{"id":177382,"date":"2026-03-04T05:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T05:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/177382\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T05:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T05:38:10","slug":"rain-chances-increase-thursday-and-friday-across-central-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/177382\/","title":{"rendered":"Rain chances increase Thursday and Friday across Central Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Smaller rain chances will be in place for Wednesday, before Thursday and Friday bring chances of thunderstorms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The rain that we saw move through the area on Tuesday was mostly short-lived light rain. We may see a few of these tomorrow afternoon, but they will not be as widespread as what we had on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Thursday and Friday, more moisture from the south will move up into central Florida.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This could allow for some thunderstorm development, particularly to the west of Orlando in areas such as Lake and Sumter counties.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Severe weather is not expected but some storms could produce pockets of heavy rain, wind gusts of 40 mph along with frequent lightning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">There are no significant cold fronts moving through the region over the next week, and temperatures will slowly climb through the 80s between now and next Wednesday.<\/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":"Smaller rain chances will be in place for Wednesday, before Thursday and Friday bring chances of thunderstorms. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[147,28,30,29,1161,42205,8050],"class_list":["post-177382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-central-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-heavy-rain","tag-light-rain","tag-rain-chances"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177382","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=177382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}