{"id":346640,"date":"2026-07-20T23:39:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T23:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/346640\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T23:39:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T23:39:19","slug":"storms-bring-heavy-rain-and-lightning-to-central-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/346640\/","title":{"rendered":"Storms Bring Heavy Rain and Lightning to Central Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Heavy rain soaked parts of central Florida on Monday, July 20, as the National Weather Service (NWS) <a data-ylk=\"slk:warned;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NWSMelbourne\/status\/2079137092647497895?s=20\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">warned<\/a> of bands of northward-moving showers and storms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Footage here shows a downpour with thunder and lightning in Kissimmee on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The NWS <a data-ylk=\"slk:said;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NWSMelbourne\/status\/2079137092647497895?s=20\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> lightning, gusty winds, and minor flooding would be possible as a result of the storms. Credit: @piquecantropus via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heavy rain soaked parts of central Florida on Monday, July 20, as the National Weather Service (NWS) warned&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[147,28,30,29,1161,2072,141924],"class_list":["post-346640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-central-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-heavy-rain","tag-national-weather-service","tag-thunder-and-lightning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346640","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=346640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}