Orlando's Rain Got Heavier Overnight: Monday Is Now a 91 Percent Rain Day Under the Flood Watch — but Election Day Improved to Showers at 35 Percent
The station's live feed at 1:27 a.m. puts Orlando at 69.7 degrees in drizzle, raises Monday to a 91 percent rain chance with a high of only 74.7, and trims Tuesday's Election Day rain to showers at 35 percent — the wettest day of the week is Monday, not Tuesday.
The rain over Orlando did not ease overnight — it organized. The station's live feed, read at 1:27 a.m. Central, shows 69.7 degrees with drizzle falling and a 91 percent precipitation chance for Monday, under a rain code with a high of just 74.7 degrees — nearly three degrees cooler than Sunday evening's reading. The National Weather Service flood watch for Orange, Osceola and Seminole Counties, issued Sunday evening, runs through Monday at 3 p.m., and Monday is now, by the feed's numbers, the wettest day of the week by a wide margin.
The improvement is on the other side of Monday. Election Day, Tuesday, now carries a rain-showers code with a 35 percent precipitation chance and a high of 79.7 — down from the 57 percent rain reading the feed carried on Sunday. Wednesday holds showers at 46 percent with a high of 85.6, Thursday turns hot and mostly dry at 89.7 with rain at 10 percent, and Friday follows at 86.1. The weekend is the payoff the whole week points at: Saturday is clear with a high of 83.7 and the week's coolest low, 65.9, and Sunday stays clear at 79.4.
For Monday itself, the practical read is the one the flood watch was written for: rain through the morning drive and the school run, standing water in the low spots that always collect it, and a cool, grey afternoon before the watch expires at 3 p.m. Voters planning around Tuesday's weather can plan lighter than they feared on Sunday night — showers, not a washout — but Monday's errands are the ones that need the umbrella and the extra minutes.
