{"id":193213,"date":"2026-03-16T08:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T08:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/193213\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T08:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T08:29:08","slug":"daytona-beach-sanford-tie-heat-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/193213\/","title":{"rendered":"Daytona Beach, Sanford tie heat records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">ORLANDO, FLa.  \u2013 Despite storms and periods of rain moving through Central Florida on Sunday, temperatures still surged to near-record levels across the region.<\/p>\n<p>Record heat<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Daytona Beach and Sanford both tied their daily high-temperature records on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Daytona Beach reached 89\u00b0F Sunday afternoon, matching the previous record set in 2016. Sanford climbed to 90\u00b0F, tying a long-standing record that dates back to 1971.<\/p>\n<p>Record<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Orlando also came close to record territory, with a high of 88\u00b0F, just shy of the 91\u00b0F record set in 1971. Leesburg wasn\u2019t far behind either, topping out at 86\u00b0F, only two degrees below its record of 88\u00b0F set in 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Even with unsettled weather, Central Florida still managed to bring the heat, with several cities flirting with or matching long-standing temperature records.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by WKMG ClickOrlando &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, FLa. \u2013 Despite storms and periods of rain moving through Central Florida on Sunday, temperatures still surged&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[508,139,141,140],"class_list":["post-193213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-forecast","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193213","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=193213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}