ORLANDO, Fla. – Florida experienced a warm day today, with temperatures reaching the upper 80s in many areas. As we look ahead to Sunday, expect similar heat but with a chance of storms.

The Storm Prediction Center has issued a level one, marginal risk alert for severe thunderstorms across the entire region. The primary concerns are strong straight-line winds, with a lesser chance of small hail.

Showers are expected to develop on Florida’s western coast early in the morning, continuing until around noon. At that point, atmospheric conditions will become more conducive to storm formation.

The early part of the day may see isolated heavy downpours, gusty winds, and lightning. However, the more significant weather activity is anticipated to begin later in the afternoon, around 4 to 5 p.m.

Forecasters are tracking a weak atmospheric disturbance expected to move across the peninsula during the midday hours. This will likely increase the number of areas experiencing rain and storms throughout the day.

As a result, some regions may continue to see rain into the late evening, extending into the start of the new week.

The actual cold front isn’t set to come through us until very early Monday morning, sometime between midnight and 2 a.m.

As it does so, winds will quickly shift towards a northerly direction funneling in the dense layer of cold, dry air we’ve been awaiting and discussing the last few days leading up to this event.

Traditionally we see a little bit of a lag with such a shallow and thick mass of chilly air, so the coldest temperatures won’t settle in with us until we wake up Tuesday morning. But, your afternoon highs on Monday will have to fight to try and reach the 70s.

Then we’ve actually nudged our afternoon high temp for Tuesday even chillier as computer models are anticipating a lot of us to hardly reach 60 degrees during the “relatively warmest” part of the day.

For my fans of the cold weather, however, I’ve got some bad news. If you came down to Central Florida to escape the cold temps, this would be great news for you!

This abrupt plunge of frigid temperatures for Florida’s standard will be fairly short-duration. If you look at the seven day forecast, we bounce back incredibly quickly into the 70s by Wednesday and towards next weekend.

I would highly encourage you grab some extra zinc, iron, and vitamin C now while you can in preps for this roller coaster ride. This way your immune system is geared up for these wild swings. Usually when the weather hits you with this type of whiplash, it’s an internal struggle to keep up with the changing conditions.

So definitely consider staying active while you can the next several days, keep your hydration high even though it’ll be far from warm or even hot outside, and get those vitamins supplemented to stay healthy while we ride this short burst out.

The mid-sections of the month are expected to be about average around here, if not even above average as we close in on the Thanksgiving holiday and Black Friday extravaganza’s.