Our dry streak in the First Alert Forecast will be quenched by a tropical cyclone

COLUMBUS, GA. (WRBL)- This developing low pressure system (Southern Caribbean) will soon be named a storm, Rafael.

The majority of the models keep the worst of this system well enough away to add the benefit of much needed rainfall by the middle of this week in the First Alert Forecast.

The wind we are experiencing now through election day will be from an intensifying front towards our west and the strong high pressure towards the east.

The wind will continue when the outer bands from the cyclone, likely to be named Rafael, Tuesday from the latest forecast.

Readings will continue to be in the upper 70s to lower 80s and mild overnight low temperatures in the mid to upper 60s.

Our best chance of rain will be Wednesday all day…Isolated showers and storms when the physical front lifts remnants of the tropical cyclone through the morning, Saturday.

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