Denis Phillips on Sara’s Florida Impact

The past 24 hours have brought good news when it comes to Tropical Storm Sara. ABC Action News Chief Meteorologist Denis Phillips says all that time spent over dry land will weaken the system quite a bit. But Denis says there's always that chance that Mother Nature could throw us a curveball. And Florida isn't getting away completely. Here's the latest on Sara.

Sara is moving west at 9MPH bringing heavy rains to Honduras this weekend. Right now winds are at 45 miles per hour. Denis says the models show Sara fizzling out over the Yucatan over the next couple of days. That's great news for us in Florida... but we're not completely out of the woods with this system. While any serious damaging winds and flooding seem out of the forecast, whatever is left of Sara will still head to Florida.

Even though we probably won't get even a tropical storm, Denis thinks we'll still see some wet weather from the remnants of Sara around Wednesday in the Tampa area. The moisture from the storm will "merge with a strong cold front," according to Denis. So we'll still likely see some heavy rain at times midweek. Denis has even has seen a couple models where the storm redevelops but he doesn't think that'll happen.

For those who've been waiting for a cool down, you're in luck. Even this weekend, while Sara is still far to our south, we'll see cooler temperatures this weekend. When you wake up Saturday and Sunday morning, temps will hover right around 60 and won't get much higher than 80 in the Tampa area. The bigger cool down is coming after whatever Sara brings. Temperatures might not even reach 70 starting Thursday of next week.

Goodbye Milton. And don't come back. The weather in Tampa Bay this week has been perfect. It's such a stark contrast to what we saw last week as Hurricane Milton tore through Florida. Lives were lost. The lives not lost were forever changed.

The forecast this week calls not only for sunny skies, but cooler temperatures. In fact, morning temps this week could dip in the 50s in the northern areas of Tampa Bay as a cold front dips down into Florida. After the past month we've had with Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton, we have earned it.

Below are some of the Hurricane Milton photos our talented photographers captured in Tampa, St. Pete, Clearwater and other parts of Florida during Milton's unwelcome visit.

We'll never forget seeing the roof of Tropicana Field being torn off section by section in the middle of the night. Other incredible images you'll see below in this "Goodbye Milton" photo gallery include overturned planes, cars buried in sand and a new local celebrity named “Lieutenant Dan." He's the newest "A Florida Man."

As schools in our area begin to reopen, the lights come back on, the buzzing of air conditioners returns, and gas station lines become reasonable again, we hope it's another 103 years before another hurricane like Milton comes by again. But for now the recovery begins. We made it through Hurricane Milton. And fortunately the next couple storms are staying far away from Florida.

While some of these Hurricane Milton photos bring back terrible memories of Milton's night of chaos, I definitely encourage you to hang in there until the end. Spencer Platt captured a great moment on Clearwater Beach that shows our Florida resiliency. Hurricane Milton did a number on us. But living in Florida, we know we're rolling the dice to live in Paradise.