ORLANDO, Fla. – Lingering moisture in our atmosphere will allow for our sea breeze to develop another round of robust thunderstorms Monday afternoon before we begin trending drier and hotter for the second half of the week.
Our Monday morning commute will be dry with a mix of sun and clouds to start our week. This will allow our high temperatures to once again climb into the low-mid 90s with heat indices over 100ºF. The west coast sea breeze will once again be our dominant rain maker for Monday afternoon.
Expect storms to begin popping up near I-75 around 11am-12pm. Storm chances shift towards I-4 and points eastward after 1pm. Storms will linger east of I-4 near the I-95 corridor mid-afternoon towards the evening commute. Storms will fade away around sunset.
Our weather pattern begins to shift pushing into mid-week thanks to two players entering the field: an upper level ridge of high pressure and Saharan Dust. These two features will build into Central Florida by Wednesday and linger through the rest of the week. This will lower rain chances and crank up our temperatures.
We will be in the mid-upper 90s by week’s end with heat indices up to 108ºF in some of our neighborhoods.