After two days of heavy rain, will Miami and Broward see more? What the forecast says
South Florida is forecast to feel more rain in the coming days after the region got drenched from a slow-moving storm that left streets flooded Sunday and Monday, according to the National Weather Service.
A 40% chance of rain is forecast Tuesday for most of Miami-Dade, 50% for Broward, and 60% to 70% in Palm Beach County, senior weather service meteorologist Robert Garcia said Monday night. On Wednesday, much of South Florida will be under a 20% to 30% chance of rain, he said.
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Three to six inches of rain are estimated to have fallen across Miami-Dade and Broward in the last two days, Garcia said.
At Miami International Airport, 4.6 inches of rain was recorded Sunday — beating the previous record of 1.29 inches set in 1992, the weather service said. Fort Lauderdale Hollywood-International Airport saw 1.67 inches of rain Sunday. A new November record, of 5.56 inches of rain in 24 hours, was also made at the National Weather Service office located on Florida International University’s Modesto Maidique campus in West Miami-Dade.
The heavy rainfall resulted in a sanitary sewer overflow at the Miami-Dade Water and Sewer Department’s Central District Wastewater Treatment Plant, the county said Monday afternoon. County staff was able to recapture most of the 200,000 gallons spill but approximately 10,000 gallons entered Shrimper’s Lagoon, which is adjacent to the plant. As a result, a no-swim advisory is being issued for Virginia Key Beach and Outdoor Center, Crandon Beach, Key Biscayne Beach, and Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park.
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The stormy weather turned the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino’s 450-foot-tall guitar body near Hollywood invisible in traffic camera footage posted on Twitter by Total Traffic Miami.
Zoo Miami in South Miami-Dade also announced it would be closing early at 2 p.m. Monday due to the bad weather and low attendance.
At 12:45 p.m. Sunday, the intersection of Southwest Seventh Street and Third Avenue in Brickell was flooded, a photo tweeted by the weather service in Miami showed. At around 8:30 p.m., Miami police announced it shut down the northbound lanes of Biscayne Boulevard at 10th Street and Biscayne’s southbound lanes at 15th Street due to flooding.
“Remember, turn around, don’t drown,” the weather service said.
This story was originally published November 20, 2022 at 1:40 PM.
