Miami Halloween Night Weather: 78 Degrees, Rip Currents and a Coastal Flood Advisory Into Sunday
Miami's Halloween night runs near 78 degrees under a Rip Current Statement that lasts until Monday morning and a Coastal Flood Advisory through Sunday evening, with drizzle Sunday and thunderstorms in Monday's forecast.
The water is the weather story in Miami tonight. The National Weather Service in Miami has a Rip Current Statement in effect until 7 a.m. Monday and a Coastal Flood Advisory in effect until 7 p.m. Sunday for the coast — the two alerts frame a Halloween night that reads 77.6 degrees on the station's live feed, feeling like 84, after a Saturday high of 83.1.
Rip currents are the hazard that outlasts the holiday: the statement runs through the rest of the weekend and into Monday morning, covering Sunday's final early voting day, the Fort Lauderdale Boat Show's closing day and the Dolphins' and Inter Miami's Sunday games. Anyone headed for a beach on Sunday should treat the surf as dangerous even where the sky looks calm. The Coastal Flood Advisory, which runs through Sunday evening, covers the high-tide cycles that can push water onto low-lying coastal streets.
The rain pattern firms up from here. The station feed puts Sunday at drizzle (code 53) with a high of 82.1, a low of 73.5 and a 59 percent precipitation chance, and Monday turns to thunderstorms (code 95) with a high of 80.9 and a 66 percent chance — the wettest reading of the week. Tuesday eases back to drizzle and a 45 percent chance.
One clock note for tonight: daylight saving time ends at 2 a.m., clocks fall back an hour, and Sunday runs on standard time — which is why the alerts' end times are posted in EST. Set the clocks back before bed, and give the seawalls and the surf a wide berth until the alerts expire.
