ORLANDO, Fla. – As of Wednesday morning, the Storm Prediction Center has the northern portions of the Florida peninsula back beneath their classic severe weather designation.
Looking at the chart below, valid for day five, our northern counties could experience a strong storm or two as we get into April 1.
I promise this isn’t an April fools. The pattern makes sense, with a return of moisture and very hot temperatures across our area the next several days. Rain has been scarce, so the atmosphere is more or less primed to develop some thunderstorms, especially as our sea breeze begins to finally unveil itself.
If you experienced some heavier rainfall and thunder Tuesday in southern Osceola or Brevard counties, that was the sea breeze firing in classic fashion.
We’ll also see multiple larger storm systems getting going over the Great Plains and start moving eastward towards the Atlantic coast. The tail end of the cold fronts attached to these areas of low pressure could help give our local weather a little nudge in the active direction.
These warmer temps and increased humidity are the proper ingredients for rainfall; we’ve just been missing the “trigger.”
Where we stand currently this could be a bit of a multi-day event. A few of these days would be far more BENEFICIAL than detrimental, however. Central Florida is practically BEGGING for rainfall, as drought conditions and wildfire potential grow.
Saturday could have some evening showers in store for us before Sunday and Monday become our most aggravated days with the threat for stronger storms as pinpointed by Storm Prediction Center.
Stick with your Pinpoint Weather team as we monitor models and live conditions closely into the weekend. All-in-all, it’s nearly guaranteed we could receive some beneficial rain. Now, the work begins toward narrowing down which of the cells carrying our rain could try to become something more.
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