Orlando Afternoon Weather: Overcast at 74 With the Day's High Already In, the Flood Watch Runs to 7 — and Election Day Still Carries a Rain Code
The station feed reads 74.1 degrees and overcast at mid-afternoon, and that is now Monday's high — the day has cooled into its ceiling. The Flood Watch covers east Central Florida until 7 p.m. with 1 to 3 more inches possible, and Tuesday's feed reading has shifted again: a heavy-rain code with a 30 percent chance for Election Day.
Orlando's flood Monday has settled into a grey afternoon. The station's live Open-Meteo feed reads 74.1 degrees, feeling like 78.6, under an overcast sky — and 74.1 is now the day's high, revised down from the 76.5 the feed carried at midday, with the low still to come at 65.2. Monday remains a 97 percent precipitation day on the feed. The National Weather Service in Melbourne says the stalled mid-level boundary over east Central Florida is still producing training bands of showers and thunderstorms, and its Flood Watch runs through 7 p.m. for all of east Central Florida, with an additional 1 to 3 inches of rain forecast through tonight and a 5 to 10 percent chance of 5 inches or more in isolated spots, on soils that are already saturated.
The number Orlando voters keep watching is Tuesday's, and it has moved again. Election Day now reads a heavy-rain weather code on the station feed with a 30 percent precipitation chance, a high of 81 and a low of 71.2 — at midday the same day carried a lighter shower code at 33 percent, and this morning it had read 20 percent. The honest summary is that the models have not settled Tuesday: every reading today has kept some rain in the Election Day picture, and none has made it a washout. Polls are open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.; the planning advice is unchanged — expect a damp trip at some point in the day and build a few extra minutes into it.
Behind Election Day, the drying trend the desk has carried all day is intact. Wednesday reads 85.5 degrees with a 37 percent chance, Thursday turns mostly overcast and dry at 87.5 with the chance down to 13 percent, and Friday reaches 87.8 with an 11 percent chance. The Weather Service's own outlook agrees with the shape of it: conditions stay unsettled into Tuesday, then coverage decreases through the middle of the week. Monday's remaining business is the flood watch itself — it does not expire until 7 p.m., and the roads that ponded this morning will pond again in any band that trains over the metro before then.
