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FOX 35 Orlando on MSNForecasters watching 2 areas of tropical moisture with potential for development: Will Florida feel impacts?Florida could feel impacts from an area of tropical moisture that includes remnants of the same system that dumped rain over the state last weekend. Forecasters are also watching another developing tropical wave in the distant Atlantic Ocean.
As mangoes reach peak ripeness, some Miami-area restaurants are accepting them as currency, offering cocktails, desserts and bread in exchange for the tropical fruit.
As a mass of showers and thunderstorms from the United States moves over open waters of the Gulf next week, there is a low chance of tropical development. The painstaking recovery efforts continue for around 100 people still missing following the devastating July Fourth flooding along the Guadalupe River in central Texas.
Florida is enduring its hottest stretch of the summer, with heat advisories covering much of the state as heat indices soar to between 100 and 115 degrees. Residents and visitors are urged to stay hydrated and seek a well air-conditioned location as the extreme heat is expected to persist through the weekend.
A disturbance near Florida could evolve into a tropical depression or Tropical Storm Dexter this week, according to forecasters.
Unlike Monday, which was a deluge for South Florida, today’s tropical-system-related rain is expected to be more concentrated in the center of the state. The Miami office of the National Weather Service predicts South Florida could see around 1 inch of rain on Tuesday and Wednesday, not enough for any severe flooding.
Depression or no depression, the system could bring several inches of rain to the north-central Gulf Coast, including Alabama, through Friday. The National Weather Service in Mobile thinks that the most rain with this system will likely fall closer to the coast, with scattered storms possible.