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Rain will taper off this week, forecasters say

 

dmoskovitz@MiamiHerald.com

After a super-soggy weekend, South Florida can look forward to seeing a bit of sunshine again.

We won’t be completely without rain — this is South Florida, after all. Expect afternoon showers all this week, according to the meteorologists at the National Weather Service in Miami-Dade County, but nothing like our waterlogged weekend.

The worst came on Saturday. The Sweetwater area in West Miami-Dade got nearly 6.25 inches of rain, meteorologist Andrew Kennedy said.

Miami got 3.7 inches. Most of the rest of Miami-Dade and Broward counties got between 1 and 1.5 inches.

Sunday dumped more rain, although less than the day before.

By Sunday evening, Miami and Fort Lauderdale each had recorded less than half an inch, and a flood watch was canceled.

By Monday afternoon, a cold front was expected to have moved into the region, pushing out the stormy weather — although it won’t cool things off noticeably, and the rain probably won’t go away completely. Even with drier air, we still have a 30 percent chance of rain.

“It should be more-typical afternoon thunderstorms,” Kennedy said.

The high temperature for the next couple days should be about 88, with lows around a not-so-low 78.

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