Orlando weather: Storm chances across Central Florida pick up as week progresses
Orlando Weather Forecast: Aug. 19, 2024
Most areas will stay dry, with only limited chances for showers and storms overnight on Monday. A few isolated showers may develop along the beaches in the early evening, but activity will be minimal. On Tuesday, temperatures will again reach the mid-90s, and there will be slightly more storms than on Monday, but coverage will remain limited.
ORLANDO, Fla. - Most areas will stay dry, with only limited chances for showers and storms overnight on Monday. A few isolated showers may develop along the beaches in the early evening, but activity will be minimal.
On Tuesday, temperatures will again reach the mid-90s, and there will be slightly more storms than on Monday, but coverage will remain limited.
The week ahead
From Wednesday through the end of the week, expect a significant increase in afternoon showers and storms, with rain chances around 70% from Wednesday to Friday.
Storms are expected to move east between 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. each day, with the highest likelihood of storms occurring east of the I-4 corridor. By the weekend, temperatures will cool to the upper 80s, and rain chances will return to a more typical 60% coverage.
Tracking the Tropics
Over the weekend, Ernesto impacted Bermuda with a peak wind gust of 109 mph on Ireland Island and 7 inches of rain at St. George's. Fortunately, widespread destruction was avoided, partly thanks to Bermuda's stringent building codes.
Currently, an unusual lull in tropical activity is expected to last for about a week to a week and a half. Despite record-warm ocean temperatures, no systems are anticipated to develop due to abundant Saharan dust and tropical waves emerging too far north off Africa's coast.
However, as Labor Day weekend approaches, conditions may become more favorable for development in the deep tropics.
Despite this brief pause, the season is still expected to be extremely busy. The next named storms are Francine and Gordon.
Hurricane season 2024 Atlantic Basin tropical cyclone names. (FOX Weather)
In the skies
Tonight is the Full Blue Super Moon!
It's called "blue" when it's the third of the four full moons in one season when, typically, there are only three full moons per season. The moon won't look "blue," but it will be bigger than other full moons in a year thanks to its position closest to the Earth in its annual orbital plane, making it look up to 15% brighter and 8% larger than usual.
It's called a "super" moon because the moon is closest to its orbit, known as the perigee.
The next Super Blue Moon is Jan 31, 2037 – a dozen years from now.