{"id":312680,"date":"2026-06-19T04:10:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T04:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/312680\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T04:10:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T04:10:12","slug":"swfl-heat-advisory-fort-myers-shores-community-ditches-most-outdoor-activities-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/312680\/","title":{"rendered":"SWFL heat advisory: Fort Myers Shores community ditches most outdoor activities | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"

FORT MYERS SHORES, Fla. (WINK)\u2014The WINK Weather Authority<\/a> says the heat is dangerous, and it’s being felt all over Southwest Florida.<\/p>\n

WINK News visited Orange Harbor Co-op and RV Park in Fort Myers Shores to see how residents are coping with the extreme temperatures<\/a>. The pickleball courts are empty, and the shuffleboard lanes are silent.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought, oh no, here we go, another day before 9 o’clock it was already 85 degrees, feeling like 95 degrees,\u201d Pattie Porter said.<\/p>\n

\"Heat<\/p>\n

Porter and her neighbors say there’s only one place to be on a day like this\u2014the pool.<\/p>\n

“I actually come to water aerobics in the morning, and then I come and I do a little float with all my friends,\u201d Porter said.<\/p>\n

Bob Cochran, another Orange Harbor resident, says he’s been going to the pool every day. He’s avoiding outdoor activities he would normally do, like weed eating.<\/p>\n

“I have been going to the pool every day, and that helps, but it, no, it’s hot out,” Cochran said. “I don’t do any outside activities. I would normally be weed eating or something. No, staying in, too hot.”<\/p>\n

\"Heat<\/p>\n

Some neighbors say the heat is overworking their air conditioning units. Porter says her household has three different air conditioners, and they had problems with one.<\/p>\n

RELATED:\u00a0Southwest Floridians find ways to beat the heat as experts warn dehydration can happen fast<\/a><\/p>\n

“We have three different air conditioners, and we had problems with one, so we basically just shut that part of the house off until we could get a gentleman in here,” Porter said. \u201cUnfortunately, because other people are having some issues, it took a couple of days before I had anyone, but it’s all taken care of now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Residents emphasize the importance of staying hydrated during the extreme heat.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I start with a lot of water before I allow myself to have the more enjoyable stuff,”\u00a0Karen Toft, another Orange Harbor resident<\/p>\n

The heat advisory is in effect until this evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT MYERS SHORES, Fla. (WINK)\u2014The WINK Weather Authority says the heat is dangerous, and it’s being felt all…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,28,21316,127953,130252,1521,56903],"class_list":["post-312680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-florida","tag-fort-myers-shores","tag-heat-advisory","tag-orange-harbor","tag-southwest-florida","tag-wink-weather-authority"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312680","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=312680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}