ORLANDO, Fla. — Drier air aloft cut moisture available for scattered showers and storms Tuesday, as most of us stayed rain-free.

A disturbance off the Carolina coastline continues drifting north, bringing our flow around from the south-southeast and pulling slightly drier air into the mid-levels of the atmosphere. Any isolated showers come to a quick end, although we’ll keep a slight chance in at the coast overnight.

A fairly dry stretch of weather can be expected from Wednesday into early next week, with daily rain coverage at only 20 to 30-percent. We’ll monitor the progress of a front next Monday night that may help us bring shower and storm coverage back up again.

As far as highs, we are keeping the summerlike heat around. Temps top the upper 80s to lower 90s over the next several days, which is a handful of degrees above seasonable levels for late September. If next week’s front makes it into Central Florida, our highs could dip into the low to mid-80s.

An easing east-northeast swell mix and wave heights around two to three feet, occasionally higher, will create an overall poor to fair surfcast Wednesday.

Swells will be large enough to create a moderate rip current risk, so use extra caution if swimming and do so near an open lifeguard stand.

The UV index is very high, which means under 15 minutes to start a sunburn.

Tropical Update

In the tropics, the remnants of Kirk are pushing west across the central Atlantic, roughly 1,000 miles east of the Windward Islands.  There is a medium chance this could re-intensify over the next few days.

Post-tropical Leslie is meandering in the open north Atlantic nowhere near land.

There is also a disorganized area of low pressure about 300 miles of Cape Hatteras, NC running a medium chance of becoming a tropical cyclone as it moves to the northwest.

Regardless of its classification, it will bring rain and rough surf to the coastal Carolinas.

Hurricane season continues through November 30.

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