days.

We’ll see wave heights increase and possible coastal flood issues in Flagler County, but the bigger story locally will be drier air wrapping around Florence and across the peninsula.

A coastal flood advisory is in effect from Flagler County north along the southeastern U.S. coastline, as high surf, crashing waves, and a high rip current threat keep the east coast waters dangerous the rest of this week.

If you’re swimming, do so near an open lifeguard stand and heed any warnings to get out of the water. Wave heights climb over four to seven feet Wednesday and even higher Thursday.

TROPICAL UPDATE

Florence is flourishing as a category 4 hurricane and will go through fluctuations in intensity as it moves west-northwest. Recent models are slowing the storm down, so landfall may not be until Friday morning.

Florence continues moving west-northwest and models are coming into better agreement on landfall somewhere along the North or South Carolina coast very early Friday morning.

Elsewhere in the tropics, Isaac is moving toward the Caribbean, but is forecast to encounter wind shear and weaken. Helene is turning north and two other Atlantic disturbances continue to struggle, but are being monitored.

Atlantic hurricane season peaks in September and runs through Nov. 30.

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