ORLANDO, Fla. – It was a freezing start for many Tuesday morning across Central Florida.
Cold weather advisories and freeze warnings are in effect until 9 a.m. and hopefully we put them permanently in the rear view mirror.
Winds are calming as high pressure settles in overhead. In fact, by the afternoon we’ll be close to light and variable, which will help the air feel much better than it has the last 24 hours.
One problem with the tapering winds, however, is a frost potential we have for Wednesday morning.
A frost advisory has already been issued as the potential for frost really grows. Cold temps and light winds are the perfect combo.
Fire risks are dropping but only slightly. Things are still dry, barren and, unfortunately, dead. If we do see some frost build Wednesday morning, this will only be salt in the wound given the landscape struggles we’re already facing.
For your afternoon, temps will climb enough to reach or exceed 60 degrees in most parts of Central Florida. Skies will remain clear because we’re utterly dry no matter what level of our atmosphere you look at.
As high pressure settles in, we’re faced with a cold morning again Wednesday. Afternoon highs will actually lift even greater than what we’re looking at Tuesday. We’ll be much closer to average, with highs around 73-75 mid-afternoon.
I don’t know about you, but that sounds absolutely amazing! Then we’ve got a pretty high potential we’ll be staying there, if not even HOTTER as the first days of March roll in.
I do believe this could be the official welcoming of the spring season for us Floridians, and many across the Southeast. Once this trough digging southward driving temperatures low kicks out east over Atlantic waters, we’ll see the jet stream flatten out.
As it does so, we’ll allow some of that much-needed warmth to bleed east into our neighborhood. This is also going to bring in some additional moisture and energy that’s been trapped out west over the Rockies.
That’s why, rain is BACK in the forecast! Not for a single day or a single event either. We may have the chance to pick up some rain Friday through to the first half of Sunday.
A cold front is coming down, and finally it’s got some solid moisture and instability with it. Computer models are thinking as our pattern flattens out and things get to stretching west to east, it could stall out over us. If it does, that absolutely cranks the chance we pick up an extra inch or two of rain through the peninsula of Florida.
While it may not do a ton to bring down drought conditions, any bit of help is WELCOMED help. We’ll continue to dial in that forecast as well as how much rain you could see if this weekend wet weather pattern comes together.