The National Weather Service is calling for a very wet week ahead in South Florida.
There’s a 70% to 80% chance of rain most afternoons and evenings through Friday. Mornings should be drier. Those chances drop to around 50% by Saturday and Sunday.
“The overall wet pattern should continue through the end of the workweek,” forecasters said. “The risk of flooding will likely peak in the Wed-Thu timeframe as the boundary slides into the southern tip of the peninsula.”
Meteorologist Sammy Hadi, of the National Weather Service’s Miami office, said most mornings should be dry, with storms kicking up about noon, then dissipating by nighttime.
“It’s not going to be widespread flooding,” Hadi said. “But where thunderstorms do occur, we could see quick totals of 2 to 3 inches possible or more, and that could result in localized street flooding.”
These rainfall bursts will be localized and not widespread, but could occur in several areas on different days through the week, he said.
Hadi noted that the rain is not from any sort of tropical system, but rather the result of a frontal boundary stuck over Florida combined with moisture moving up from the Caribbean, and sea breezes pushing in from the Atlantic.
Those forces will prompt the heavy afternoon showers until the front moves on. Forecasters said that could happen over the weekend.
