Cold Front Should Bring Chill to Tampa Bay Area: Weekend Weather

TAMPA, FL — Tampa Bay area residents might want to pull out those sweaters. A cold front is expected to move into the area over the weekend, bringing noticeably cooler temperatures along with it.

While Friday is expected to start the weekend off with sunny conditions and a high in the low 80s, overnight might be a little chilly for some. The forecast calls for Nov. 18 calls for a low in the upper 50s in much of the region.

Saturday is anticipated to bring slightly cooler temperatures in the daytime hours with a high in the upper 70s forecast, according to the National Weather Service. The overnight low, however, is expected to drop to about 50 degrees, in much of the region.

Sunday is the day the cold snap’s effects are expected to take hold. While a bright sunny day is in the forecast, the high temperature is only projected to reach the upper 60s. Overnight, clear skies are anticipated with an evening low down in the blustery 45-degree range.

Forecasters expect Monday to deliver slightly warmer temperatures with a daytime high near 70 degrees. The overnight low should climb to the upper 40s in much of the region.

As of Friday, forecasters were expecting a mostly sunny week ahead. Thanksgiving Thursday is expected to bring a daytime high in the upper 70s with mostly sunny conditions in the forecast. Strong chances for rain are not in the forecast.

No severe weather is in the cards for the weekend ahead, according to the weather service. A tropical disturbance located in the southwestern Caribbean Sea remained disorganized as of the National Hurricane Center’s 1 p.m. Nov. 18 update. That system has been given a 60 percent chance of developing more over the next five days. Forecasters say conditions are expected to become more conducive for tropical depression formation next week. Just where that system will go if it does happen to develop remains up in the air. The hurricane center said the low pressure system is expected to move “slowly and erratically.”

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