If you're headed to any outdoor events Saturday, take a moment to enjoy the sunny, clear skies.
The nice weather comes to a screeching halt on Sunday, with a series of showers and thunderstorms forecast to bring rain and possibly an early start to the rainy season, the National Weather Service office in Melbourne reports.
Rain enters the forecast on Sunday with rain chances ranging from 30 to 50 percent across the area. Rain chances increase on Monday and Tuesday, making for a wet start to the week.
"Forecast rainfall totals up to 3-5 inches will be possibly across east central Florida from Sunday-Thursday, with localized higher amounts possible," said Derrick Weitlich, a meteorologist with the Weather Service office in Melbourne. "This will be mostly welcome rainfall due to the drier-than-normal conditions over much of the area."
Weitlich's colleague, Randy Lascody, wrote in a morning forecast on Friday that "the moist pattern setting up could transition the area into the wet season, which would be a couple weeks early."
The showers are expected to help hold down the daily high temperatures at least for the first part of the week, the Weather Service said, with a forecast high of only 79 degrees on Monday.
Forecasters also will be keeping an eye on a low-pressure system forecast to move into the Gulf next week on the outside chance, indicated by some long-range computer models, that it could become an early season tropical disturbance.
Any tropical development is unlikely, Weitlich said. Either way, he said, the expected impact to our area would remain the same.