Orlando AM Weather Forecast: Coldiest air of the season on the way

And at least over in that area, the floodwaters are starting to go down, Brooks. It's still working its way through St. John's. It is. In the neighborhoods affected, the floodwaters have receded. But as you mentioned, it all goes into the river basin. So now we're watching the river basin rising. And there's actually a major flood stage at Lake Poinsett where the St. John's goes through Brevard County west of Cocoa. It's having an impact on roads and accessibility to homes, but not yet flooding homes. And it's not really expected to. We're not going to see a situation where we have drywall being removed from the St. John's flooding. But we're going to see rivers swelling and we're going to see a lot of A lot of the adjacent roads covered where four or five inches of standing water is possible over, like, for instance, Providence Road, which is one of the big roads that takes you to Lake Poinsett from the east is inundated right now. So let's get right to it. Here's a look at it. It's expected to crest over the next several weeks, cresting pretty soon here at about 17.2 feet, which means that with a flood stage of 16 feet, there could be like six inches of standing water on that road. And so it's... It's cutting off a number of homes there that are located right here at the base of Lake Point, well west of Cocoa. This is nowhere near downtown Cocoa, but it could affect at least water going to the yards of the Silver Pine subdivision on the west side. And in theory, there are a couple of older homes that are right on the river, right on the lake, that may see some water come into the first floor. But a lot of those homes are elevated because of the not unheard of river level rises here along the St. John's Basin whenever there's a tropical system coming through or a major rain event. Elsewhere, we're looking at the river gauges in Astor, Deland, Sanford, and Lake Harney. And so far, Deland and Sanford are at minor flood stage. Astor is at minor, may raise to moderate flood stage. Harney right now. Over in Geneva, it's a moderate flood stage, and at this level, it's inundating with a couple of inches of standing water, some of the roads there adjacent to Lake Harney. So, let's take a look outside. Here's a view in Melbourne from the Grills Riverside Cam, where skies are variably cloudy. It's 68 degrees. Big weather stories this. We've got a cold front that will be moving through, and in doing so, changing everything. We're going to have the coldest weather we've seen here in Central Florida since middle of March. Got to go back to St. Patrick's Day. 60 right now in the villages, so the cold weather moves in tonight. You'll start to notice it tomorrow and then especially this weekend in the mornings. It'll be chilly. All right, it is November the 12th. Your out-the-door forecast on this Thursday will go from 64 at 6 to 66 at 8, 72 at 10. Today is going to be one of those. Really pleasant days, despite the fact that we're going to have a lot of clouds streaming through, thanks to a very busy subtropical jet stream. There's a lot of high and mid-level clouds that will be streaming in from the Gulf. But that said, we had a front move through overnight. That was the one that produced a couple of showers down there in Brevard County. Drier air behind it, no more rain in the forecast for us. The second front coming in here from the southeast is the one that's going to bring the really cold air. So future radar features, a chance for some storms across southeast Florida, like around Hobe Sound, Jupiter, Lake Okeechobee, associated with that. First front, the dry front, and then the actual cold front comes through tonight, and that will start to scour away a lot of the clouds as well. So forecast highs tomorrow, 71 Orlando, 70 in Leesburg, 69 Ocala. That will be a change for our Friday. And then by Saturday morning, look at these morning lows, 47 Orlando, 42 in Ocala. And it's going to be a little breezy. It may actually feel like it's in the upper 30s. Point being here, I mean, you know, this isn't freezing or anything like that, but you're going to notice it. If you have any outdoor plans Saturday morning, we do. We've got a baseball game. We're going to be bundled up watching that game. Colder weather rolling in this weekend, but then this sets the stage for an active weather setup for next week with a series of systems coming in and out of the Gulf. And that could bring some heavy rain to portions of our viewing area, maybe to the Atlantic coast. We'll watch that for the middle of next week as the wind picks up as well. So after this chilly weekend with some... Proper fall weather, if you will. We're going to start to see things rebounding to the mid-70s. All right, it's time for Snap the Sun this morning. Let's take a look outside at this really striking image from Aaron Lee and Coco of the morning light illuminating that base of clouds with a pink hue. We'd love to share your photos. Scan the QR code. We'll feature them here on Good Day Orlando.