Surface high pressure over South Florida, with tight pressure gradients, kept the area under a easterly breezy wind regime. This brought gusty onshore winds to the coast of Miami-Dade County in South Florida, which led to strong rip currents on April 5.
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Surface high pressure over South Florida, with tight pressure gradients, kept the area under a easterly breezy wind regime. This brought gusty onshore winds to the coast of Miami-Dade County in South Florida, which led to strong rip currents on April 5.
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 Apr 5, 6:04 PM EST, 36 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Miami FL 704 PM EDT Sat Apr 5 2025 ...New AVIATION... .SHORT TERM... (Rest of today through Sunday) Issued at 102 PM EDT Sat Apr 5 2025 Model ensembles and globals continue to show mid-level ridging firmly in place over the west Atlantic, along with sfc high over SoFlo today. Generally benign weather conditions should prevail through the short term, with a persisting dry air mass dominating the mid levels, with the 12Z MIA sounding depicting a dry profile above 850mb, along with PWATs below 1 inch. Pressure gradients remain tight enough to keep the area under a easterly breezy/gusty wind regime, especially along the Atlantic coast. Expect another warm afternoon high temps in the mid-upper 80s near the coasts, and in the low 90s inland. For the nighttime hours, temps will remain on the warm side with overnight lows in the low to mid 70s. The synoptic scenario will begin changing on Sunday as a deepening trough/low complex migrates across the central CONUS. In response, the mid-level ridge will begin pushing eastward, with the 500mb flow shifting to a more southwesterly direction, along with sfc winds becoming SSE by Sunday afternoon. The result will be a warming trend across the area, with highs climbing into the low-mid 90s across SoFlo, warmest around the Lake region and inland locations. This will also push heat indices into the upper 90s to near 100. A few isolated showers may develop late in the day during the late afternoon into the early evening hours near Lake Okeechobee. && .LONG TERM... (Sunday night through next Friday) Issued at 238 PM EDT Sat Apr 5 2025 Sunday Night into Tuesday... The mid to upper level trough will continue to shift eastward from the Central United States into the Eastern United States. This will allow for a cold front to move down the Florida Peninsula on Monday, as a weak mid to upper level disturbance develops along the front in the Gulf. The mid to upper level disturbance will be moving over South Florida on Tuesday with the passage of the cold front. This in turn will increase moisture over South Florida on Tuesday leading to a higher chance of showers and thunderstorms over the region. Therefore, the POPs have been raised to 70 to 90 percent over South Florida for Tuesday. The long range models are now also showing that the mid to upper level disturbance will bring in some colder air aloft to the region on Tuesday from the north. This in turn could allow for a few of the thunderstorms over South Florida to become strong with gusty winds and possible hail along with frequent lightning strikes. Will continue to monitor the latest models to the possibly of strong storms for Tuesday. Highs on Monday will be in the upper 80s to lower 90s over South Florida. However, the heat indices will be in the lower to mid 90s over the region due to the increase in moisture over South Florida. Tuesday highs will be cooler in the 70s north of Alligator Alley and lower to mid 80s over the southern areas of Alligator Alley due to the showers and thunderstorms. Lows Sunday night and Monday night will be in the 60s over the areas to lower to mid 70s over the metro areas, except around 70 west coast metro areas of South Florida. Lows Tuesday night will be cooler with 50s over the interior areas to 60s over the metro areas. Middle Next Week... High pressure will build in over the Southeastern United States for the middle part of next week allowing for the wind flow to become north/northeast over South Florida. This will bring in drier air to most of South Florida, but there could still be some showers over the east coast metro areas due to the onshore flow. Therefore, will keep a 20 to 30 percent chance over the east coast metro areas for middle of next week. Highs will be in the 70s over the east coast metro areas with 80s over rest of South Florida. Lows will be in the 50s over the interior areas to 60s over the metro areas. Late Next Week... Some of the long range models are starting to show the high will move east into the Atlantic waters, as another mid to upper level trough deepens over the Eastern United States allowing for a surface cut off low to develop over the Southeastern United States. This means that South Florida could be in a more south/southwest steering flow with tropical moisture working into the region from the Gulf waters leading to possible wetter conditions. Other long range models are still showing high pressure remaining over the Southeastern United States as the trough of low pressure moves more eastward into the Great Lakes. This weather pattern will keep South Florida in a dry weather pattern for late next week. At this time will not make any major changes to the long range forecast for late next week over South Florida keeping dry conditions at this time. However, we will continue to monitor the latest model runs to see if there is more of a agreement on what weather pattern will set up over the Southeastern areas of South Florida for late next week and the affects on South Florida. && .AVIATION... (00Z TAFS) Issued at 659 PM EDT Sat Apr 5 2025 VFR expected to prevail at all terminals during the 00Z TAF period. Breezy SE winds will continue overnight around 10-13KT. Winds will increase to 13-15KT with gusts to 25KT around 15Z. Occasional MVFR CIGs possible early this evening on the east coast. && .MARINE... Issued at 102 PM EDT Sat Apr 5 2025 A moderate to breeze SE winds continue through early this evening. Small craft should continue to exercise caution over the Atlantic waters as winds gradually subside through Sunday. Seas over the Atlantic waters will range from 3 to 5 feet through the weekend, while the Gulf waters will be in the 2 to 4 feet range. && .BEACHES... Issued at 202 AM EDT Sat Apr 5 2025 As breezy southeasterly winds continue, the high risk of rip currents will remain for the east coast beaches of South Florida through the remainder of the weekend. As winds veer to a southerly and then southwesterly direction early next week, the risk will decrease along the east coast but increase to a high risk along the Gulf beaches. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... Miami 74 84 73 89 / 0 0 0 0 West Kendall 71 86 70 90 / 0 0 0 0 Opa-Locka 72 86 72 90 / 0 0 0 0 Homestead 74 85 72 87 / 0 0 0 0 Fort Lauderdale 74 82 74 88 / 0 0 0 0 N Ft Lauderdale 73 83 73 89 / 0 0 0 0 Pembroke Pines 74 87 73 90 / 0 0 0 0 West Palm Beach 72 84 71 90 / 0 0 0 10 Boca Raton 72 85 72 89 / 0 0 0 10 Naples 70 87 71 85 / 0 0 0 0 && .MFL WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... FL...High Rip Current Risk through Sunday evening for FLZ168-172-173. AM...None. GM...None. && SHORT TERM...99 LONG TERM....BNB AVIATION...JS
Hazardous Weather Outlook...UPDATED National Weather Service Miami FL 423 PM EDT Sat Apr 5 2025 AMZ610-630-650-651-670-671-FLZ063-066>075-168-172>174-GMZ656-657-676- 061130- Lake Okeechobee-Biscayne Bay- Coastal waters from Jupiter Inlet to Deerfield Beach FL out 20 NM- Coastal waters from Deerfield Beach to Ocean Reef FL out 20 NM- Waters from Jupiter Inlet to Deerfield Beach FL from 20 to 60 NM- Waters from Deerfield Beach to Ocean Reef FL from 20 to 60 NM excluding the territorial waters of Bahamas-Glades-Hendry- Inland Palm Beach County-Metro Palm Beach County- Coastal Collier County-Inland Collier County-Inland Broward County- Metro Broward County-Inland Miami-Dade County- Metropolitan Miami Dade-Mainland Monroe-Coastal Palm Beach County- Coastal Broward County-Coastal Miami Dade County-Far South Miami- Dade County- Coastal waters from Chokoloskee to Bonita Beach FL out 20 NM- Coastal waters from East Cape Sable to Chokoloskee FL out 20 NM- Waters from Chokoloskee to Bonita Beach FL from 20 to 60 NM- 423 PM EDT Sat Apr 5 2025 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for Atlantic coastal waters, southeast Florida, southern Florida, southwest Florida and Gulf of America. ...High Risk Of Rip Currents East Coast Beaches... ...A Few Storms Possible Early Next Week... .DAY ONE...Tonight. Rip Currents: There is a high risk of rip currents for the Atlantic Coast beaches. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday. A high risk of rip currents will continue for the Atlantic beaches through the end of this weekend before decreasing early next week as winds veer offshore. The threat of rip currents will increase along the Gulf coast beaches of South Florida early next week. A few thunderstorms could be possible early next week as a front approaches the region. Hazardous marine conditions could return to the region behind a frontal passage early next week. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. Baxter
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 rip current. Local standard time, as filed.
Broadcast media reported that five people were rescued by Miami Beach Fire Rescue and off-duty ocean rescue personnel after being caught in strong rip currents at Miami Beach. All five people were attended to on-scene and did not require hospitalization.
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