ORLANDO, Fla. – Today was a warm one! High’s managed to climb back into the upper 80s for a lot of us across the state of Florida. Sunday looks to be a repeat of this, with a stormy twist.
Storm Prediction Center has the entirety of our viewing area highlighted for a level one, marginal risk of severe thunderstorms. The primary risk we’re pinpointing is damaging straight-line winds, followed up by the low potential for small hail.
We’re looking for showers and rains to start building on the western side of the state as the sun comes up, until about the lunch or brunch hour. That’s when our area becomes a bit more “uncapped” as it’s called, and storms will begin developing.
The first half of the day could give way to some sporty downpours, gusty winds, and lightning in isolated spots. The main event I believe begins towards the second half of your Sunday after around the 4-5 p.m. time frame.
There’s a weak impulse in our atmosphere that’s forecast to wander across the peninsula during the midday hours, resulting in a general increase in who sees the rain and storms during the daytime hours.
That’ll keep rains in the picture for a few of us all the way into the late evening period, as we prepare to cross into Monday.
The actual cold front isn’t set to come through us until very early Monday morning, sometime between midnight and 2 a.m.
As it does so, winds will quickly shift towards a northerly direction funneling in the dense layer of cold, dry air we’ve been awaiting and discussing the last few days leading up to this event.
Traditionally we see a little bit of a lag with such a shallow and thick mass of chilly air, so the coldest temperatures won’t settle in with us until we wake up Tuesday morning. But, your afternoon highs on Monday will have to fight to try and reach the 70s.
Then we’ve actually nudged our afternoon high temp for Tuesday even chillier as computer models are anticipating a lot of us to hardly reach 60 degrees during the “relatively warmest” part of the day.
For my fans of the cold weather, however, I’ve got some bad news. If you came down to Central Florida to escape the cold temps, this would be great news for you!
This abrupt plunge of frigid temperatures for Florida’s standard will be fairly short-duration. If you look at the seven day forecast, we bounce back incredibly quickly into the 70s by Wednesday and towards next weekend.
I would highly encourage you grab some extra zinc, iron, and vitamin C now while you can in preps for this roller coaster ride. This way your immune system is geared up for these wild swings. Usually when the weather hits you with this type of whiplash, it’s an internal struggle to keep up with the changing conditions.
So definitely consider staying active while you can the next several days, keep your hydration high even though it’ll be far from warm or even hot outside, and get those vitamins supplemented to stay healthy while we ride this short burst out.
The mid-sections of the month are expected to be about average around here, if not even above average as we close in on the Thanksgiving holiday and Black Friday extravaganza’s.