Brace yourselves, Orlando residents – you're in for a chilly surprise later this week. According to the National Weather Service Melbourne FL, after a nominally warmer day with some isolated showers mainly around Cape Canaveral southward, a strong cold front will sweep in Wednesday night into Thursday morning. This front is coming with rain, but more memorable will be the plunge in temperatures with a seriously cool change set to follow.
With today's highs just managing into the low/mid 70s, the real story begins Wednesday night as the front ushers in rain and a noticeable drop in the mercury. Overnight lows will hit the mid-50s north of Orlando, stretching down to the low/mid-60s in the metro and Treasure Coast regions. And here's the kicker - 'below normal temperatures' are set to start Thursday and stick around, according to a forecast discussion issued at 3:20 AM EST Tuesday by the National Weather Service. Those temps will fall so far that sub-freezing morning lows and frigid wind chills in the 20s to 30s are forecasted, especially chilling for Friday morning and next Monday morning.
Conditions will be brisk on the water, too. Boaters should prepare for poor to hazardous boating conditions, as northwesterly winds, gusting 20-25 mph at times, especially offshore, will kick up seas to as high as 6-9 ft by Thursday night. But if you're bound to the land and looking to the sky, things are relatively calm aviation-wise with only some minor MVFR CIGs affecting southern regions this morning, as detailed in the National Weather Service.
And if that's not enough, after a small respite this weekend, another cold front is predicted to reinforce those below normal temperatures late Saturday night into Sunday. Rain chances seem scarce, but another round of 30s to mid-40s overnight lows is on the cards, with the possibility of sub-freezing temperatures creeping in again early next week. The front also promises another blow of wind chill factors, with feels-like temperatures potentially topping into the mid-20s to low 30s Monday morning.
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