Miami’s weekend weather forecast and could a tropical depression drench Election Day?
After days of unseasonably hot weather, South Florida woke Friday to “more comfortable air” with lows in the 70s, maybe even the upper-60s far inland, and “highs not quite as high” around 86 or 87 degrees later in the day Friday and Saturday, CBS Miami meteorologist Lissette Gonzalez had said.
Friday did bring some light rain from Miami-Dade through Broward as well as waterspouts south of the westernmost Lower Keys in the evening.
The forecast was 30% for Saturday.
When you turn your clocks back on a breezy Saturday night before bedtime, you’ll wake Sunday morning to similar conditions and rain chances at 50% during the day.
More rain is in the forecast midweek, with Election Day on Tuesday rising to a 60% rain chance, according to the National Weather Service.
On Saturday, the National Hurricane Center had issued advisories on what could turn into a subtropical or tropical depression near Florida’s east coast during the early to middle portion of the work week. That system, if it develops, could bring squally weather and hazardous marine conditions Tuesday through Thursday.
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Sunday, the last day for early voting at precincts around South Florida, should be mostly sunny and breezy, with gusts to 20 mph, and 84 degrees for a high, according to the weather service.
Tuesday will also be breezy with gusts up to 29 mph, according to the National Weather Service in Miami.
According to WPLG meteorologist Michael Lowry, that “big sloppy weather system” from the tropics could “pinwheel toward Florida’s peninsula” next week.
“We’ll have some time to sort through the details in the days ahead, but right now we’re looking at a gloomy, windy, and possibly wet period beginning around Election Day regardless of development,” Lowry wrote on his Eye on the Tropics blog on Friday.
The service also warns of a high risk for rip currents at Atlantic coast beaches in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties. These surf conditions at coastal beaches will continue through the weekend.
This story was originally published November 3, 2022 at 2:00 PM.
