{"id":362385,"date":"2026-08-04T10:50:32","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T10:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/362385\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T10:50:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T10:50:32","slug":"lightning-storms-expected-for-early-afternoon-and-evening-orlando-sentinel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/362385\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning storms expected for early afternoon and evening \u2013 Orlando Sentinel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monday will be mainly dry before scattered to numerous showers and lightning storms develop in the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>There is a marginal risk of excessive rainfall across all of east Central Florida, according to NWS Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p>Rain chances are at 50 percent, mainly after 1 p.m. and while most areas will see less than an inch of rain, localized areas could see two to four inches where heavy rains persist.<\/p>\n<p>A few gusty storms with winds up to 50 mph and locally heavy rain are expected to accompany the stronger storms, especially along the coast.<\/p>\n<p>Temperatures will be in the high 80s to low 90s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Monday will be mainly dry before scattered to numerous showers and lightning storms develop in the afternoon. There&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362386,"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-362385","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\/362385","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=362385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}