{"id":184015,"date":"2026-03-09T11:25:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T11:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/184015\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T11:25:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T11:25:22","slug":"morning-briefing-tampa-march-9-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/184015\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Briefing Tampa March 9 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good morning, Tampa Bay.\u00a0Here’s what you need to know today.<\/p>\n

Your Weather Planner<\/p>\n

The morning will be dry with an east breeze.<\/p>\n

Temperatures will move into the mid to upper 80s in the afternoon.<\/p>\n

In the late afternoon to evening a couple thunderstorms will be possible inland.<\/p>\n

Rain will end later in the evening.<\/p>\n

Lows will fall to the upper 60s at night.<\/p>\n

Get the full forecast here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Highs: 88<\/p>\n

Lows: 68<\/p>\n

Rain Coverage:\u00a010%<\/p>\n

Check your hour-by-hour forecast here<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Share your weather photos<\/a><\/p>\n

Around Tampa Bay<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0Local pastor describes trying to leave Israel and return home<\/a>
Now in Greece, he said he should return home Tuesday.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0Tampa nonprofit helps residents navigate immigration paperwork as legal costs remain a barrier<\/a>
Nebrass, a Tampa-based nonprofit, provides structured administrative immigration support to people trying to navigate the system.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0Tampa Bay region facing major water shortage amid drought<\/a>
The region is facing one of the worst water shortages in 50 years.<\/p>\n

4.\u00a0TPA helps to make busy spring break season travel stress-free with new additions<\/a>
The new changes include shuttles, real-time security wait times, TSA precheck, touchless ID and more.<\/p>\n

5.\u00a0USF celebrates conference championship with 83-60 win<\/a>
The Bulls are 23-8 overall and won the American Athletic Conference regular-season title at 15-3. The American Conference tournamet starts Wednesday.<\/p>\n

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Around the Nation & World<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0Iran names Mojtaba Khamenei to succeed his slain father as supreme leader<\/a><\/p>\n

2.\u00a0Oil and gas prices rapidly rise as Iran war shows no signs of letting up<\/a><\/p>\n

3.\u00a0Jan. 6 plaque honoring police officers is now displayed at Capitol after 3-year delay<\/a><\/p>\n

4.\u00a0After president-filled celebration, Rev. Jesse Jackson’s family gathers for intimate final goodbye<\/a><\/p>\n

Quote of the Day
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Arnold Palmer was famous for saying, “You must play boldly to win,\u201d and Akshay Bhatia followed that script Sunday to a stunning comeback and playoff victory in the Arnold Palmer Invitational.<\/p>\n

Bhatia started his back-nine charge with four straight birdies.\u00a0He nearly holed his 6-iron that went right at the flag on the par-5 16th to set up eagle.\u00a0And he outlasted Daniel Berger with a par on the first extra hole to win at Bay Hill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good morning, Tampa Bay.\u00a0Here’s what you need to know today. Your Weather Planner The morning will be dry…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2126,275,135,137,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-184015","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-app-morning-briefing","9":"tag-spectrum-news-staff","10":"tag-tampa","11":"tag-tampa-headlines","12":"tag-tampa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}