Good morning, Tampa Bay. Here's what you need to know today.
Your Weather Planner
It's another warm day with high temperatures in the mid to upper 80s.
If you're at the beach, high temperatures will be in the low 80s with a northwest wind 10 to 15 mph.
Isolated showers or a stray thunderstorm can't be ruled out but the overall coverage of storms will be very low.
A front will approach the area and stall across the peninsula.
This leads to a chance of a few scattered showers or thunderstorms Thursday and Friday.
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Highs: Upper 80s Lows: 60s Rain Coverage: 10% |
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5. Mother: Son's death on Orlando FreeFall ride could've been prevented
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2. UPS commits to deliver another 80 metric tons of aide to Ukrainian refugees
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4. Supreme Court could free Biden to end Trump asylum policy
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Quote of the Day
Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday called on Congress to approve more U.S. military and humanitarian financial aid to Ukraine in its war against Russia.
A day after meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv, Blinken was back in Washington to testify before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The panel was reviewing the $60.4 billion budget request for the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development that is part of the Biden administration’s overall $5.8 trillion budget proposal.