ORLANDO, Fla. — Central Florida will be warm and sunny on Friday before more changes arrive this weekend. Our area will have a mild start Friday morning and warm up in the afternoon. Highs will reach the low 80s Friday afternoon with mostly sunny skies and dry conditions.

Visitors to the Orange County Park can see a replica of Fort Christmas, which was built on Christmas Day in 1837 amid the Second Seminole War.

Skies will be sunny with afternoon highs across Central Florida ranging from 73-78 degrees, peaking at 80 in Okeechobee. There is a moderate risk of rip currents at all area beaches. Subscribers are entitled to 10 gift sharing articles each month. These can be shared with friends and family who are not subscribers.

High pressure is sitting off the mid-Atlantic coast, bringing light southeast winds across east Central Florida today and making it the warmest day of the year on Friday.

High pressure sticks around for another day, allowing temperatures to climb quickly under mostly clear skies into the mid to upper 70s.

Voters in four Central Florida counties have chosen the Republican and Democratic candidates who will compete in a special election to fill the U.S. House District 6 seat previously held by Mike Waltz.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Central Florida will continue to see sunny skies and warmer days. Our area will have plenty of sunshine on Thursday once the morning fog burns away. Along with the heavy dose of sunshine will be easterly and southeasterly winds bringing more warm air into the region. Highs will climb into the upper 70s Thursday afternoon.

Frigid temperatures engulfed the South on Monday ahead of a winter storm that’s expected to spread heavy snow and disruptive ice around a region from Texas to north Florida that rarely sees such weather,

His mother, Amberlie Reinertsen, says Mason has had lung complications since birth but has never been this sick before. Doctors report that Central Florida hospitals are seeing a spike in RSV cases, which can be life-threatening for infants, seniors, and those with underlying health conditions.

The parents of a local TV journalist who was fatally shot while reporting on a killing in central Florida have filed a negligence lawsuit against their son’s former employer.

After a rainy weekend, cold temperatures are sweeping across Central Florida — with the frigid air here to stay. Overnight, temperatures dropped into the 30s and 40s, setting us up for a chilly Monday morning. Freeze warnings were in effect for multiple counties as wind chills dropped as low as in the 20s. Those warnings expired at 10 a.m.

Central Florida high school boys’ basketball teams are looking in peak form as the regular season comes to a close. We looked at schools in seven area counties (Orange, Osceola, Lake, Seminole, Volusia,