{"id":170089,"date":"2026-02-26T14:04:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T14:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/170089\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T14:04:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T14:04:18","slug":"red-flag-warning-thursday-afternoon-due-to-elevated-fire-danger-orlando-sentinel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/170089\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Red Flag\u2019 warning Thursday afternoon due to elevated fire danger \u2013 Orlando Sentinel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday has sunny skies, pleasant temperatures and hazardous weather conditions in the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Temperature highs are near 79 across the region, according to NWS Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p>During the afternoon, breezy southwest winds will blow at 10 to 15 mph, with gusts up to 20 mph.<\/p>\n<p>The wind, combined with humidity levels at 30 to 35 percent, with worsening drought conditions, is contributing to critical fire danger.<\/p>\n<p>A red flag warning is in effect from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. for Daytona Beach, Sanford, Orlando, Lessburg, Titusville, Kissimee and Kenansville, according to NWS Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p>There are life-threatening rip currents at area beaches.<\/p>\n<p>Entering the surf isn\u2019t advised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thursday has sunny skies, pleasant temperatures and hazardous weather conditions in the afternoon. Temperature highs are near 79&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[114,266,115,139,141,140,109,221],"class_list":["post-170089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-social","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170089","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=170089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}