Jeff Huffman

Temperatures are expected to be 5 to 10 degrees cooler Sunday and Monday across a large portion of Florida thanks to a noticeable fall front.

A generally quiet week of weather is expected across Florida, despite multiple systems being watched nearby in the tropics.

Sam rapidly intensified overnight and is forecast to become a major hurricane over the weekend. While models suggests Sam may stay out to sea, it is still too soon to credibly predict whether there will be impacts to Florida.

Tropical Depression Eighteen formed in the eastern Atlantic Ocean Wednesday afternoon and is likely to become a long-lived hurricane. It is not possible yet to be confident this storm will turn out to sea like Peter and Rose, or Hurricane Larry before it.

Floridians usually have to wait much longer than the first day of autumn for that "fall feel" in the air. That won't be the case this year for those living north of I-4, as a noticeable cold front surges in.

Two days of heavy rain prompted flood watches and warnings across the northern third of Florida this weekend. That heavy rain risk will shift south this week, while the tropics stay active but non-threatening.

Larry is likely to become a major hurricane this weekend in the central Atlantic, but there are no tropical threats to Florida in the next five days.

Four systems in the tropical Atlantic basin were being monitored by the National Hurricane Center, but none of them are likely to be a threat to Florida in the next five to seven days.

Ida weakened to a tropical storm Monday morning as it moved into southern Mississippi, but continues to pose a tornado and flash flood risk to portions of the Panhandle.

Hurricane Ida has come ashore in southeast Louisiana, but the indirect hazards are just beginning in portions of the Florida Panhandle.