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Forecast: Workweek starts chilly, but Thanksgiving will be toasty across Tampa Bay

 
Antoine Smith and his son Antoine Smith Jr., 11, of Riverview fish off the pier at Ballast Point in Tampa on Monday, Nov. 21, 2016. CHARLIE KAIJO   |   Times
Antoine Smith and his son Antoine Smith Jr., 11, of Riverview fish off the pier at Ballast Point in Tampa on Monday, Nov. 21, 2016. CHARLIE KAIJO | Times
Published Nov. 21, 2016

While Monday starts off chilly in Tampa Bay, with wake-up temperatures in the 30s and 40s, the sweater- and-scarf weather won't reach past the middle of the workweek.

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Feels-like temperatures around the Tampa Bay area

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Feels-like temperatures around the Tampa Bay area

Which means we'll be back to short sleeves for Thanksgiving.

Although the cold snap will extend into Tuesday morning, when temperatures will also start in the upper 40s in the immediate Tampa Bay area, 10Weather WTSP meteorologist Ashley Batey said, sunshine and clear skies will kick start a warming trend by the afternoon that will gradually boost temperatures throughout the week.

"As warm moisture starts to work its way back in through the middle of the week, those overnight temperatures come back up," Batey said.

Monday will warm to the low 70s, Batey said, and by the middle of the week, shifting winds will help highs climb to the low 80s.

"We'll start to see an east-southeast wind that will bring those temperatures up," Batey said, "and that includes the afternoon for Thanksgiving, where we'll top out around 81."