Central Florida Faces Unpredictable Weather: Dense Fog and Temperature Fluctuations on the Horizon

ORLANDO, Fla. – After sweeping across the state last evening and into the early hours, the front has now shifted to the Atlantic, leaving high pressure in its wake.

Residual moisture combined with the sinking effect from the high-pressure system’s rotation brought dense fog patches to our area on Sunday morning. This weather phenomenon is expected to persist in our interior counties through tomorrow. It’s highly likely that this foggy pattern will continue into Tuesday as people resume their routines and children return to school in most districts.

Fortunately, no major weather disturbances are anticipated in the near future for the upcoming week. The main weather stories will be the persistent fog and rising afternoon temperatures over the next five days.

However, as we advance further into January, expect some changes and developments in the weather landscape.

Starting as early as tomorrow afternoon, subtropical ridging will influence our local weather, causing daytime temperatures to rise at least 3-5 degrees above the typical seasonal average.

We’ll follow that stride throughout the workweek, and then weekend brings some change. This change could be rather abrupt and even dramatic if current trends continue.

A strong winter storm is slated to develop during the latter half of the week, sometime late Thursday into Friday. The storm in of itself won’t have any influence on us, however it will begin the familiar tugging on cold air from up north across the heart of the lower forty-eight.

By late Saturday and the first half of Sunday, our next cold front will be dropping by for a visit.

Rain chances are still a bit up in the air, but with warmer temps situated out ahead of the front and quality moisture being pulled in along its leading edge suggest a few of us could get some more much-needed rain.

The temperatures are the primary detail we’re monitoring. With as fast as we raced towards above average territory we could plummet right back to below average temperatures, and perhaps stay there for a little while with some fluctuating going on beyond that.

But let’s not get ahead of ourselves! We have a couple days of morning fog and warmer temps to get through before we can start really discussing another big-time Orlando cooldown.