ORLANDO, Fla. – A very rainy start to your new week is coming.
Rain chances start to climb through the night tonight and settle in as the sun comes up tomorrow morning.
An area of low pressure continues to stew in the Gulf to our west, at the tail end of a frontal system draped across the eastern U.S.
This is special, and I’ll tell you why.
So alongside heavy rainfall throughout the day Monday, our winds will pick up with this pocket of low pressure as well during its time spent over our viewing area. What makes this unique are the water temperatures of the Gulf of Mexico.
If you didn’t catch our 6:30 p.m. show today, the saving grace currently is strictly the time of year. The jet is down across the gulf coast states, the dry air is moving about the pattern, and wind shear is a big issue.
Had we been talking about these same characteristics in the summer – we’d likely have a familiar yellow blip on the National Hurricane Center home page.
Tropical probabilities are indeed lighting up with this system as it traverses the western Atlantic moving northeast up the U.S. coast after it progresses across the Florida peninsula. That’s because over the Gulf, its given a chance to stir up some tropical-style thunderstorms. Again, if it weren’t for the time of year alone, we’d maybe be discussing something a bit more than a rain-maker.
But regardless, we’re safe and sound for now, not going to hit you with my infamous catch phrase quite yet. Rain will start sneaking into our picture by around 2-3 a.m. tomorrow, and be directly overhead between the 7 a.m. hour and lunch time.
Later into the afternoon, early evening time, we’ll start to see a lot of the rain push east and hug the coastline especially for you up in Volusia or in Brevard county.
Some trailing showers and rain will persist for your Tuesday before we start to warm back into the 80s by Wednesday and especially Thursday.
Stick with your pinpoint weather team as we dial in who will get the most rain and when we’ll finally see the sun return.
