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<\/p>\nGood evening, Tampa Bay. We’re wrapping up the day for you with the most important stories you need to know and your weather outlook.<\/p>\n
Your Weather Planner<\/p>\n
A few showers are possible in the morning as the front to our south lifts northward across the area.<\/p>\n
Skies will be partly cloudy.<\/p>\n
High temperatures will reach into the 80s.<\/p>\n
The afternoon sea breeze will likely initiate more showers and some storms.<\/p>\n
Keep an eye on Klystron 9.<\/p>\n
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Highs:\u00a082<\/p>\n
Lows:\u00a069<\/p>\n
Rain Coverage:\u00a040%<\/p>\n
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Check your hour-by-hour forecast here<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Share your weather photos<\/a><\/p>\n Today’s Big Stories<\/p>\n 1.\u00a0Spring Break: Free, low-cost programs for Tampa Bay kids<\/a> 2.\u00a0All 6 airmen on U.S. refueling plane that crashed in Iraq are dead, U.S. military says<\/a> 3.\u00a0Manatee County launches Mixon Farms Market<\/a> 4.\u00a0As a revival comes to Gas Plant District, more attempts to maintain its past<\/a> 5.\u00a0Starlink launched pushed back to Saturday morning<\/a> \u00a0<\/p>\n Featured Social Post<\/p>\n Your Notes for Tonight and Tomorrow<\/p>\n TRAFFIC NOTE |\u00a0There is a big closure on U.S. 98 this weekend that will send drivers out of their way. It’s between County Road 54 and Old Lakeland Highway at the Polk-Pasco line. The closure starts at 8 p.m. tonight and goes to 6 a.m. Monday. Drivers will have take a nearly eight-mile detour to get around it. The closure is so crews can install drainage pipes and repair the pavement. View a detour map.<\/a> Gold Award Girl Scout Shea Polley (center) says she is inspired by her grandmother Laurie Pharr (left) and mother Leesa Polley, whom both were scouts. (Spectrum News\/Roy De Jesus)<\/p>\n Tampa Bay area Girl Scout Shea Polley has reached an important milestone: She\u00a0has\u00a0sold\u00a0more than\u00a010,000 boxes\u00a0of\u00a0Girl Scout cookies\u00a0in her years as a scout.<\/p>\n While that is a monumental achievement, it is her other Gold Award projects and legacy that are just as inspiring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good evening, Tampa Bay. We’re wrapping up the day for you with the most important stories you need…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[834,275,135,137,136],"class_list":["post-190735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-app-evening-briefing","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190735","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=190735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
For working families,\u00a0a number of cities are offering free or low-cost week long camps. Another option is spring break programs offered through local YMCA branches, that in many cases are open to non-members.<\/p>\n
All six crew members of a KC-135 refueling aircraft supporting operations against Iran are dead, the U.S. military said today, after their plane\u00a0crashed in western Iraq.<\/p>\n
The former Mixon Fruit Farms property, now owned by Manatee County, will be filled with vendors when a new\u00a0farmers market\u00a0holds its first event Sunday.<\/p>\n
As the future of St. Petersburg\u2019s historic Gas Plant District is still unfolding, an effort is underway to preserve its past.<\/p>\n
For a second time, the Starlink launch has been pushed back. This time, to tomorrow morning.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
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WEEKEND SPORTS |\u00a0The Tampa Bay Rays have games tomorrow against the Minnesota Twins in Ft. Myers and on sunday against the Pittsburgh Pirates in Port Charlotte. Both games start at 1:05 p.m. Meanwhile, the Tampa Bay Lightning host the Carolina Hurricanes tomorrow night at Benchmark International Arena, with a puck drop time of 7 p.m. And on Sunday, a number of state basketball teams will learn their seeing and opponent for the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. Florida, USF, UCF and Miami are all likely to qualify.
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RIVER O’GREEN |\u00a0The annual Tampa event that celebrates St. Patrick’s Day will take place tomorrow from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Curtis Hixon Park and will include dyeing the Hillsborough River green. Watch our On The Town preview.<\/a><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/BN9_girl_scouts_0313.jpeg\")
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