Sunny day flooding: Flood threat remains elevated along Central Florida’s coast during high tide

ORLANDO, Fla. – The combination of King Tides and a stiff breeze off of the Atlantic will create higher-than-normal tides.

Sunshine will increase over the weekend, however, so too will the flood threat along the coast.

Any flooding through the weekend will be the result of tidal forces and a strong breeze and not because of additional rainfall as the weekend is expected to be mainly dry.

A coastal flood warning remains in effect until Sunday morning.

During the high tide cycles over the weekend, saltwater flooding will be likely in areas susceptible to tidal flooding. For perspective, the high tides over the weekend are expected to be .5’-1’ higher than during this past week.

That would put the tide 2-3’ higher than normally dry ground.

High tide is expected again around 11 p.m. Fri