{"id":162471,"date":"2026-02-20T12:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T12:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/162471\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T12:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T12:05:09","slug":"orlando-weather-record-highs-this-weekend-amid-extreme-florida-drought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/162471\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando weather: Record highs this weekend amid extreme Florida drought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/4hql5twhbkbhgb8w.jpg\" alt=\"Orlando AM Weather: Hot weekend before temperatures drop again\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">ORLANDO, Fla. &#8211; Patchy fog before 9 a.m., mostly sunny and warm. High 87\u00b0.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Tonight, the weather will be mild with patchy fog. Low 62\u00b0.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/wx-gfx-022026-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" data-v-97c6a84c=\"\"\/>   <\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Saturday will be very warm. Mostly sunny, high 88\u00b0.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/wx-gfx-022026-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" data-v-97c6a84c=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">\u00a0A cold front on Sunday will bring rain showers. Busy north winds will usher in 30s and 40s early next week, with highs in the 50s and 60s.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">In the Orlando DMA, we&#8217;ll see mid-30s in Ocala, upper 30s to near 40 in Orlando and mid-40s at the coast. It&#8217;s short-lived because we will rebound into the 80s next week!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Our drought remains 100% coverage in Florida, with nearly 70% of the state in extreme drought. With no significant rain in the forecast, the drought will get worse over the next few months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This story was written with information from the FOX 35 Storm Team.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/tag\/weather\/weather-forecast\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Weather Forecast<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/tag\/weather\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Weather<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. &#8211; Patchy fog before 9 a.m., mostly sunny and warm. High 87\u00b0. Tonight, the weather will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[115,139,141,140,221,404],"class_list":["post-162471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-news","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-weather","tag-weather-forecast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162471","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=162471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}