ORLANDO, Fla. – Dry air and high pressure continue to dominate the forecast across Central Florida.
It will be mostly sunny, but rain chances increase a bit on Wednesday, with a 40% chance of rain after 2 p.m.
Expect rain chances at 20% to 30% through the weekend.
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High temperatures will be in the mid-90s.
Active systems
The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on Tropical Storm Franklin, located over the east-central Caribbean Sea. The Weather Prediction Center is issuing advisories on Tropical Depression Harold, located inland over northern Mexico.
Eastern Tropical Atlantic
Disorganized showers and thunderstorms continue in association with a tropical wave located several hundred miles west of the Cabo Verde Islands.
Environmental conditions are forecast to become more conducive for some development late this week, and a tropical depression could form over the weekend while the system moves west-northwest to northwest across the central tropical Atlantic.
Formation chance through 48 hours is 10%. Formation chance through seven days is 40%.
Central Tropical Atlantic
An area of low pressure centered several hundred miles east-northeast of the Leeward Islands (the remnants of former Tropical Storm Emily) is producing a large area of disorganized thunderstorms.
Upper-level winds are forecast to become more conducive for development in a day or so, and this system could regenerate into a tropical depression or tropical storm late this week or this weekend when the system moves northward over the subtropical central Atlantic.
Formation chance through 48 hours is 40%. Formation chance through seven days is 60%.