Flash Flood Warning Searches Spike as a Flood Watch Takes Effect in Miami-Dade Sunday Into Monday
The National Weather Service has a Flood Watch in effect for Miami-Dade from 10 a.m. Sunday to 3 p.m. Monday, with heavy rain on the station feed today, thunderstorms at a 90 percent chance Monday, a rip current statement and a coastal flood advisory running at the same time.
Miami-Dade County is under a Flood Watch from 10 a.m. Sunday, November 1, until 3 p.m. Monday, November 2, according to the National Weather Service alerts carried on the Weather.com Miami page and read by this desk overnight. The watch arrives on a day the station's own live feed has turned wetter: the Open-Meteo feed behind miami.twanews.com's weather page showed code 65, heavy rain, for Sunday, with a high near 82, a low near 73 and a 53 percent precipitation chance on the daily line, after an overcast 76 degrees at the overnight check.
Two other alerts run alongside the watch. A Rip Current Statement from NWS Miami, issued Saturday at 4:59 p.m., stays in effect until 7 a.m. Monday, and a Coastal Flood Advisory for coastal Miami-Dade runs until 7 p.m. Sunday, with flooding of lots, parks and roads and isolated road closures possible around high tide, according to the NWS summary read this run. Weather.com's Sunday summary for Miami put the day's rain chance at 60 percent with about 1.18 inches of rain, and its hourly timeline showed thunderstorms building through the early morning hours.
Monday remains the wettest day on the station feed: code 96, thunderstorms, with a 90 percent precipitation chance, a high near 79 and a low near 71. Election Day Tuesday carries thunderstorms as well, at a 74 percent chance on the feed read overnight. Drivers are urged not to drive through water of unknown depth or around barricades, the standard NWS guidance carried in the alert summaries, and early voters heading to Miami-Dade's 28 sites for the final day of early voting, open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday, should expect a wet trip.
Interest in the alerts is spiking nationally as well as locally: 'flash flood warning' was the top trending Google search in the United States on the Cyber Kendra trends snapshot read this run, and 'inundación' ranked fourth on the Trending Soup US list updated early Sunday. The Weather Desk will update the file as the watch window opens Sunday morning.
