Orlando Late-Afternoon Weather: Cooling to 72.7 Under Grey Skies — and Election Day's High Has Been Cut to 78.8
Orlando sits at 72.7 degrees and overcast in the late afternoon, down from the day's 74.1 high, with Monday still a 97 percent rain day under a flood watch that expires at 7 p.m. Election Day keeps its heavy-rain code at a 30 percent chance, but its high has been revised down more than two degrees, to 78.8 — and the rest of the week is drying out on the feed.
Orlando's flood Monday is cooling into its evening. The station's live Open-Meteo feed reads 72.7 degrees, feeling like 77.4, under an overcast sky — down from the 74.1 that stands as the day's high, with the low still ahead at 65.2. Monday remains a 97 percent precipitation day on the feed, and Orlando's own Flood Watch — for Orange, Osceola and Seminole Counties — still runs to 7 p.m. The longer watch extension the Weather Service issued this afternoon, through Tuesday morning, covers Brevard, Volusia, Indian River, St. Lucie, Martin and Okeechobee Counties; Orlando is not on that list.
Election Day's number moved again, this time on temperature. Tuesday still carries the heavy-rain weather code with a 30 percent precipitation chance, but its high has been cut to 78.8 degrees — it read 81 at midday — with a low of 71.0. The pattern across today's readings is consistent in one respect: some rain stays in the Election Day picture at a minority chance, and the day gets a little cooler each time the feed updates. Polls are open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.; a damp, upper-70s trip is the current planning picture.
Behind Tuesday, the week is drying on schedule. Wednesday now reads 85.5 degrees with its rain chance down to 28 percent, Thursday holds mostly dry and overcast at 87.5 with a 13 percent chance, Friday reaches 87.8 with the chance down to 8 percent, and Saturday reads 86.0 at just 6 percent. Monday's last weather business is the watch itself — any band that trains over the metro before 7 p.m. falls on saturated ground, which is why the evening drive still gets the flood file's respect.
