{"id":240204,"date":"2026-04-21T11:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T11:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/240204\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T11:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T11:29:08","slug":"tampa-april-21-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/240204\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa \u2014 April 21, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Your Weather Planner<\/p>\n

It will be another breezy day for Tuesday with highs in the low to mid 80s.<\/p>\n

Winds could gust over 20 mph at times out of the northeast.<\/p>\n

Humidity remains low with mostly sunny skies.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lows will fall to the low 60s for Tampa, but some will fall to the 50s inland and near 50 well to the north.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Highs: 83<\/p>\n

Lows:\u00a063<\/p>\n

Rain Coverage:\u00a00%<\/p>\n

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

Around Tampa Bay<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0Tampa Downtown Partnership wraps community meetings<\/a>
Tampa\u2019s Downtown Partnership has wrapped up a series of community meetings aimed at gathering feedback from residents and business owners.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0Hillsborough Schools use AI tool to help teachers<\/a>
Teachers in Hillsborough County Schools are getting some high-tech help in the classroom, using artificial intelligence to cut done on their workload.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0Lightning must overcome home playoff woes<\/a>
A\u00a04-3 overtime loss<\/a>\u00a0to the Montreal Canadiens in Game 1 on Sunday was the Lightning\u2019s 10th loss in 11 games at home in the postseason, going back to Games 4 and 6 in the 2022 Stanley Cup Final against Colorado.<\/p>\n

4.\u00a0Manatee County school enrollment surges, driving major expansion projects across the district<\/a>
While some school districts in the Tampa Bay area are dealing with declining enrollment and closing some schools, Manatee County is seeing the opposite.<\/p>\n

5.\u00a0Water-wise landscapes get recognition from Tampa Bay Water amid ongoing drought<\/a>
David Kulp and Michele Burt’s home is surrounded by 300 plants of 88 different varieties.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Around the Nation<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer is leaving Trump\u2019s Cabinet after abuse of power allegations<\/a><\/p>\n

2.\u00a0Trump offers mixed messages about path ahead for U.S. war against Iran<\/a><\/p>\n

3.\u00a0Transportation secretary says FAA saw record air traffic controller applications amid its push to recruit gamers<\/a><\/p>\n

4.\u00a0Singer D4vd pleads not guilty to murder in death of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez<\/a><\/p>\n

Don’t Miss This<\/p>\n

Quote of the Day
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Apple CEO Tim Cook is stepping down from the job that he inherited from the late Steve Jobs, ending a 15-year reign that saw the company\u2019s market value soar by more than $3.6 trillion during an iPhone-fueled\u00a0era of prosperity<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Cook, 65, will turn the CEO duties over to Apple\u2019s head of hardware engineering, John Ternus, on Sept. 1 while remaining involved with the Cupertino, California, company as executive chairman. That\u2019s similar to the transitions made by Amazon\u2019s Jeff Bezos and Netflix\u2019s Reed Hastings after they ended their highly successful tenures as CEO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good morning, Tampa Bay.\u00a0Here’s what you need to know today. Your Weather Planner It will be another breezy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2126,275,135,137,136],"class_list":["post-240204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-app-morning-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\/240204","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=240204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}