How cold will it get during Miami’s first ‘bonafide cold front of the season?’
Feel the chill?
“We’re going to have our first kind of pseudo, bonafide cold front of the season dropping through today,” National Weather Service Meteorologist Ana Torres-Vazquez said Friday morning as residents chipped away frost from the front porch as temperatures dropped under 70 degrees.
Just kidding about the frost. But after a year of constant heat advisories extending into late October, anything in the upper-60s in Miami or Broward feels like a chill.
Or relief.
Expect more of the same under mostly dry skies for the weekend and into the work week, Torres-Vazquez said.
The cold front was over Central Florida Friday morning and should approach South Florida over the afternoon hours.
Between 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. some areas could see “a thin line of very weak, isolated showers,” Torres-Vazquez said.
The rain potential is 20%, with a few sprinkles here and there as the front drops through. But otherwise it should be mostly dry, forecasters say.
A coastal flood advisory for Miami-Dade and Broward has been issued by the weather service, but that’s due to high tides and not flooding rains.
What to expect over the weekend
How cold will it get? Temperatures dipped to 70 Friday morning at the National Weather Service’s Miami office on the main campus of Florida International University in West Miami-Dade. Some areas reported 69 or 68, Torres-Vazquez said.
Those lows could drop a little further over the weekend. Some portions of Miami-Dade may once again only dip to 70, especially the closer you are to the coastline, according to the weather service.
“But portions further inland, maybe into the Homestead area and then further north along Broward County and Palm Beach County, they could see temperatures dropping to 65 to 69 overnight — a cool infusion for November at this point,” Torres-Vazquez said.
The Florida Keys will be a few degrees warmer on both ends through the week, ranging from low-80s highs and mid-70s lows.
Saturday-Sunday comfort: “Once that front pushes through [Saturday] and it’s completely south of our area, it’s mostly going to be northerly air bringing more of that cool air,” Torres-Vazquez said Friday. “So tomorrow, the highs are going to struggle to peak past 80 across much of the region. Very comfortable weekend for all with few, if any, chances of rain.”
That “fairly positive weather” should continue into the start of the workweek.
“We don’t really anticipate much in the way of the usual weather that comes before a cold front, where it’s just kind of overcast and rainy the whole day through with lower temperatures,” Torres-Vazquez said.
Instead, expect “cooler temperatures, nice conditions, a great weekend, in terms of rain and temperature.”
What’s coming rain-wise: There’s some uncertainty due to Sara. According to the National Hurricane Center, Tropical Storm Sara is now expected to dissolve before reaching the Gulf of Mexico, reducing the potential future threat to Florida.
KNOW MORE: Tropical Storm Sara is no longer expected to reach the Gulf of Mexico next week
Even so, after the blanket of dry air settles over South Florida and the Keys through Wednesday, a potential for moisture to return to the region from Sara’s remnants is possible.
“The models do seem to think that regardless of whatever happens in terms of tropical development or storm development some of that moisture could push into our area and lead to chances of rain increasing. So that’s why you see those chances of 30% Wednesday into Thursday.
Coastal flood advisory
“Friday’s full moon will peak the king tides. Minor flooding will continue around the high tides for the rest of the weekend, but the highest tides are expected Friday,” CBS News Miami meteorologist Dave Warren said in Friday morning’s broadcast.
The weather service’s coastal flood advisory for Miami-Dade and Broward is through 1 p.m. Sunday. The service also warns of elevated rip current risk at the beaches from 7 p.m. Friday to Sunday evening.
▪ Port Everglades high tide times: 7:30 p.m. Friday, 8:14 a.m. and 8:21 p.m. Saturday and 9:04 a.m. Sunday.
▪ Virginia Key high tide times: 8:14 p.m. Friday, 8:57 a.m. and 9:04 p.m. Saturday and 9:46 a.m. Sunday.
A coastal flood advisory over concerns of saltwater flooding for the Florida Keys is through 5 p.m. Friday.
This story was originally published November 15, 2024 at 11:12 AM.
