FORECAST: Rain expected to pick up throughout the day

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FORECAST:

The rain has started and will be with us for the majority of the day. Intensity even picks up by midday through the early afternoon.

Totals could exceed 1 inch in spots, but no flooding concerns are expected.

Temperatures are expected to lock down into the 40s all day, with just a few neighborhoods getting close to 50 degrees this afternoon.

Drier weather returns tonight, and we'll keep that through the weekend. Temps recover back to the 60s on Friday, and we'll be near 70 this weekend.

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WEATHER RESOURCES:

Potential Tropical Cyclone 19 formed in the Caribbean on Wednesday afternoon and is expected to strengthen into Tropical Storm Sara on Thursday. Hurricane Watches have been posted for parts of Honduras with Tropical Storm Watches in northern Nicaragua. The NHC says Potential Tropical Cyclone 19 will continue to move westward toward the western Caribbean Sea, and Jamaica should see showers and thunderstorms associated with the system throughout the next day.

Today on Tracking the Tropics, we'll have the latest on a disturbance in the Caribbean that is likely to form in the coming days. The show streams live at 12:30 p.m. ET on WFLA.com and the WFLA app.

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