ORLANDO, Fla. – In the span of a day or two, portions of Flagler, Volusia, and Brevard counties racked up another 4-6 inches of rain, with some localized spots receiving even higher totals!
This adds on to the several inches of rain that piled up this time last weekend.
Talk about above average rainfall!
But now we can finally rip the Band-Aid off and focus on the GOOD news – fall has arrived.
If you step outside this evening, you probably notice a vast difference in the air. The wind is still blowing, and maybe some light sprinkles are still lingering in your neighborhood. But all in all, the dry is finally pushing in and skies will clear tomorrow.
With a sudden drop in relative humidity across the state, the more mild temperatures will actually feel mild. We’ve lost the moisture component that left the air feeling heavy and thick, regardless of what the actual temperature may read.
Because we’ve got leftover remnants of our coastal low that now spins off the coast of the Carolina’s, a lot of the moisture still spending some time with us remains in the lowest portions of the atmosphere. If you look outside, you’ll see the clouds are sitting very low across the horizon, and moving pretty fast too.
The fall air mass is beginning to move in, almost top to bottom with time. Skies will be mostly clear with maybe some stray cloud cover tomorrow as residual moisture carries on off our east coast, and then Monday-Tuesday will get even better.
Our morning temperatures will linger in the upper 60s and low 70s, with afternoon highs for tomorrow, Monday, and Tuesday struggling to reach the mid 80s. Remember, the humidity is what adds a quality touch here, so it will feel cooler for us whenever we head out the door.
Rain chances will continue to absolutely plummet after tonight, as dry air really dominates our local weather pattern through the upcoming week. Some computer models suggest we’ll receive a reinforcing push of dry, continental air from up north as we approach next weekend.
As this next attempt at cooler air tries to come down, there is a very low potential along the leading edge we’ll see a subtle nudge of moisture and some showers for the eastern half of our peninsula. But even this seems rather unlikely, given the high pressure conditions drying out the air before the rain can really hit the ground.
Is fall looking to fully stick around Florida from here on out?
What’s interesting to note as well, two days after the Hurricane Milton landfall anniversary, this time last year we also received our first noticeable push of cooler temperatures and polar high pressure.
Looks like we lucked out this go around with only the push of cooler air, without the major hurricane preceding it!