{"id":196182,"date":"2026-03-18T10:57:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T10:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/196182\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T10:57:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T10:57:10","slug":"orlando-weather-chilly-start-for-central-florida-freeze-frost-alerts-for-marion-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/196182\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando weather: Chilly start for Central Florida; freeze, frost alerts for Marion County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/q8fy2i7gfj91n9d0.jpg\" alt=\"Orlando AM Weather Forecast: Chilly start before afternoon warm-up\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>   <\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">ORLANDO, Fla. &#8211; It&#8217;s a chilly start to the day!<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">We&#8217;re kicking off Wednesday with temperatures in the upper 40s in Orlando and freezing temperatures in Gainesville and Ocala. Freeze warnings and frost advisories are in effect until 9 a.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">A mix of clouds and sun linger today with temperatures once again finally feeling like Florida again!<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/wx-gfx-031826-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>   <\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Temperatures will max out in the upper 60s and low 70s this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/wx-gfx-031826-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Tonight, temperatures will even be warmer than what we saw last night, with temperatures dropping here in Orlando into the low 50s under mainly clear skies.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/wx-gfx-031826-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">High pressure is taking hold. This will keep our weather calm, dry and warmer as we look ahead to the end of the week and the weekend. There is a lot of sunshine looking ahead and temps will climb back to average (upper 70s) by the end of the week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Temperatures pop back up into the 80s this weekend, so if you are on spring break, a beach day is finally in the forecast.<\/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-f1afc186=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Weather Forecast<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/tag\/weather\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Weather<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. &#8211; It&#8217;s a chilly start to the day! We&#8217;re kicking off Wednesday with temperatures in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[115,139,141,140,221,404],"class_list":["post-196182","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\/196182","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=196182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}