Updated

The Tampa Bay area has experienced a recurring pattern of humid conditions with coastal showers and storms forming in the mornings and pushing inland through the afternoons over the past several days. Rain chances have fluctuated between roughly 30% and 50%, with warm, muggy overnight lows near 80 degrees and highs in the low 90s, occasionally dipping a few degrees below average on stormier days. Forecasters have noted increased atmospheric moisture driving the scattered storm activity, a typical late-summer pattern for the region, with heaviest rain generally concentrated near the coast before spreading inland by late afternoon or evening.