{"id":216033,"date":"2026-04-02T13:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T13:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/216033\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T13:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T13:26:11","slug":"rain-and-thunderstorms-expected-in-the-early-afternoon-orlando-sentinel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/216033\/","title":{"rendered":"Rain and thunderstorms expected in the early afternoon \u2013 Orlando Sentinel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Central Florida residents should expect rain in the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>There is a slight chance of showers between 1 p.m. and 2 p.m., then a chance of thunderstorms after 2 p.m., according to NWS Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p>Rain chances are at 50 percent with new rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, with higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday will also be sunny with a high near 85.<\/p>\n<p>There is a high risk or life-threatening rip currents at Central Florida Atlantic beaches.<\/p>\n<p>Small craft should exercise caution near inlets and over offshore waters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Central Florida residents should expect rain in the afternoon. There is a slight chance of showers between 1&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216034,"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-216033","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\/216033","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=216033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}