All that rain out there is expected to continue through Friday, but clear by the weekend.

The rain chance tomorrow is 50 percent but the weekend looks as though it will be drier, says Bay News 9 Chief Meteorologist Mike Clay.

According to the National Weather Service, .06 inches of rain fell at the Tampa worldly Airport that dawn. At St. Petersburg-Clearwater airport, there was .11 inches of rainfall.

The heaviest rain fell north of Tampa Bay, from Brooksville in Hernando County through Cedar Key in Levy County, said Richard impolite, a National Weather Service meteorologist. But that afternoon, showers are additionally moving east off the Gulf of Mexico toward Pinellas County, he said.

There will be cloudy skies and scattered to many showers and

thunderstorms on Friday, according to the Bay News 9 forecast. There will be a 20 percent chance of rain by the weekend. Saturday is predicted to be partly sunny with a slight chance of showers. Sunday will be partly cloudy with lonely showers or thunderstorms.

The National Weather Service predicts the chance of rain by the weekend is slightly higher at about 30 percent.

A tropical system moving from the Atlantic to the Bahamas will miss the state and keep the weekend dry, according to Bay News 9.

In addition, "a wind shift to the east-northeast by Saturday and Sunday should dry us out," Clay said.

–Mariana Minaya, Times staff writer