July 3, 2009, 5 p.m.

There will be stormy weather for many locations across Central Florida as a impulse moves south enhancing thunderstorm activity. For tonight, we'll see some lingering storms in the evening hours. However, most of the activity should end by midnight. Temperatures will fall into the middle 70s under partly clear skies.

For the Fourth of July, things will clear out a bit as some drier air moves into the area. Expect a few afternoon thunderstorms and partly cloudy skies. The high will make it up to 94 with a 30 percent chance of rain. In the evenin, most showers should come to an end just after sunset so the weather looks promising for firework celebrations.

It will be a repeat performance weather wise for Sunday with highs in the middle 90s and some scattered mainly afternoon thunderstorms.

Next week we keep rain chances between 40 percent and 50 percent with highs in the middle 90s.

In the tropics, we do not expect any major development over the next 48 hours.