Miami faces significant flood threat Monday as tropical moisture fuels heavy rain across South Florida

Flood ticker for Miami and overmuch of South Florida

The Miami metro country and astir of South Florida are nether a Flood Watch done Tuesday morning, arsenic dense tropical moisture moves implicit the Sunshine state, bringing repeated rounds of rain. A Level 3 retired of 4 flash flood menace is present up for parts of South Florida, including Miami and Fort Lauderdale. 

MIAMI — The Miami metro country and astir of South Florida are nether a Flood Watch done Tuesday morning, arsenic dense tropical moisture moves implicit the Sunshine State, bringing repeated rounds of rain.

A Level 3 retired of 4 flash flood risk has been issued for parts of South Florida, including Miami and Fort Lauderdale, arsenic dense rainfall has already begun to swamp the area. The Flood Watch covers areas from Naples to West Palm Beach and includes the Alligator Alley information of Interstate 75.

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Orlando, successful Central Florida, has seen much than 2.75 inches of rainfall since Sunday morning.

Rounds of storms volition persist for South Florida done Monday. About 3-6 inches of rainfall is expected for astir of the Miami metro country by Tuesday. Some pockets of the metropolis could spot arsenic overmuch arsenic 8 inches, according to the National Weather Service successful Miami.

"Take an ample magnitude of clip to get to wherever you request to go," cautioned FOX Weather meteorologist Kendall Smith.

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FILE - A rainfall squall passes implicit the skyline connected April 10, 2023, successful Miami, Florida. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

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Daytime heating could bring terrible storms to Florida Monday

In summation to dependable rain, determination is the imaginable for severe storm improvement Monday afternoon.

Daytime heating volition play a cardinal relation successful the improvement of immoderate thunderstorms. If temperatures tin emergence enough, terrible storms would beryllium capable to signifier and perchance nutrient damaging wind gusts and adjacent a tornado.

That comes aft the Florida panhandle was blasted by an atmospheric stream implicit the weekend, including a imaginable tornado that damaged businesses and vehicles successful Destin connected Saturday.

Storms volition gradually determination eastbound Monday. While the main beforehand that's liable for bringing the bedewed upwind volition beryllium disconnected the Florida seashore by Tuesday, tropical moisture from the Gulf volition linger and could nutrient storms done Tuesday day earlier adust upwind returns.

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Rain volition assistance easiness Florida drought conditions

This rainfall volition assistance amended Florida's ongoing drought arsenic the authorities transitions from its adust play into the wetter months.

According to the FOX Forecast Center, each large upwind presumption successful the Florida Peninsula is betwixt 2 and 9 inches beneath mean for the year. 

Forecasters expect that determination volition beryllium capable moisture to enactment a important dent successful those ongoing rainfall deficits.

"The information that we person that shortage of astir 12 inches (in the Miami metro area), we could easy erase that and past some, successful conscionable astir 24 hours," said Smith.

Daytona Beach, Melbourne, West Palm Beach and Naples are each experiencing their top-10 driest starts to the twelvemonth connected record.