{"id":261878,"date":"2026-05-07T11:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T11:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/261878\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T11:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T11:32:10","slug":"record-breaking-heat-and-increased-fire-threat-thursday-in-central-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/261878\/","title":{"rendered":"Record-breaking heat and increased fire threat Thursday in Central Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/9fc136a3ee93d43b887506f5b27fc7a0.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Record-breaking heat and increased fire threat Thursday in Central Florida<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Record-breaking heat will arrive on Thursday in Central Florida.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Daytime highs will hit the low to mid-90s, likely breaking records in many locations Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In addition, it will be dry and breezy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Winds will be out of the west-southwest around 10 to 15 mph, with gusts near 25 mph.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">High fire concerns are also in place on Thursday, with Red Flag Warnings up for many counties across Central Florida.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/mobile-apps\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Click here;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Click here&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and smart TV apps. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:click here;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;click here&quot;}\" class=\"link \">click here<\/a> to stream Channel 9 Eyewitness News live.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"ct:story;elm:img;itc:0;\" class=\"stretched-box\" href=\"https:\/\/wftvapps.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"537\" height=\"108\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/beda08358d6db9816e7b0d066edd22cf.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Record-breaking heat and increased fire threat Thursday in Central Florida Record-breaking heat will arrive on Thursday in Central&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[113063,147,32390,80941,28,30,29,87920],"class_list":["post-261878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-breaking-records","tag-central-florida","tag-daytime-highs","tag-fire-concerns","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-record-breaking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261878","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=261878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}