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Heavy Rains, Excessive Winds Deliver Flooding, Injury to South Florida
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Why has it been raining a lot in south Florida? Consultants say the newest windy, wet storm system seen this week has nothing to do with hurricane season.
The storm system that fashioned over the Florida Keys this week and dumped as much as 9 inches (23 centimeters) of rain throughout components of South Florida has moved into the Atlantic Ocean, bringing clearing skies to the area on Thursday, the Nationwide Climate Service in Miami stated.
Whereas hurricane season doesn`t formally finish till Nov. 30, this storm wasn`t related to a tropical system, in accordance with Luke Culver, a meteorologist with the Nationwide Climate Service in Miami.
“It`s not thought of a tropical system due to the best way it fashioned,” Culver stated, noting that the system developed extra like a nor`easter, that are extra widespread within the northeastern United States.
Heavy rain began falling throughout South Florida on Tuesday evening, persevering with into Wednesday earlier than largely ending early Thursday. Excessive winds accompanied the rain, with some areas alongside the South Florida shoreline experiencing gusts as much as 70 mph (112 kph), Culver stated.
The potential for flooding led officers with the Broward County college system to cancel lessons on Thursday. The district is the nation`s sixth largest, with greater than 251,000 college students. Faculties in neighboring Miami-Dade County remained open on Thursday.
Throughout a 24-hour interval starting Wednesday mornings, some areas in Miami obtained between 5 and 9 inches (12 to 23 centimeters) of rain, whereas the Fort Lauderdale space recorded between 4 and seven inches (10 to 18 centimeters), Culver stated.
It`s the second time this 12 months that Fort Lauderdale has skilled heavy rainfall throughout a one-day interval.
In mid-April, a storm system that stalled over South Florida dumped as much as 25 inches (63.5 centimeters) of rain on components of Fort Lauderdale, inflicting neighborhoods to flood. The fast-rising water left dozens of motorists stranded on flooded streets and compelled Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood Worldwide Airport to shut.
“I believe it`s nearly extra of a foul luck sort of factor,” Culver stated. “That one occasion (in April) was clearly very historic, on the intense finish of the dimensions, the place that is extra of an occasion that happens each few years. It simply occurred to be that they have been each in the identical 12 months.”
Florida’s chief monetary officer on Thursday shared hyperlinks for submitting flood insurance coverage claims and different insurance coverage resources.
Photograph: Bernadette Romero Eden walks her canine “Pitaya” on a flooded avenue in Oakland Park, in south Florida, on Thursday (Joe Cavaretta/South Florida Solar-Sentinel through AP)
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