Orlando AM Weather Forecast: Warm start to the week

You know, when you look at what's happening there, and they're feeling no reprieve at all, and that it could get worse before it gets better. Yeah, it's really slowly working northward. I mean, the St. Johns, especially when you have cold fronts come through, can kind of stop where the flow stops. It's going so slowly anyway, and if you have any kind of a north wind, which we've had, and we'll have later this week, that slows the flow even more. So the water has to slowly make its way from Brevard County all the way to Jacksonville. It could take several weeks. We were over there this week in New Smyrna Beach. Even the intracostal is still super high, so there's water everywhere. Yeah, high astronomical. Yeah, right. And that slows it down even further because, you know, this is a tidal river once it gets up to Jacksonville and it needs to dump out. And when the tides are high, it slows it down. So flood warnings in effect until further notice all the way up from Coco to, well, the Lake George. And this is going to be an anticipation of higher than normal waters continuing for at least the next couple of weeks. Let's go look at the river levels right now. This is not Hurricane Ian. Where we had this extreme flooding for literally months on end. But it is significant in a lot of neighborhoods. In Astor, it's a moderate flood with medium impacts. In Deland and Sanford, it's minor flooding with low impacts. And at Lake Harney, it's a moderate flood expected to become a major flood this weekend with medium impacts. In some of the river homes that are right along the river, there could be some water incursions or at least coming up into the yards and a lot of the access roads to some of these communities like Hontoon Island, as well as Stone Island over on the DeBerry side and in the Enterprise area. Anyway, here we go. Looking outside. Fog is the other big weather story. We've got some patchy fog developing. Here's a live view from Lake Mary. And as we head toward daybreak, around, say, 6.30 to 7 o'clock, the fog should become most dense where it forms, most likely to form in the wetland areas, near ponds and lakes and rivers, especially where we've had the higher moisture from recent rains. Fog will burn off, giving way to mostly clear skies later on this morning. Beautiful day today on the way, by the way. Gorgeous and warm first half of the week. The big weather story is a huge cold front comes through late this week. That knocks us down to the 40s for lows at night, highs only in the 60s once we get into this weekend. It is going to be a cold weekend by Florida standards. 55 in Ocala right now, 64 in Orlando, 64 in Smyrna. Getting out the door, we'll have that patchy fog through 6 to 7 o'clock and then sunshine and 74 by 10. And as far as the forecast goes with sky conditions, yes, we'll have some fog in the morning, but it looks like as we head into midday, just some high wispy cirrus clouds. Otherwise, a picture-perfect November day with that 74 degrees by mid-morning. It's all thanks to the high pressure in control of our area. The high winds will be serious clouds thanks to some very distant thunderstorms over Texas. And we may see some of those highest clouds streaming through on the subtropical jet stream. Jet stream, which will help to bring this cold front southward. And in doing so, bring in the coldest weather we've seen in about 200 days. But who's counting? You've got to go way back to mid-March, St. Patrick's Day, to find anything like this. And here we are. We're looking at Lowe's. On Saturday morning, this is way, way ahead, 47 Orlando, 42 Ocala, 45 to land, and I would not be surprised if we had some patchy frost in some of the colder spots like in Dunellin and also up toward the I-10 corridor with 30s for lows there. All right, today it's going to be quite the opposite, 83 Orlando, 82 the villages. Our normal high this time of year is 80, so we'll be above normal for the next three days. There's a 40% chance for some showers and even a thunderstorm threat on Wednesday, Veterans Day, before we see rain chances heading out and then the sunshine and the chilly air heading in. Look at this. High temperature of only 66 on Saturday with morning lows in the 40s. That cool air will moderate back to more normal weather by next week. But for now, the big weather story is the big pattern change coming our way for the weekend. All right, well, it's time for Snap the Sun this morning. Let's take a look at this shot. This is from... Tammy in Ocala, the sun coming up with a distant thunderstorm on the horizon. That's pretty cool. We'd love to share your photos. Scan that QR code, upload them there. We'll feature them right here on Good Day Orlando.