After rip-current risk, a calm and warm workweek ahead

As some college students are wrapping up their Spring Break in South Florida, so is the threat of rip currents along east coast beaches.

A slight risk of rip currents Sunday will give way to a calmer week.

David Ross, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Miami-Dade, said Sunday’s lighter winds reduce the risk of rip currents seen Friday and Saturday.

“It’s been a busy week for rip currents,” Ross said Sunday.

On Friday, a middle-aged man was pulled from the ocean off Miami Beach after possibly being swept by a rip current. He later died at Mount Sinai Hospital.

Miami Beach Ocean Rescue reported more than a dozen rescues due to rip currents Friday.

Two teenagers were swept to sea by rip currents on Saturday, one in North Palm Beach and the other in Vero Beach. A 15-year-old is still missing and rescuers on Sunday were searching the waters off of John D. MacArthur Beach Park.

Rip currents are narrow channels of fast-moving water. The National Weather Service advises beachgoers to swim at beaches where lifeguards are on duty.

“It’s hard to see rip currents at eye-level, but lifeguards can see them from up in their stands,” Ross said.

In addition to seeing calmer winds, South Florida has a warm and mostly dry workweek ahead.

A 20 percent chance of showers Sunday afternoon will increase to 30 percent before 8 a.m. Monday.

High temperatures will be in the low 80s all week. Lows at night will be in the upper 60s and lower 70s.

This story was originally published March 15, 2015 at 11:18 AM with the headline "After rip-current risk, a calm and warm workweek ahead."