Orlando at Night: 74.6 and Overcast as the Flood Watch Expires — Election Day Warms Back Up to 80.6
Orlando closes its flood-watch Monday at 74.6 degrees under overcast skies, and the feed has revised Election Day warmer again: a high of 80.6 with rain showers coded and a 37 percent rain chance, before the week's heat builds to 89.2 on Friday.
Orlando's wet Monday is ending the way it spent the day: grey, mild and damp. The station's live weather feed, read at 7:27 p.m. Central, puts the city at 74.6 degrees and feeling like 80 under overcast skies — a hair under the day's final high of 74.8, with the low at 65.2 and the day's rain probability at 97 percent. The wider flood watch that covered the region remained in force until 7 p.m., and with it expired, Orlando's own flood day is officially over; the emergency continues an hour east in Brevard County, where 22 inches fell.
Election Day has warmed back up in the feed. Tuesday is coded for rain showers with a high of 80.6 degrees, a low of 71 and a 37 percent precipitation probability — the high raised from the 78.8 the feed carried two hours ago, with the rain chance nudged up from 34 percent. The practical reading for voters is unchanged: a warm, unsettled day at the polls between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m., with passing showers possible rather than a washout, and anyone driving east toward Brevard precincts or family should still expect flood impacts on the coast.
The rest of the week keeps climbing. Wednesday reaches 85.6 degrees with light rain possible, Thursday turns overcast at 88.1, and Friday's high is 89.2 — and the thunderstorm code the feed briefly put on Friday has been dropped back to overcast, with the rain chance down to 8 percent. Saturday stays overcast at 86.7 before Sunday cools to 80.2 with drizzle possible. Monday's flood system, in the feed's telling, buys Orlando exactly one grey Election Day before late-summer heat takes the week back.
