MANATEE — The sunshine state took a break Wednesday as dark clouds ahead of a cool front blew over Manatee County, dropping a small measure of rain.
Cool air behind the narrow band of showers was forecast to drop temperatures this morning into the lower 50s, Bay News 9 meteorologist Josh Linker said late Wednesday.
The high today in Manatee County was forecast to be only in the 60s.
“This is not a cold front,” Linker said. “In fact, the temperatures associated with the front are returning the Tampa Bay area to normal ranges.”
Since the New Year, the weather in Manatee has been moderate and humid, with strong southerly breezes.
Officially .06 of an inch of rain fell at Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport on Wednesday — a small amount for the full day of dark, ominous clouds that swept Manatee during the late morning and afternoon.
Linker said some areas of Tampa Bay received a little more than did Manatee, but not much.
“You like to try to catch up a little bit on rainfall at this time of year,” he said, but Wednesday’s rain did little more than knock the dust off your outdoor furniture.
The only damages reported from the storm were in Hillsborough and Pasco counties, Linker said.
National Weather Service forecaster Nicole Carlisle, in Ruskin, said after the light cloudiness is swept away southeastward this morning, there will be no further rain chance through the weekend.
“It will be cooler and drier with the passing front — basically no shower activity,” Carlisle said.
Amidst all the dark clouds over Bradenton on Wednesday, the significant rainfall was in only a five-mile-wide band. Farther north along the frontal boundary, some areas in Georgia and the Carolinas were clobbered with heavy rain and localized flooding.
“The rain totals here were not that heavy because the front moved through so quickly,” Linker said.
For the next few days in Manatee, the forecast is for light winds in the range of five to 10 mph, Carlisle said.
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