4/7 - Tuesday

0:00Oh, it's a local northeer this under way, that means windy and rather raw from a temperature standpoint for this time of year and some rain, although unfortunately not much rain for most inland spots, certainly not enough, especially west of I-95 until you get down into St. John, southeastern clay, county, that area gets better rainfall coverage and intensity it would appear with perhaps more than an inch of rain today and tomorrow. Well west of Highway 301, it will be some drizzle and light rain but in some cases barely measurable. So there will be a wide range, the fire, the big fire, the sergeant firing or the Florida Georgia border in northern Baker County has had some moisture the last couple of days and little less wildfire conditions that are conducive for spread but that will be changing over the next few days with wind and it will be drying out as well around that fire in northern Baker County while it stays wet and damp and sometimes downright wet and windy at our beaches. This is a beach beating, rough season, served double digit breakers at our beaches the

1:02next couple of days, 9, 10, 11 feet, looking at a very high rip current risk so obviously the best advice is stay out of the water and it doesn't look like things calm down much until late in the week. So we're looking at temperatures today only topping out in the 60s that wind will make a feel cooler especially at the beaches and along the St. John's River tomorrow is much the same story perhaps a degree or two warmer and then Thursday it's still pretty easy but we see a little less wind and a little less moisture so a bit of sun and still a coastal shower or two and then warmer and a partly cloudy sky by Friday and Saturday in the weekend will turn warmer near average at first but it looks quite a bit warmer by Sunday into a good part of next week when it's likely that the wildfire risk will go back up again as we dry out and the temperatures warm up we're not really seeing a significant weather pattern change in the long range so this is a nice break again the conditions less favorable for widespread wildfire activity and adverse wildfire behavior but it will not

2:02last particularly long and this is not the big big soaker that again we so badly need for most areas and most neighborhoods after all even the heavy showers and thunderstorms that we had early Sunday evening the amounts ranged widely across the area with some areas getting next to nothing and others seen more than an inch of rain especially in a corridor from north central through central into south central Duval County but the long term drought and of course the long range deficit is still well over a foot and continues across the area here's some good news the peak pollen season is over the oak pollen continues to to drop now we have the only pollen tracker that goes daily minute by minute here in Jacksonville and Duval County right on top of our roof and we are looking at much lower numbers now having said that it's still high but it's way below the peak which actually occurred all the way back on the 21st of March but it has only been slowly receding since then but we've noticed a dramatic drop the last several days and I should continue now again still pollen in the air and still high numbers overall but we're certainly seeing improvement and

3:04that should become more and more noticeable as we go to the coming weeks I know oak pollen suffers and particularly if it had a long six weeks or so and I'm probably saying hey the numbers I still don't feel well I get it is at least way off their peak and that's a good sign and we'll continue to see that number dwindle and the wildfire risk again improving conditions in the short term it's the longer range that we continue to be very concerned about with no signs of any real significant widespread soaking rains any time real soon this front that's just moved through and helped to make it damp and windy and cooler is just too far south for the heaviest rain which will be occurring across primarily central the south floor there were some spots we'll get at least several inches of rain over the next couple of days but that will be south of most of our listening area of northeastern Florida with all your weather all the time I'm chief meteorologist Mike Burish from the CBS 47 at Fox 30 actually is Jack's first alert weather center for 104.5 W okay V