{"id":282780,"date":"2026-05-24T13:45:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T13:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/282780\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T13:45:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T13:45:25","slug":"rain-and-thunderstorms-to-continue-impacting-central-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/282780\/","title":{"rendered":"Rain and thunderstorms to continue impacting Central Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Sunday morning kicked off with continued rain chances from last night. Most of the rain has been light to moderate, and heavier rain is possible later today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Our main impact from these showers is pockets of heavy rain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A few rumbles of thunder may return this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Morning Forecast: Sunday, May 24, 2026\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/4e8e66dc94c6c6ed902c847a2044381a.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Morning Forecast: Sunday, May 24, 2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Severe weather looks unlikely, but if we do see a strong thunderstorm develop, other impacts could be frequent lightning and wind gusts up to 40 mph.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">After a break from the rain in the early afternoon, some more thunderstorms are likely to develop between Orlando and the Atlantic coast due to the sea breeze.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This is where we could see the strongest storms today.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Morning Forecast: Sunday, May 24, 2026\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1b45d784fc6e44df8485b8a77173f6ee.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Morning Forecast: Sunday, May 24, 2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The heaviest rain will continue to be most likely to the west of Orlando and east of I-75 due to higher moisture content in the atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The rain will also increase humidity, contributing to a high heat index this afternoon, approaching 100\u00b0 at its peak.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This rain and heat trend is expected to last through the upcoming week.<\/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":"Sunday morning kicked off with continued rain chances from last night. Most of the rain has been light&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,8050,10173,14111],"class_list":["post-282780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-rain-chances","tag-severe-weather","tag-thunderstorm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282780","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=282780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}