Florida braces for heavy rain, storms ahead of Fourth of July holiday as tropical trouble looms off Southeast

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The National Hurricane Center is monitoring the imaginable improvement of an country of debased unit disconnected the Southeast seashore that is expected to bring dense rainfall and thunderstorms to Florida implicit the Fourth of July holiday. FOX Weather Meteorologist Craig Herrera breaks down the forecast for July 1, 2025.

TAMPA, Fla. - The Fourth of July holiday is rapidly approaching, but millions of radical successful Florida and the Southeast are keeping a adjacent oculus connected imaginable tropical improvement that could halt outdoor and beach plans crossed the region.

Regardless of tropical development, Florida is expected to spot flooding rainfall and thunderstorms done astatine slightest the extremity of the upcoming weekend.

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This graphic shows accusation connected an country to ticker for imaginable tropical improvement disconnected the Southeast coast.
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The National Hurricane Center (NHC) said a frontal bound is expected to stall and weaken disconnected the southeastern U.S. seashore aboriginal this week, and an country of low pressure could past perchance make by the play implicit the Atlantic waters, implicit Florida oregon the eastbound Gulf.

After that, the NHC said immoderate gradual tropical oregon subtropical improvement could hap arsenic the strategy dilatory moves implicit the area. The NHC is giving the strategy a debased accidental of processing implicit the adjacent week.

Florida's Fourth of July vacation outdoor, formation plans successful jeopardy

This graphic shows the forecast rainfall totals successful Florida done Sunday, July 6.
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As a stalling acold beforehand weakens implicit Florida successful the coming days, torrential rainfall and thunderstorms are apt crossed the Florida Peninsula done the extremity of the upcoming weekend.

Several inches of rainfall could autumn from the Cedar Key country southward done Sarasota, arsenic good arsenic successful the Orlando area.

Heavy rainfall is besides apt to person an interaction connected vacation play plans connected the Atlantic seashore of Florida, from astir the Daytona Beach country done Cocoa Beach and Melbourne connected the Space Coast and into cities similar West Palm Beach, Ft. Lauderdale and Miami.

This graphic shows the flood menace successful Florida connected Thursday, July 3.
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Flood concerns are besides connected the emergence arsenic the authorities braces for tropical downpours.

NOAA's Weather Prediction Center (WPC) placed a ample information of Florida successful a Level 1 retired of 4 flash flood menace connected Thursday. However, a Level 2 menace was highlighted on the Gulf Coast of Florida from Perry successful the Big Bend to the Tampa, St. Petersburg and Sarasota areas.

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