Today: Mostly sunny, with a high near 79. Breezy, with a north wind between 8 and 15 mph. 


Tonight:  Mostly clear, with a low around 49. North wind around 7 mph. 


Hazardous Weather Outlook: Dry conditions will elevate the fire weather danger today across a few inland northeast Florida counties.


Forecast Details: cut-off middle and upper level low continues over the eastern Continental U.S, with extension of a trough southward to the eastern Gulf Coast. An upstream ridge remains anchored over the central U.S. Surface high pressure ridge is located from Great Lakes to the central/western Gulf Coast. A dry and seasonably cool air mass is over the area. An inverted trough is located over the coastal waters where low level convergence and high relative humidity values around 3-6,000 ft are producing scattered-broken strato cumulus and a few showers over the northeast Florida coastal waters. 
Models show the cut off low over the northeastern U.S. to continue through Wednesday and then lift out Wednesday night into Thursday. As this occurs, the trough will swing through the area and heights will rise allowing for a slight warm up.


For today, the coastal trough and associated moisture (with peak precipitable water values near 1 inch) will produce a slight chance for showers over portions of the coastal waters and southeast public zones. Isolated shower chances will shift southward during the day as the low level flow becomes more homogeneous from the north. Partly to locally mostly cloudy skies over the southeast zones are expected, otherwise mostly sunny. Breezy northerly winds expected along the coast south of Fernandina with gusts of about 25 miles per hour. May see an isolated gust near 30 miles per hour at the beaches south of St. Augustine. 


Tonight, low levels dry out and skies should become mostly clear. Chilly low temperatures expected with middle 40s inland areas tonight and Wednesday night. In fact record in is Gainesville 52 (1957), we are likely to break the record low tonight.


Today's Pollen Levels: 6.6 Medium (on a scale to 12); Predominate Pollen: Ragweed, Grass and Chenopods.


For additional information visit the National Weather Service in Jacksonville website on the internet at http://www.srh.noaa.gov/jax/