Orlando's Monday Rain Hardened Again Before Dawn: Heavy-Rain Code, 93 Percent — and Election Day Slipped Back to Drizzle at 48 Percent
The station's live feed at 3:27 a.m. shows 68.3 degrees under a heavy-rain code with Monday's precipitation chance at 93 percent — the flood watch runs to 3 p.m. — while Tuesday's Election Day outlook eased from showers to drizzle, but at a higher 48 percent chance.
Monday arrived wet and got wetter in the telling. The station's live feed, read at 3:27 a.m. Central, puts Orlando at 68.3 degrees under weather code 65 — the feed's heavy-rain tier — with a 93 percent precipitation chance for the day, a high of just 75.1 and a low of 68.2. That is a step up in intensity from the 01:27 reading (code 63, 91 percent), and it sits squarely inside the National Weather Service flood watch for Orange, Osceola and Seminole Counties, which runs through Monday at 3 p.m.; the watch's own rainfall outlook, reported this run, is 1 to 3 inches across most of the area with 5 to 7 inches or more possible in the spots where the heaviest bands set up, and flash flooding where they do.
Election Day moved the other way in kind, if not in odds. Tuesday now carries a drizzle code instead of rain showers — a lighter form of rain — but the chance of seeing it rose from 35 percent in the overnight file to 48 percent, with a high of 79.3. Wednesday holds showers at 47 percent and 85.6 degrees, Thursday turns hot at 89.7 with rain down to 16 percent, and Friday follows at 86.1. The weekend remains the clear payoff: Saturday sunny at 83.7 with the week's coolest low, 65.9, and Sunday sunny at 79.4.
For the Monday morning drive and the school run, the practical picture is the flood watch's picture: heavy rain at times, standing water in the usual low spots, and a cool grey afternoon until the watch expires at 3 p.m. Voters watching Tuesday can plan on possible drizzle rather than a washout — but the umbrella that Monday demands should stay by the door for Election Day too.
