ORLANDO, Fla. – Our Saturday was certainly sweltering with highs hitting the mid 90s across the area with heat indices topping 100ºF. Mostly dry conditions were enjoyed with just spotty storms developing. A few more storms are expected to develop into the early evening and linger until around 10pm. We will remain partly cloudy and dry after that for the rest of the evening.
Sunday will feature a similar scenario, with the exception of more scattered storms into the afternoon. Our Sunday morning will be dry with a mix of sun and clouds. That, mixed with a light WSW wind, will allow temperatures to once again climb into the mid 90s with “feels like” temperatures once again in the 100ºF-105ºF range.
Our storms will begin to spark up around the 2pm hour. With a stronger westerly steering flow, these storms will push back towards the east coast for the second half of the afternoon and into the early evening.
Temperatures continue to crank up moving into the upcoming work week as a ridge of high pressure in the mid-upper levels of the atmosphere begins to build over Florida. This will provide sinking, warming air across Central Florida. This will do two things: lower rain chances and increase temperatures.
Mid to even upper 90s are possible by week’s end and into next weekend with heat indices well over 100ºF.