Orlando's Election Day Weather: Showers in the Forecast for the 7-to-7 Vote, a High Near 80 — Then a Warm-Up to 88 and 90 by Thursday and Friday
Orlando wakes up overcast at 72 on Election Day, and the station's live feed now carries rain showers — not just drizzle — in Tuesday's forecast at a 28 percent chance, before the week turns hot: 88 on Thursday and just under 90 on Friday.
Election Day in Orlando comes with an umbrella advisory. The station's live Open-Meteo feed at cycle time reads 71.9 degrees and overcast, and Tuesday's forecast code has come up to 81 — rain showers — with a high of 79.9, a low of 71 and a 28 percent precipitation chance. That is a step wetter than the drizzle codes the feed carried through Monday afternoon: most of the 7 a.m.-to-7 p.m. voting day should be merely grey, but passing showers are in the picture for the morning and evening trips to the polls, on roads still wet from Monday's flood-watch day.
Wednesday stays cloudy and mild behind the vote — overcast, a high of 80.7 and a low of 70.6, with the precipitation chance easing to 27 percent. Then the week turns: Thursday is overcast but jumps to 88.1 with the rain chance down to 8 percent, and Friday reaches 89.7 — the hottest day of the week — with the chance at 3 percent. For a city that spent Monday watching the Space Coast take 20 inches of rain, a hot, dry end to the week is the recovery weather Central Florida needed.
The weekend cools only slightly: Saturday carries light drizzle at 87.1 degrees and a 6 percent precipitation chance, Sunday is overcast at 83.3, and next Monday turns mostly clear at 82.1 with the week's coolest morning, 65.9. The Election Day instruction stands apart from the forecast: showers or not, the polls are open 7 to 7, and anyone in line at 7 p.m. votes.
