The weather is lining up to be a perfect representation of the Fourth of July in Southwest Florida: it’s going to be really hot and rainy over the long holiday weekend.
Highs in recent weeks have amped up from the upper 80s to the lower 90s. Now highs are going a notch higher as we get into the meat of the summer heat.
“We’re going to have highs in the mid-90s by the end of the week and that’s pretty typical stuff,” said Rodney Wynn, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, or NWS, in Ruskin, which covers the Fort Myers-Cape Coral area. “It’s scattered storms and sea breeze driven weather throughout the rest of the week.”
The Fourth of July is among the hottest of major holidays as it falls in the peak of summer, and conditions this year will be different than last year, when the region was in a drought.
“Rain chances are anywhere from a 40% to 70% for each afternoon,” Wynn said. “We’re in the rainy season right now so that’s pretty typical for us. Fortunately, we’ve gotten some beneficial rainfall and that’s good become some areas were in moderate drought.”