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First Alert Weather: Warm Friday with a few showers expected

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Temperatures will be mild this evening dropping slowly from the 80s into the 70s under partly cloudy skies with only an isolated, brief shower moving inland off the Atlantic.

Saturday will be partly sunny & breezy with a few widely scattered showers & thunderstorms but plenty of dry hours too.  Highs will reach the low to mid 80s at the beaches where there will be a high rip current risk.... to highs in the mid to upper 80s inland.

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All eyes will be on tropical depression #9. Soon to be Humberto, the storm will stay 150+ miles to the east of Florida's & Georgia's coast with no inland impacts but rough seas & surf at area beaches.