I hope you’ve taken full advantage of such a glorious, almost fall-like weekend here in Central Florida! I know I sure did in between of monitoring your weather for this upcoming week ahead.

Dry air continues to funnel southward from an upper low that’s been stuck over the northern border of Florida and Georgia for the last few days. The west side of this feature, and the counter-clockwise turning we observe in the winds, is just throwing cooler, drier continental air into our midst.

You’ve probably seen less and less clouds as we’ve progressed from last Friday into your Sunday evening, with a pretty optimal sunset likely in store for a lot of us. That is, unless you managed to catch a couple of the very isolated and pesky showers walking across the peninsula from northeast to southwest.

We do have some spotty pockets of rain, all thanks to a low pressure system and a leftover frontal boundary draped to our south trying to spin some moisture back in to us.

As soon as they come ashore however, they begin to dissipate and pretty quickly since the air is far less unstable and drier the further up you go.

Your first day of the new school or work week should look fairly similar to today. As the air around us begins to evolve, since it’s been marinating across the deep south and southeast for an extended holiday weekend so to speak, it will feel noticeably warmer. The sun will feel hotter when you step outside.

The dry air building in and being forced in from the north and west will keep rain chances low. So honestly, it looks to be another stellar start to the day and a fine way to kick off the next full week of September.

By about Wednesday and into Thursday and the approaching weekend is when the wheels of change will start to turn. The upper level low sitting north of us will start to pick up some forward speed and be reabsorbed into the jet stream pattern that initially dropped it into our region a few days back.

Because of this, we’ll be between systems. Moisture will be allowed to surge back in from the south once again from the tropical firehose of the Caribbean, the Yucatan, and the eastern Gulf.

As this occurs, humidity will start to climb back in summertime fashion. Maybe this is our one last push of summer conditions here in Florida before fall really tries to take hold deeper into the month and on final approach for October.

Temperatures will try to creep back into the 90s, and the humidity will make sure it certainly feels that way for us Floridians.

With increased humidity and moisture to toy around with, we’ll start to see more rain and storms during the afternoon and evening hours. This is especially true for Thursday and Friday. Then as we rotate out of next weekend, rain will be back in full swing for just about all of us.

So for now, enjoy the first half of a beautiful week ahead. Everyone won’t be able to dodge what isolated instances of rain and lightning we do see during the warmest parts of the day. But all in all as you wrap up your prep today, Sunday should behave. Monday and Tuesday look fairly tame as well.