{"id":274186,"date":"2026-05-17T13:42:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T13:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/274186\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T13:42:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T13:42:21","slug":"heat-instability-merging-sea-breezes-bring-stormy-afternoon-risk-to-northeast-florida-southeast-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/274186\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat, instability, merging sea breezes bring stormy afternoon risk to northeast Florida, southeast Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">JACKSONVILLE, Fla.  \u2013 The East Coast sea breeze is heading inland today, where it will collide with the Gulf Coast sea breeze front. And, along that line, scattered to numerous showers and thunderstorms will develop across the I-75 corridor of inland Northeast Florida. From there, storm activity will spread northward into inland Southeast Georgia through the evening hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Before storms arrive, it\u2019s going to feel sticky inland. Temperatures will push into the lower 90s, and with the humidity factored in, it\u2019ll feel close to 100 degrees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Otherwise, southeast winds of 15 to 25 mph will kick up and keep things a bit more bearable closer to the coast. Highs along the I-95 corridor should reach the upper 80s to near 90 degrees, with beaches staying cooler in the middle 80s.<\/p>\n<p>Evening storms fade; clearer, cooler night ahead<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The storms won\u2019t last all night. Activity over inland areas should start fading after sunset and wrap up by late evening. Southeast winds along the east coast will also ease by midnight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Overnight, drier air will help clear out, and temperatures will drop. Expect lows in the lower to middle 60s across inland southeast Georgia, mid-to-upper 60s across inland northeast Florida, and lower 70s along the Atlantic beaches.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by WJXT News4JAX &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 The East Coast sea breeze is heading inland today, where it will collide with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,508,221],"class_list":["post-274186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-forecast","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274186","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=274186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}