{"id":241109,"date":"2026-04-22T00:07:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T00:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/241109\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T00:07:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T00:07:14","slug":"southwest-florida-weather-forecast-weather-authority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/241109\/","title":{"rendered":"Southwest Florida Weather Forecast | Weather Authority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    &#8230;CRITICALLY LOW HUMIDITY WITH GUSTY WINDS AND A MODERATE<br \/>\nSIGNIFICANT FIRE POTENTIAL WILL RESULT IN AN ELEVATED FIRE DANGER<br \/>\nTODAY AND AGAIN ON TUESDAY&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING<br \/>\nFOR West Central and Southwest Florida&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>* AFFECTED AREA&#8230;Sumter, Pinellas, Polk, Hardee, Highlands,<br \/>\nDeSoto, Coastal Levy, Coastal Citrus, Coastal Hernando,<br \/>\nCoastal Pasco, Coastal Hillsborough, Coastal Manatee, Coastal<br \/>\nSarasota, Coastal Charlotte, Coastal Lee, Inland Levy, Inland<br \/>\nCitrus, Inland Hernando, Inland Pasco, Inland Hillsborough,<br \/>\nInland Manatee, Inland Sarasota, Inland Charlotte and Inland<br \/>\nLee.<\/p>\n<p>* TIMING&#8230;Until 8 PM EDT this evening.<\/p>\n<p>* WINDS&#8230;East 10 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.<\/p>\n<p>* RELATIVE HUMIDITY&#8230;As low as 29 percent.<\/p>\n<p>* IMPACTS&#8230;Any fire that develops will catch and spread<br \/>\nquickly. Outdoor burning is not recommended.<\/p>\n<p>PRECAUTIONARY\/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>A Red Flag Warning means that critical fire weather conditions<br \/>\nare either occurring now, or will shortly. A combination of<br \/>\nstrong winds, low relative humidity, and dry fuels can contribute<br \/>\nto extreme fire behavior.<\/p>\n<p>&amp;&amp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8230;CRITICALLY LOW HUMIDITY WITH GUSTY WINDS AND A MODERATE SIGNIFICANT FIRE POTENTIAL WILL RESULT IN AN ELEVATED FIRE&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,221],"class_list":["post-241109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241109","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=241109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}