Hot weekend ahead for the Jacksonville area

The First Alert Weather Team is forecasting a hot weekend for Northeast Florida and Southeast Georgia.

According to Garrett Bedenbaugh, meteorologist at Action News Jax First Alert, we can expect:

• Dry commute on Friday morning.

• Maximum temperatures on Friday will be between 35 and 35 degrees Celsius inland and below 35 degrees Celsius on the coast.

• It feels like temperatures over 100 degrees.

• In the late afternoon and early evening, after 4 p.m. on Friday, there will be isolated rain showers/thunderstorms, especially in northeast Florida.

• Locally, heavy rain and lightning strikes are the main hazards. Gusty winds of over 65 km/h are possible with each thunderstorm.

• It will remain hot and mostly dry over the weekend.

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