Moderate southeast winds led to the development of rip currents along the Palm Beach County coast.
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Moderate southeast winds led to the development of rip currents along the Palm Beach County coast.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Miami, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jan 2, 9:15 AM EST, 2 hours 45 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 915 AM EST SUN JAN 2 2011 .UPDATE... AREAS OF FOG HAVE BURNED OFF THIS MORNING, LEADING TO PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES AND SEASONABLY WARM TEMPERATURES THE REST OF TODAY. BAND OF CLOUDS/LIGHT PRECIP OVER CENTRAL FLORIDA IN ASSOCIATION WITH COLD FRONT UPSTATE WILL NOT MAKE MUCH PROGRESS SOUTHWARD THIS AFTERNOON AS WEAK HIGH PRESSURE RIDGE HOLDS ON OVER THE SOUTH FLORIDA PENINSULA. AS A RESULT, VIRTUALLY NO CHANGES TO EARLY MORNING FORECASTS. /MOLLEDA && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 646 AM EST SUN JAN 2 2011/ HIGH PRESSURE OVER THE WESTERN UNITED STATES WILL CONTINUE TO KEEP SOUTH FLORIDA DRY TODAY INTO TONIGHT. THE WINDS WILL BE FROM THE SOUTHEAST TODAY AROUND 10 KNOTS ALONG THE EAST COAST TAF SITES...BEFORE DECREASING TO LIGHT AND VARIABLE SUNDAY NIGHT. FOR KAPF TAF SITE...THE WINDS WILL BE SOUTHEAST AROUND 5 KNOTS THIS MORNING BEFORE SWINGING TO A WESTERLY DIRECTION THIS AFTERNOON AS THE WEST COAST SEA BREEZE DEVELOPS AND PUSHES INLAND. THE WINDS WILL THEN BECOME LIGHT AND VARIABLE AT KAPF TAF SITE FOR SUNDAY NIGHT. THE CEILING AND VIS WILL ALSO REMAIN IN THE VFR CONDITIONS FOR TODAY INTO SUNDAY NIGHT FOR ALL OF SOUTH FLORIDA TAF SITES. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 448 AM EST SUN JAN 2 2011/ UPDATE...HAVE RECEIVED REPORTS OF DENSE FOG IN THE LAKE OKEECHOBEE REGION WITH VISIBILITY DOWN TO 1/8TH OF A MILE IN SPOTS. SO HAVE ISSUED A DENSE FOG ADVISORY UNTIL 9 AM FOR ALL OF INTERIOR SOUTH FLORIDA...AS ADDITIONAL PATCHY FOG COULD FORM FURTHER SOUTH TOWARDS DAWN. && /GREGORIA PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 342 AM EST SUN JAN 2 2011/ .PLEASANT WEATHER TO CONTINUE... DISCUSSION...MID/UPPER RIDGE EXTENDING FROM THE WESTERN CARIB NORTHEAST TO OFF THE EASTERN SEABOARD WILL CONTINUE TO BE FLATTENED AS A TROUGH MOVING TOWARDS THE OHIO VALLEY MOVES EAST. THIS WILL RESULT IN ZONAL FLOW THROUGH MID WEEK. AN ACTIVE COLD FRONT LIES ACROSS THE FL PANHANDLE WITH TSTORMS EARLY THIS MORNING OUT AHEAD OF IT. THIS FRONT WILL GRADUALLY DISSIPATE AS IT SLIDES SOUTHWARD. THIS WEAKENING BOUNDARY WILL MOVE INTO SOUTH FL LATE MON-TUE BUT OF LITTLE CONSEQUENCE. SO THE RESULT WILL BE A CONTINUATION OF PLEASANT WEATHER ACROSS SOUTH FLORIDA WITH CONTINUED WARM DAYS AND MILD NIGHTS...BUT COOLER INTERIOR. DRY WEATHER WILL CONTINUE. PATCHY FOG IS EXPECTED EARLY THIS MORNING THEN AGAIN TONIGHT ESPECIALLY OVER THE INTERIOR. WILL HAVE TO KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR DENSE FOG POTENTIAL...ESPECIALLY OVER THE INTERIOR TONIGHT. TOWARDS THE LATER PART OF THE WEEK...A MID/UPPER LOW NOW MOVING TOWARDS CALIFORNIA IS SHOWN BY BOTH THE GFS AND ECMWF TO COMBINE WITH A SHORTWAVE DIVING OUT OF CANADA. THIS DEVELOPS LOW PRESSURE OFF THE MID ATLANTIC THURSDAY WITH A COLD FRONT MOVING ACROSS SOUTH FL LATE THU...WITH SOME SHOWERS POSSIBLE. THE ECMWF CONTINUES MILDER COMPARED TO THE GFS...THOUGH RECENT GFS RUNS HAVE BEEN TRENDING TOWARDS THE ECMWF. SO ALTHOUGH COOLER WEATHER WILL PREVAIL FRI-SUN..."COLD" WEATHER IS NOT ANTICIPATED. MARINE...NO CONCERNS UNTIL THE APPROACH OF THE COLD FRONT THURSDAY...WHEN WINDS/SEAS WILL BE ON THE INCREASE. FIRE WEATHER...NO CONCERNS. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... WEST PALM BEACH 79 61 76 59 / - - 10 10 FORT LAUDERDALE 79 64 78 63 / - - 10 10 MIAMI 79 63 78 63 / - - 10 10 NAPLES 75 59 74 56 / - - 10 10 && .MFL WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... FL...NONE. AM...NONE. GM...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTH FLORIDA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 911 AM EST SUN JAN 2 2011 FLZ063-066>075-168-172>174-030515- GLADES-HENDRY-INLAND PALM BEACH-METRO PALM BEACH-COASTAL COLLIER- INLAND COLLIER-INLAND BROWARD-METRO BROWARD-INLAND MIAMI DADE- METRO MIAMI DADE-MAINLAND MONROE-COASTAL PALM BEACH- COASTAL BROWARD-COASTAL MIAMI DADE-FAR SOUTH MIAMI DADE- 911 AM EST SUN JAN 2 2011 ...MODERATE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS EAST COAST BEACHES TODAY... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH FLORIDA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT RIP CURRENTS: SOUTHEAST WINDS AROUND 10 MPH ALONG WITH LOW TIDE EARLY THIS AFTERNOON WILL LEAD TO A MODERATE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS ALONG THE EAST COAST BEACHES OF SOUTH FLORIDA. THE BEST TIME FOR RIP CURRENTS WILL BE AROUND LOW TIDE WHICH WILL BE BETWEEN NOON AND 1 PM EST TODAY. HOWEVER, RIP CURRENTS CAN OCCUR AT ANY TIME. VISIBILITY: PATCHY FOG AND AREAS OF FOG ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE INTERIOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH FLORIDA EARLY MONDAY MORNING. VISIBILITIES IN THE FOG COULD BE LESS THAN A QUARTER OF AN MILE IN ISOLATED AREAS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. FOR MORE INFORMATION...VISIT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI WEBSITE AT WWW.WEATHER.GOV/MIAMI.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 rip current. Local standard time, as filed.
Four people were rescued by lifeguards in Lantana Beach during a one-hour span as a result of rip currents. Three of the four people were from the same family. Paramedics transported the victims as a precaution.
Time is estimated.
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