Orlando, FL weather
Right now 75°, clear · today 84° / 72°, thunderstorm · seven days from the National Weather Service
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Right now · 75° · clear · wind NE 5 mph · 2° cooler than this time yesterday · at Orlando Executive, 5:55 AM
Today, in the Weather Service’s words
A slight chance of rain showers before 11am, then a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms between 11am and noon, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms between noon and 2pm, then showers and thunderstorms likely between 2pm and 5pm, then showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy. High near 84, with temperatures falling to around 77 in the afternoon. Northeast wind around 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible.
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Winter in Orlando
Orlando sees essentially no snow in an average year, according to NOAA’s 1991-2020 climate normals - a essentially snowless place. Measurable snow is close to unheard of. On the rare occasion it falls, everything stops.
That is why local snowfall thresholds differ so much from one town to the next: a district that plans for 0 inches a year is equipped differently from one that never sees any. Here, roughly 0.5 inches in a single storm is where a normal school day comes under threat.
Upper air over Orlando
The nearest radiosonde launch is Cape Canaveral, about 50 miles away. A weather balloon goes up twice a day and measures temperature, humidity and wind all the way through the atmosphere - which is what forecasters actually read to judge whether storms will fire, and how a surface forecast was arrived at.
Sources: National Weather Service forecast and hourly grid for Orlando (api.weather.gov), updated Tue, 5:14 AM UTC. Sunrise and sunset from NOAA’s solar position calculations. Snowfall normals from NOAA’s 1991-2020 US Climate Normals. County lines from the US Census Bureau.