Hot Wednesday then turning ‘cooler,’ Ernesto expected to strengthen into hurricane

It’s partly sunny with temperatures in the 90s as the sea breeze is just starting to edge inland.

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The Tropics

The First Alert Weather Team is also tracking the topics. Ernesto is strengthening and should soon be a hurricane while the center passes just northeast of Puerto Rico. Still a track far to the east of Florida but there will be a rip current risk with an easterly swell all up and down the East Coast. See “ Talking the Tropics With Mike .”

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It will be a hot Wednesday then turning “cooler.”

Hot temperatures continue through Wednesday with afternoon highs in the 90s with widely scattered late day showers and thunderstorms.

A wind shift to out of the northeast off the Atlantic will be accompanied by a few showers and storms Thursday before dying out Friday. Temperatures will “dip” into the 80s for highs and lows well inland into the 60s.

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