{"id":329913,"date":"2026-07-05T12:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T12:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/329913\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T12:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T12:43:09","slug":"storms-arrive-early-this-afternoon-across-central-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/329913\/","title":{"rendered":"Storms arrive early this afternoon across Central Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Storms arrive early this afternoon across Central Florida<\/p>\n<p>Track them hour-by-hour with meteorologist Victoria Wisniewski<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBUT WE ARE A 75% CHANCE OF A GO. HERE\u2019S A LOOK AT YOUR CERTIFIED MOST ACCURATE SEVEN DAY FORECAST ACROSS THE SUNSHINE STATE. WE\u2019RE GOING TO CONTINUE WITH TEMPERATURES IN THE MID 90S. AND AS WE HEAD THROUGHOUT THE WEEK, WE REMAIN CONSISTENT IN TERMS OF THE HUMIDITY AND THE HEAT. BUT OUR RAIN CHANCES ARE GOING TO DROP 50% BY WEDNESDAY AND DOWN TO 30 AND 20% AS WE HEAD INTO FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. SO HERE\u2019S THE SETUP AS WE HEAD INTO THE UPCOMING WEEK. STILL, THIS NORMAL JULY PATTERN, HUMID AND DRY THROUGH THE MORNINGS, SEA BREEZE HAS BECOME ACTIVE AS WE HEAD THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOONS. BY MIDWEEK, WE ARE GOING TO BE LOOKING AT A COLD FRONT APPROACHING FROM THE SOUTHEAST. THAT\u2019S GOING TO BE KEEPING OUR SEA BREEZES QUITE ACTIVE, AND WE WILL EVENTUALLY SEE OUR RAIN CHANCES DROP, BUT FEELS LIKE TEMPERATURES FOR TODAY. UPPER 90S NEAR 100 DEGREES AS WE HEAD THROUGHOUT THIS AFTERNOON BETWEEN 2 TO 4 P.M. STAY HYDRATED AND FIND WAYS TO COOL DOWN. LOOKING AT 93 AS YOUR TEMPERATURE IN ORLANDO, 92 TOWARDS THE LAND AT 88 UP NEAR PALM COAST. OF COURSE YOU GUYS ARE GOING TO BE COOLER A LITTLE FURTHER NORTH, BUT EVERYONE ACROSS CENTRAL FLORIDA WILL BE FEELING THE HEAT. SATELLITE AND RADAR IS MOSTLY CLEAR ACROSS THE SUNSHINE STATE, CLOSER TO ORLANDO, BUT JUST TO OUR WEST, WE ARE LOOKING AT A COUPLE SHOWERS AND STORMS. SO THE WESTERLY SEA BREEZES WILL BE GETTING KICKED UP A LITTLE BIT EARLIER. AROUND THE 3 P.M. TIME FRAME. BUT IF THEY START OUT EARLIER, THEY ARE GOING TO END EARLIER. THAT\u2019S ALWAYS SOME GOOD NEWS. HERE\u2019S A LOOK OUTSIDE RIGHT NOW. BEAUTIFUL SUNRISE COMING OUT OF NEW SMYRNA BEACH. BUT THE FORECAST FOR TODAY, IT\u2019S GOING TO BE OKAY BECAUSE THE STORMS ARE GOING TO BE AROUND ALREADY BY 3 P.M. SO BETWEEN THREE TO ABOUT 6 TO 7 P.M., I\u2019D SAY IS GOING TO BE OUR LARGEST COVERAGE OF STORMS. HERE\u2019S A 12 HOUR FORECAST. AS THE HEAT CONTINUES, WE\u2019RE GOING TO REACH PEAK HEATING THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. AND THEN OUR STORMS ARE GOING TO BE ARRIVING. THIS IS ALONG THE COASTLINE WHERE TEMPERATURES MAY BE COOLER. WE\u2019RE STILL GOING TO BE LOOKING AT A MUCH HIGHER RAIN STORM COVERAGE. IF YOU\u2019RE TRYING TO HIT THE BEACH A LITTLE BIT EARLIER, KEEP IN MIND THAT EVEN THOUGH WE DON\u2019T HAVE A RIP CURRENT STATEMENT OUT FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE, WE ARE STILL LOOKING AT MODERATE TO HIGH RIP CURRENTS TO BE THE RISK AS WE HEAD THROUGHOUT TODAY. BUT THAT ACTUALLY DROPS OFF AS WE HEAD INTO THE UPCOMING WEEK. LET\u2019S TALK ABOUT FUTURECAST HERE, WHERE WE BEGIN PRETTY EARLY WITH OUR WESTERLY SEA BREEZES. AND THEY\u2019LL MOVE FROM WEST TO EAST. WE SEE A MUCH LARGER RAIN COVERAGE AS WE HEAD THROUGHOUT THIS AFTERNOON. BUT THEN, AS THIS WESTERLY SEA BREEZE INTERACTS WITH THE SEA BREEZE ON THE EAST COAST, THAT\u2019S WHERE WE SEE THAT STRONGER RAIN COVERAGE. BUT YOU CAN NOTICE ALREADY BY 6 P.M., WE ARE CLEARING OUT. SO WE\u2019LL CONTINUE TO MONITOR THAT FOR YOU, ESPECIALLY AS WE HAVE FREQUENT THUNDER AND LIGHTNING WITH THESE STORMS AND POTENTIALLY SOME GUSTY WINDS AS WELL. SO A COUPLE OF THOSE CELLS COULD BE ON THE STRONGER SIDE. AND WE WILL SEE A SIMILAR TREND AS WE HEAD INTO YOUR MONDAY. BUT RAI\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Storms arrive early this afternoon across Central Florida<\/p>\n<p>Track them hour-by-hour with meteorologist Victoria Wisniewski<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768911270_880_wesh.png\" class=\"lazyload lazyload-in-view branding\" alt=\"WESH logo\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tUpdated: 8:23 AM EDT Jul 5, 2026\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wesh.com\/article\/hearst-television-news-policy-statements\/14471973\" class=\"editorial-standards border-left\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Editorial Standards \u24d8<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Storms arrive early this afternoon across Central Florida Track them hour-by-hour with meteorologist Victoria Wisniewski BUT WE ARE&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-329913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329913","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=329913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}