The heat remains at least for one more day based on the National Weather Service forecast from Peachtree City, who are expecting thunderstorms at some point to move in on Sunday – when exactly is the question at hand.
The thermostat will feel like it is on broil again for Sunday with a high of 97, and a heat index up to 103 before showers and thunderstorms are expected sometime after 5 p.m.
That means a heat advisory – a favorite new phrase in the summertime vocabulary – remains in effect until 8 p.m. this evening.
Storms are expected to finally start moving in as the heat dome starts to break and the jet stream pushes back into the area with storms coming to Polk sometime between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. based on the forecast at the time of writing. Those time frames could have changed by the time this is being read, so keep that in mind for making any plans for the day.
The NWS puts the chance of precipitation in Polk County at 60% throughout the late afternoon and early evening hours.
Any stormy weather will bring with it chances for at least a tenth of an inch of rain.
Don’t expect the rain to help completely break the dog days of summer.
The NWS still has Polk suffering from August temperatures as the forecast calls for Monday to be up to 88, but with a heat index up to 97. The forecast additionally calls for chances for rain and thunderstorms again to start the week, mainly after 2 p.m.
Chances for heavy rain in coming storms are possible.
It might actually begin to feel somewhat habitable outside by Tuesday in the coming forecast, with temperatures in the mid 80s and the likelihood for additional rainfall.
That forecast persists throughout the rest of the week and heading into Friday, with the thermometer remaining around the mid-80s range through Friday and chances of rain diminishing in time for football.
By the first weekend of September, the forecast will be sunshine and a high of 88.
Keep a weather eye out for tropical storms
Polk County might be feeling the outer bands of a tropical storm, which will also help bring down the temperature as the system moves from the Yucatan Peninsula through the Gulf of Mexico and right on northward toward the Florida Panhandle, then onward to South and Central Georgia.
Tropical Depression #10 is predicted to become a Hurricane between Monday and Tuesday as it quickly moves into the warm waters of the Gulf and develops once it passes by Cuba.
We could see impacts from the next tropical system moving fast through Georgia by Wednesday afternoon, and it’ll be well off into the Carolinas by Thursday.
