{"id":358699,"date":"2026-07-31T11:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T11:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/358699\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T11:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T11:35:08","slug":"rain-chances-increased-on-friday-and-heading-into-the-weekend-orlando-sentinel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/358699\/","title":{"rendered":"Rain chances increased on Friday and heading into the weekend \u2013 Orlando Sentinel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Moisture is building inside of a surface boundary that stalled near north Florida.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Leesburg, Daytona Beach, Orlando, Melbourne and Port St. Lucie all have a 70 percent chance for rain, according to NWS Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p>There is a marginal risk for excessive rainfall across most of east Central Florida on Friday and Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Rain chances are expected to be elevated throughout the weekend, increasing to 80 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Temperatures are expected to cool down with skies being partly sunny and highs near 90 degrees.<\/p>\n<p>Winds are blowing west-southwest at 10 mph with gusts as high as 20 mph, according to NWS Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p>There is a moderate risk of rip currents at all area beaches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Moisture is building inside of a surface boundary that stalled near north Florida. On Friday, Leesburg, Daytona Beach,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[114,266,115,139,141,140,109,221],"class_list":["post-358699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-social","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358699","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=358699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}