{"id":361346,"date":"2026-08-03T10:18:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T10:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/361346\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T10:18:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T10:18:15","slug":"strong-storms-heavy-rain-expected-across-central-florida-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/361346\/","title":{"rendered":"Strong storms, heavy rain expected across Central Florida today"},"content":{"rendered":"

Strong storms, heavy rain expected across Central Florida today<\/p>\n

\"Cam<\/a>ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014<\/p>\n

Central Florida is facing hot and muggy conditions today, with rounds of rain expected across the region. <\/p>\n

A few showers are currently affecting northern areas, including Marion County, where the western portion is under a flood watch through tonight. <\/p>\n

The bulk of the rain is anticipated later this afternoon and early evening, with some storms potentially becoming strong or isolated severe. <\/p>\n

This weather pattern is expected to repeat tomorrow, with an even wetter trend forecasted later in the week as a big plume of moisture moves into the area.<\/p>\n

First Warning Weather <\/p>\n

Stay with WESH 2 online and on-air for the most accurate Central Florida weather forecast.<\/p>\n

Download the WESH 2 News app<\/a> to get the most up-to-date weather alerts. <\/p>\n

The First Warning Weather team includes First Warning Chief Meteorologist Tony Mainolfi<\/a>, Eric Burris<\/a>, Luke Vickery<\/a>, Cam Tran<\/a> and Victoria Wisniewski<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Strong storms, heavy rain expected across Central Florida today ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 Central Florida is facing hot and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8493,147088,26849,39534,26988,5124,89135,5120,16979,28,30,29,1161,144836,147089,147087,66294,10209,918],"class_list":["post-361346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-afternoon","tag-big-plume","tag-cam-tran","tag-central-florida-today","tag-early-evening","tag-eric-burris","tag-fields","tag-first-warning-weather","tag-flood-watch","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-heavy-rain","tag-luke-vickery","tag-moisture-move","tag-northern-area","tag-strong-storm","tag-tonight","tag-wesh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361346","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=361346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}