Orlando Evening Weather: Overcast at 73.4 After a 74.3 Day — Election Day Tops Out at 78.8 With Rain Showers
The station's live feed puts Orlando at 73.4 degrees under overcast skies on Monday evening, and Election Day has cooled in the forecast: a high of 78.8 with rain showers coded and a 34 percent rain chance before midweek warmth returns.
Orlando ends its flood-watch Monday grey and mild. The station's live weather feed, read at 5:27 p.m. Central, puts the city at 73.4 degrees and feeling like 78.7 under overcast skies — essentially at the day's high of 74.3, with the low at 65.2 and the day's rain probability at 97 percent. It was a day the rain mostly fell east of the city: Brevard County, an hour away, took 20 inches in 24 hours in its hardest-hit neighborhoods while Orlando sat under the same system's cloud shield.
Election Day itself has cooled in the feed. Tuesday is coded for rain showers with a high of 78.8 degrees, a low of 71 and a 34 percent precipitation probability — noticeably cooler than the 81 degrees the feed carried this morning. Voters heading to the polls between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. should expect a warm, unsettled day rather than a washout, and anyone east toward the Space Coast should remember that the coastal flood watch — Brevard, Volusia, Indian River, St. Lucie, Martin and Okeechobee — runs through Tuesday morning; Orlando's own flood watch ends Monday evening, and Orange, Osceola and Seminole are not in the coastal extension.
Behind Election Day, the week warms fast. Wednesday reaches 85.6 degrees with light rain possible, Thursday turns overcast and hot at 88.1, and Friday is coded for thunderstorms with a high of 89.2 — the week's warmest day. Saturday stays overcast at 86.7 before Sunday cools to 80.2 with drizzle possible. The pattern, in one line: a wet, grey Election Day, then a quick return to late-summer heat to close the week.
