Miami Sunday Mid-Morning Weather: 79.9 Degrees and Overcast as the Flood Watch Opens, With Monday at 62 Percent
The morning the forecast promised is here: near 80, grey and damp in Miami, the Flood Watch window now open, and the wet pattern holding through Tuesday's thunderstorms before the week dries out and warms back up.
Miami's Sunday has settled into the pattern the alerts described. The station's live weather feed, read mid-morning, put the city at 79.9 degrees and feeling like 82.5 under overcast skies, on a day headed for a high of 80.7 and a low of 73.4, with rain showers in the feed's code for the day and the precipitation chance at 45 percent.
The timing matters more than the totals this morning. The Flood Watch this desk has been carrying since the overnight hours - in effect for Miami-Dade from 10 a.m. Sunday, Miami time - is now open, and it covers the hours when the county is at its busiest: the final early voting day running to 7 p.m., Sunday events across South Dade, and the late-afternoon trip to Hard Rock Stadium for the Dolphins' 4:25 p.m. kickoff. The coastal alerts this desk filed overnight run into Monday alongside it.
The pattern does not break quickly. Monday stays wet in the feed - a high of just 76.6 degrees with the precipitation chance up to 62 percent - and Tuesday is the thunderstorm day, back up to 82.5 degrees with thunderstorms coded and the chance again at 62 percent. Wednesday keeps showers around at 41 percent before the week turns.
The turn, when it comes, is a warm one: Thursday reaches 86.3 degrees with the rain chance down to 22 percent, Friday is coded clear at 86.7 with the chance at 9 percent, and Saturday holds in the mid-80s. For Sunday itself, the working advice is the watch's own logic - wet streets, ponding in the usual low spots, and time built into any trip that crosses the county while the watch is open.
