Orlando Weather Forecast: Friday Storms, Big Weekend Winds

Waves this weekend. It's going to be a wild one. Meteorologist Noah Bergeron is here. Yeah, there will be waves, all right. You were saying up to 10 feet high along the beaches? Probably 12 feet. Wow. Highest we've had all year, easily. That's surfing waves right there. And also very dangerous. We've had a lot of rip currents, sadly, impact. Had a few fatalities this year in the summer, so it's been a busier-than-normal year for rip current impacts to our beaches and swimmers. And I want to stress this weekend is the easily most dangerous beach conditions of the entire year we've seen. So if you're planning to go to the beach this weekend, know that the water is not going to be super safe for swimming Saturday afternoon, especially Sunday. Very, very rough, angry ocean out there on Sunday. All right, so tomorrow we're near record heat. the record for Orlando tomorrow sits at 95 degrees set back in 1925 I'm thinking about 9192 for a high tomorrow which is well above normal for the middle of October highs 90 in the villages tomorrow 90 in Ocala 89 in Gainesville 88 Melbourne 88 in Titusville 86 in Daytona Beach but when you factor in the humidity tomorrow it's going to really feel hot in fact it might even be close to 100 the heat index tomorrow probably the hottest day of October this year is going to be tomorrow 97 the peak heat index this is in the afternoon in Titusville 98 in Melbourne 94 Coco Beach and 98 in Kissimmee so a hot day to the theme parks for sure out there tomorrow all right so what to know tonight there will be storms around Orlando best chance three to eight scattered about could impact some high school football games in terms of lightning but as we head into the weekend it's the big drop in temperatures really our first true fall front yeah we had only a week and a half ago but it really was just the humidity that dropped this one's the temperatures go down and the humidity goes down a lot of us are going to stay in the 70s for highs by Sunday so tomorrow we're ahead of the front by the way you're you're inside baseball your weather 101 for the night why does it get so hot the day before a cold front well if you've watched the local weather report on TV all these years it would be any weather person shows you these fronts right the blue triangle cold front well the day ahead of that it gets really hot hotter than the rest of the week why is that well the air is compressing ahead of a cold front in your analogy for me to explain to you is like a bike pump or air pump if you put air in your car tire you take it off it's hot because when you press the air it heats up Right ahead of a cold front, the air is getting compressed on Earth, and that's why it heats up. So that's often why, when you look in the weather forecast, the day before a cold front comes through is generally the hottest of the week. So that's the case for tomorrow. And then the front comes through Saturday, temperatures go down, and the wind really starts to increase. Here's the winds, though, by Sunday from the east-northeast, 35 to 45 miles an hour. That's just the ambient wind. The winds will pick up Saturday, but they really get cooking out there for Sunday, and it's going to be a very windy week next week. All right, so watch for the sporadic and scattered evening storms tomorrow. We'll track them for you here. Still kind of cloudy Saturday, a few lingering showers, but it's very far from a washout Saturday, just scattered showers. Dryer and brighter on Sunday, but much cooler. You'll probably be reaching for a long-sleeve or a sweatshirt. We will call that a Florida cool-down heading into Sunday. All right, Noah, we'll call it a sports alert.