DOUGLAS R. CLIFFORD | Times
Barb Edwards of Hershey Pa., left, and Marilyn Hocker of Mechanicsburg, Pa., seek shelter from a rainstorm that blew over Clearwater Beach and through Pinellas County on Tuesday. Expect to see more rain over the next several days, forecasters say. Weather patterns will likely produce the heaviest rains from Thursday into Friday, with locally heavy downpours and possible street flooding, said Mike Clay of Bay News 9. Despite the forecast, the National Weather Service in Ruskin said that some parts of west central and southwest Florida had one of the driest summers on record, with rainfall since June 1 ranging from as little as 10 to over 30 inches.