{"id":386105,"date":"2026-08-31T13:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T13:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/386105\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T13:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T13:32:09","slug":"scattered-and-numerous-lightning-storm-chances-extend-until-late-evening-orlando-sentinel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/386105\/","title":{"rendered":"Scattered and numerous lightning storm chances extend until late evening \u2013 Orlando Sentinel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scattered to numerous lightning storms are expected around Central Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Those storms are expected in the afternoon and evenings before ending around 9 p.m., according to NWS Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p>Primary hazards include frequent lightning, wind gusts up to 50 mph and heavy rainfall.<\/p>\n<p>A moderate risk for heat covers a majority of Central Florida except for Greater Orlando, which has a major risk for heat.<\/p>\n<p>Temperatures are seasonably high in the 80s and 90s with heat indices peaking at 107 degrees.<\/p>\n<p>There is a moderate risk for rip currents at all east Central Florida beaches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scattered to numerous lightning storms are expected around Central Florida. Those storms are expected in the afternoon and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386106,"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-386105","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\/386105","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=386105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}