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After a hot, mostly dry start to the week, the Tampa Bay area saw increasing rain chances by the weekend, with scattered coastal downpours on Friday spreading inland and a stormier pattern developing by Sunday. Sunday's forecast called for roughly a 50% chance of scattered storms with the heaviest rainfall near the coast, muggy overnight lows near 80 degrees, and highs a degree or two below average in the mid-to-upper 80s. The shift followed several days of heat-advisory conditions and reflected a broader pattern change bringing greater atmospheric moisture into the region.