{"id":445182,"date":"2026-11-02T15:50:22","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T15:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/445182\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T15:50:22","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T15:50:22","slug":"flood-watch-in-effect-for-orlando-area-until-later-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/445182\/","title":{"rendered":"Flood Watch in Effect for Orlando Area Until Later Tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is a flood watch for all of East Central Florida, including the Orlando attractions area, now through later tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Flood Watch in Effect for Orlando Area<a data-fslightbox=\"1\" data-type=\"image\" aria-label=\"Open fullscreen lightbox with current image\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/orlando_flood_watch_effect.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/orlando_flood_watch_effect.jpg\" alt=\"Flood Watch in Effect for Orlando Area Until Later Tonight\" class=\"wp-image-1518277\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weather.gov\/mlb\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" aria-describedby=\"external-link-warning\">National Weather Service<\/a> on Monday, November 2, 2026, there is a flood watch currently in effect until 7:00 p.m. tonight. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The website warns there may be widespread rainfall of one to three inches, with a 10 percent chance of five inches or more. This could lead to flooding in low-lying areas and on roads.<\/p>\n<p><a data-fslightbox=\"1\" data-type=\"image\" aria-label=\"Open fullscreen lightbox with current image\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/orlando_flood_watch_effect-2-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1174\" height=\"673\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/orlando_flood_watch_effect-2-1.png\" alt=\"Flood Watch in Effect for Orlando Area Until Later Tonight\" class=\"wp-image-1518279\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here are the cities and surrounding areas affected by the flood watch: <\/p>\n<p>Orlando<\/p>\n<p>Deltona<\/p>\n<p>Leesburg<\/p>\n<p>Okeechobee<\/p>\n<p>Sanford<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Other cities, including Titusville, Melbourne, Sebring, and Palm Bay, are under a flash flood warning, while Stuart and Fort Pierce are under a coastal flood advisory. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite the flood watch, theme parks including Walt Disney World Resort and Universal Orlando Resort remain open. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier this month, <a href=\"https:\/\/wdwnt.com\/2026\/10\/noaa-predicts-above-average-rain-this-winter-at-walt-disney-world\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" aria-describedby=\"external-link-warning\">NOAA predicted<\/a> that the Walt Disney World Resort area has an elevated chance of receiving above-average rainfall this winter due to the looming El Ni\u00f1o.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Check out how <a href=\"https:\/\/wdwnt.com\/2026\/08\/disney-clarifies-rain-and-severe-weather-policy-for-mickeys-not-so-scary-halloween-party-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" aria-describedby=\"external-link-warning\">Disney clarified their rain and severe weather policy for their recent Mickey\u2019s Not-So-Scary Halloween Party<\/a>, as this could also apply to <a href=\"https:\/\/disneyworld.disney.go.com\/events-tours\/magic-kingdom\/mickeys-very-merry-christmas-party\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" aria-describedby=\"external-link-warning\">Mickey\u2019s Very Merry Christmas Party<\/a> this winter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Will this flood watch affect your theme park visits? Let us know on social media. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the latest Disney Parks news and info, follow <a href=\"https:\/\/wdwnt.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" aria-describedby=\"external-link-warning\">WDW News Today<\/a> on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wdwnt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" aria-describedby=\"external-link-warning\">Twitter<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WDWNewsToday\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" aria-describedby=\"external-link-warning\">Facebook<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/wdwnt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" aria-describedby=\"external-link-warning\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There is a flood watch for all of East Central Florida, including the Orlando attractions area, now through&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[16979,139,17538,141,140,2749,30128,221],"class_list":["post-445182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-flood-watch","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-flood-watch","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-universal-orlando-resort","tag-walt-disney-world-resort","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445182","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=445182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}