Prolonged periods of dry weather across much of Southeast Florida since the winter months led to drought conditions entering August. Summer rainfall focused over western portions of the peninsula allowed for some improvement of the drought over the southern Everglades but areas of the east coast metropolitan areas suffered worsening of the drought due to limited rainfall.
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The episode as NWS MFL wrote it up.
Prolonged periods of dry weather across much of Southeast Florida since the winter months led to drought conditions entering August. Summer rainfall focused over western portions of the peninsula allowed for some improvement of the drought over the southern Everglades but areas of the east coast metropolitan areas suffered worsening of the drought due to limited rainfall.
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 Jul 31, 6:42 PM EST, 5 hours 18 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Miami FL 742 PM EDT Thu Jul 31 2025 ...New AVIATION... .UPDATE... Issued at 1105 AM EDT Thu Jul 31 2025 A hot start to this Thursday with temperatures already reaching the lower to mid 90s and heat index values following into the triple digits. A short-fused Heat Advisory is now in effect for most of South Florida (except coastal Collier and mainland Monroe where the Gulf sea breeze is now advancing inland) through 7 PM. Guidance has struggled to capture the warming trend and was several degrees cooler at the start of diurnal warm-up this morning which necessitated a quick grid update to trend towards the warmer side of the guidance envelope. Wind flow remains light which should also allow the heat index to quickly climb until the sea breeze and convection gets going later this afternoon into the evening. && .SHORT TERM... (Today through Friday) Issued at 101 AM EDT Thu Jul 31 2025 Upper level ridging remains in place across Florida today. As we progress into Friday, surface high pressure over the northern plains will build into the Great Lakes region and a trough begins to dig into the eastern US. This will help push a frontal boundary that is currently draped from the central plains over to New England southward into the SE US. Our sensible weather today and Friday will be fairly similar to what we've seen for much of the week with a light SE flow coming in off the Atlantic. Overnight and early morning scattered showers and isolated thunderstorms will give way to sea-breeze driven storms during the afternoon and early evening each day, with the highest PoPs favoring inland areas and SW FL. Temps will continue to be slightly above normal with lower 90s across the east coast metro and along the Gulf coast, to mid and upper 90s over interior portions of South FL. Much has been the case this week, max heat indices will approach advisory criteria, but HREF probs for exceeding criteria remain below 10%, so headlines are not expected. Low temps tonight will range from the middle 70s over interior South FL to around 80 close to the coasts. && .LONG TERM... (Friday night through Wednesday) Issued at 101 AM EDT Thu Jul 31 2025 This weekend the frontal boundary over the SE US will settle over approx northern FL before stalling through early next week. This will result in increased mid and upper level moisture across South FL. In addition, several weak upper level impulses will traverse South FL early to mid week. All of this will combine to result in an increase of coverage of convection each day, although the highest PoPs each day will still favor inland areas and SW FL with the low level flow remaining out of the E/SE through at least the middle of next week. Temps during the extended period will remain slightly above normal with highs each day generally in the lower 90s across the east coast metro, to mid and upper 90s across inland areas and SW FL. Low temps will be in the middle 70s over inland areas and around 80 closer to the coasts. Max heat indices will continue to approach advisory criteria of 105-110 each day. && .AVIATION... (00Z TAFS) Issued at 734 PM EDT Thu Jul 31 2025 Light and variable winds overnight, then southeasterly flow returns mid morning tomorrow, while southwesterly winds at KAPF as the Gulf breeze moves inland. Slight chance of showers and thunderstorms just inland of the terminals in the afternoon. && .MARINE... Issued at 101 AM EDT Thu Jul 31 2025 Gentle southeasterly winds will prevail through the weekend, with west to southwesterly winds over the Gulf waters developing each afternoon. Seas generally a foot or less in both the Atlantic and Gulf waters. Scattered thunderstorms are expected each day, which may result in locally hazardous winds and seas. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... Miami 81 93 80 93 / 10 30 10 20 West Kendall 78 93 76 93 / 10 30 10 20 Opa-Locka 80 94 79 94 / 10 40 10 20 Homestead 79 91 78 92 / 10 20 10 20 Fort Lauderdale 81 91 80 92 / 10 40 10 20 N Ft Lauderdale 81 92 80 93 / 10 40 10 20 Pembroke Pines 82 96 81 96 / 10 40 10 20 West Palm Beach 78 94 78 94 / 10 40 10 30 Boca Raton 79 94 78 94 / 10 40 10 20 Naples 81 93 79 93 / 20 50 20 40 && .MFL WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... FL...None. AM...None. GM...None. && SHORT TERM...CMF LONG TERM....CMF AVIATION...ATV
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
12 drought. Local standard time, as filed.
Mainland Monroe County began the month of August in a severe (D2) drought which improved to moderate (D1) drought with rainfall activity through the month.
East portions of inland Collier County began the month of August in a severe (D2) drought which improved to moderate (D1) drought with rainfall activity through the month.
A large portion of inland Palm Beach County began the month of August in a moderate (D1) to severe (D2) drought which lingered until rainfall activity early in the month allowed slight improvement to moderate (D1) drought over much of the area except the easternmost portion.
Inland Broward County began the month of August in a severe (D2) drought which lingered until rainfall activity early in the month allowed slight improvement to moderate (D1) drought over much of the area except the easternmost portion.
Inland Miami-Dade County began the month of August in a severe (D2) to extreme (D3) drought which improved to moderate (D1) to severe (D2) drought with rainfall activity through the month.
Far South Miami-Dade County began the month of August in a severe (D2) to extreme (D3) drought which improved to moderate (D1) to severe (D2) drought with rainfall activity through the month.
A lack of substantial rainfall led to lingering Severe (D2) drought across Metropolitan Miami-Dade County to during the month of August.
A lack of substantial rainfall led to the worsening of Moderate (D1) to Severe (D2) drought across Coastal Broward County to Severe (D2) to Extreme (D3) drough during the month of August.
A lack of substantial rainfall led to the worsening of Moderate (D1) to Severe (D2) drought across metro Broward County to Severe (D2) to Extreme (D3) drought during the month of August.
A lack of substantial rainfall led to the worsening of Moderate (D1) to Severe (D2) drought across metro Palm Beach County to Severe (D2) to Extreme (D3) drought during the month of August.
A lack of substantial rainfall led to the worsening of Moderate (D1) to Severe (D2) drought across coastal Palm Beach County to Severe (D2) to Extreme (D3) drought during the month of August.
A lack of substantial rainfall led to lingering Severe (D2) drought across coastal Miami-Dade County to during the month of August.
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