{"id":263347,"date":"2026-05-08T12:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T12:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/263347\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T12:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T12:02:07","slug":"strong-storm-risk-from-early-afternoon-to-late-evening-orlando-sentinel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/263347\/","title":{"rendered":"Strong storm risk from early afternoon to late evening \u2013 Orlando Sentinel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, a strong storm risk poses a threat to Central Florida.<\/p>\n<p>A few strong to marginally severe storms are possible in the afternoon and evening, according to NWS Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p>The window begins after 2 p.m. and extends to 11 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The storms are primarily from Orlando and Cape Canaveral northward, but could affect other parts of the region.<\/p>\n<p>Hazards include lightning strikes, strong to damaging wind gusts and small hail.<\/p>\n<p>A brief tornado is also possible.<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise, skies are mostly sunny with a temperature high near 93 degrees, according to NWS Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p>Winds are blowing west to northwest at speeds of 5-10 mph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Friday, a strong storm risk poses a threat to Central Florida. A few strong to marginally severe&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263348,"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-263347","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\/263347","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=263347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}