Miami Beach Forecast High Rip Current Risk Through Friday Sunny Skies Upper Seventies

About this episode

The episode discusses the high rip current risk along the Miami Beach area and provides a weather forecast for the upcoming days.

Good afternoon from the National Weather Service in Miami. Here's your surf zone forecast for Thursday through Friday. If you're planning a beach day along the Atlantic coast, we need to talk about rip currents. A HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK remains in effect through Friday evening for Palm Beach, and through Friday morning for Broward and Miami-Dade counties. These are life-threatening rip currents that are likely in the surf zone, so exercise extreme caution if you venture into the water. Starting with the rest of today, expect mostly cloudy skies across southeast Florida with highs in the upper seventies to around eighty degrees. Surf heights will be modest, ranging from around two feet in Palm Beach down to one to two feet for Broward and Miami-Dade. Water temperatures are pleasant, sitting in the mid seventies. East winds will be light to moderate, around ten to fifteen miles per hour depending on your location. The good news is there's no thunderstorm or waterspout risk today, so at least you won't have to worry about storms rolling in while you're at the beach. Moving into Friday, conditions improve slightly but the rip current threat persists. Expect partly sunny skies with…

Topics covered

• weather forecast
• rip current risk
• beach safety
• surf conditions
• Miami Beach

Keywords

• rip currents
• surf zone forecast
• Miami Beach
• weather
• beach day
• southeast Florida
• temperatures
• winds

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: National Weather Service

Places: Miami, Palm Beach, Broward, Miami-Dade, Atlantic coast

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