Central Florida is in store for near record heat Saturday before a storm front with strong thunderstorms moves into the region in the afternoon and evening, according to the National Weather Service in Melbourne.<\/p>\n
Temperatures will hit the upper 80s and mid 90s including along the coast because of a lack of seabreeze that will keep conditions hot longer.<\/p>\n
Winds will also begin to kick up to about 20 mph with gusts of 30-35 mph in the late morning and afternoon.<\/p>\n
Severe thunderstorms will then move into the area with a greater risk in Orange, Seminole, Osceola and Brevard counties as rain chances increase into Saturday night and into Sunday.<\/p>\n
The primary storm hazard will come from wind gusts that could hit 60 mph and associated lightning, although there is also a low chance for hail and a tornado. Heavy rainfall could also lead to local flooding.<\/p>\n
Wind issues and a low relative humidity mean critical fire weather conditions continue for Osceola, southern Brevard, Indian River, Okeechobee, St. Lucie, and Martin counties. The NWS has issued a red flag warning in effect from noon through 7 p.m. while very sensitive fire weather conditions continue to the north.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Central Florida is in store for near record heat Saturday before a storm front with strong thunderstorms moves…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,114,266,115,109,221],"class_list":["post-255370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-social","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255370","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=255370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}