Next week should be warmer and drier, although the risk of at least “scattered, mostly afternoon and evening showers and storms” will need to stay in the forecast. They typically only reach a few hundred feet from the cloud base.
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The National Weather Service said it couldn’t rule out hail and isolated tornadoes.
Storms this afternoon are well below severe limits, but the stronger ones are producing torrential rain and a good bit of lightning.
Following a hot and uncomfortable weekend, Monday will be another day of heat and humidity, making it the third day of high temperatures at 90 degrees or higher, NWS officials say.
Highs in the 80s and high humidity will be with us until a strong cold front moves through on Wednesday, forecasters said this morning.
Again, rain is possible across much of the state.
Most of Central Florida will start to cool down later this afternoon with about a 60 percent chance of rain and thunderstorms, the weather service said.
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Wednesday night, there is a 40 percent chance of thunderstorms.
