{"id":157129,"date":"2026-02-16T13:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T13:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/157129\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T13:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T13:44:11","slug":"central-florida-to-face-dry-and-hot-week-drought-conditions-worsen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/157129\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Florida to face dry and hot week, drought conditions worsen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Central Florida will see dry conditions this week after Sunday\u2019s rain, with temperatures expected to reach near 90 degrees by Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The return to sunny weather is expected to worsen the ongoing drought.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">While Monday will offer a brief period of cooler temperatures, a steady warming trend will continue throughout the rest of the week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Monday will be dry, breezy, and cooler than the seasonal average.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The warming trend begins on Tuesday with high temperatures reaching the upper 70s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">By Wednesday, the area will see highs in the 80s as the dry weather pattern continues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Temperatures are forecast to reach near 90 degrees by Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Weather forecasters expect dry, sunny conditions to persist through the end of the week, which will worsen existing drought conditions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/mobile-apps\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and smart TV apps. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">click here<\/a> to stream Channel 9 Eyewitness News live.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"ct:story;elm:img;itc:0;\" class=\"stretched-box\" href=\"https:\/\/wftvapps.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"537\" height=\"108\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/beda08358d6db9816e7b0d066edd22cf.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Central Florida will see dry conditions this week after Sunday\u2019s rain, with temperatures expected to reach near 90&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75343,147,12119,75344,28,30,29,21945,75345,21936],"class_list":{"0":"post-157129","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-90-degrees","9":"tag-central-florida","10":"tag-dry-conditions","11":"tag-end-of-the-week","12":"tag-florida","13":"tag-florida-headlines","14":"tag-florida-news","15":"tag-high-temperatures","16":"tag-sunny-conditions","17":"tag-warming-trend"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157129","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=157129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}