Orlando's Mid-Morning Weather: Drizzle at 70, Monday Still a 97 Percent Rain Day — and Election Day's Rain Chance Has Fallen to 20 Percent

The rain over Orlando is easing by degrees, in the feed's own wording. At 9:27 a.m. Central the station's live weather feed puts the city at 70.1 degrees, feeling like 73, under weather code 51 — light drizzle — where the pre-dawn readings carried heavy rain and the 7:27 reading carried plain overcast. Monday itself has not been reprieved: its code firmed to 81, rain showers, its high trimmed to 77, and its precipitation chance still sits at 97 percent, with the National Weather Service in Melbourne's Flood Watch for Orange, Osceola and Seminole Counties still running until 7 p.m.

The number that changed the day belongs to Tuesday. Election Day's precipitation chance has fallen to 20 percent — down from the 48 percent the feed carried at 7:27 a.m. — with a high of 81 degrees and a low of 71.6. Its weather code still reads 81, rain showers, so the honest reading is not a guaranteed dry vote: it is a day on which showers remain possible but the odds have swung from a coin flip to one-in-five. For an electorate that must vote at assigned precincts, in person, between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m., that is the difference between planning the trip around the weather and simply making it.

The rest of the week keeps its shape. Wednesday holds a 37 percent rain chance at 85.3 degrees, Thursday warms to 88.0 with rain down to 13 percent, Friday carries 87.7 at 11 percent, and Saturday remains the week's clear payoff at 84.6 degrees and 7 percent. Between here and there stands the rest of Monday: a flood watch until evening, a 97 percent rain day still in progress, and roads — filed separately by the Traffic and Florida desks — that have already shown what this storm does to them.