Central Florida can expect high rain chances to start the work week with similar conditions in the days ahead, according to the National Weather Service in Melbourne.<\/p>\n
The region is under a wet and unsettled pattern expected to last through the weekend and into next week.<\/p>\n
\u201cLightning storms are forecast to develop along and ahead a cold front across east Central Florida into the afternoon and evening hours,\u201d the NWS stated. \u201cThe greatest chance for rain showers and lightning storms is between 2 p.m. and midnight with the highest chances across areas from Melbourne to Lake Kissimmee northwards.\u201d<\/p>\n
Some areas could get from 2 to 2.5 inches of rain, but storms won\u2019t have as high a chance to be severe.<\/p>\n
Temperatures are expected to climb into the high 80s on the coast and low 90s in the interior, but the heat index could climb from the mid-90s to 103 degrees.<\/p>\n
The cold front is expected to stall and meander between northern Florida and middle half of east Central Florida through midweek, bringing the higher chances for more rain.<\/p>\n
\u201cNumerous to widespread showers (60-90% chance) and lightning storms are forecast to develop each day with the highest chances generally during the afternoon and evening hours (12PM-2AM),\u201d forecasters stated.<\/p>\n
Afternoon highs will be in the low to upper 80s and overnight lows in the upper 60s to mid 70s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Central Florida can expect high rain chances to start the work week with similar conditions in the days…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,114,266,115,109,221],"class_list":["post-419139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-social","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419139","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=419139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}