Catherine Rusoff
South Florida was left in a state of emergency after rainy days dumped more than a foot of rain in many parts of the region. The deluge created what has been compared to scenes from “zombie movies” and triggered a rare warning from the National Weather Service as the precipitation continues into Friday.
“It looked like the beginning of a zombie movie,” tow truck driver Ted Rico told Associated Press. “There are cars scattered everywhere, on the sidewalks, in the median, in the middle of the street, with no lights on. Just crazy, you know. Abandoned cars everywhere.”
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Rico, a Miami resident who has helped clear the streets of parked cars, said that “every year the situation is getting worse.”
The rains that began at the beginning of this week caused a rare “high risk” warning of excessive rainfall from the National Weather Service on Thursday. The agency said soils overly saturated with precipitation created the opportunity for flash flooding and could bring an additional 10 inches of rain in some locations.
The last time such a warning was issued was in 2022, said CBS News senior weather producer David Parkinson. As of Friday, the risk of excessive rainfall has been downgraded to moderate, he added.
Despite the downgraded alert, there is still potential for significant damage and flooding. The NWS said Friday that continued rain could bring “considerable local damage catastrophic urban flooding“during the day throughout South Florida. The service station in Miami says a Flood watch will remain in effect until Friday night.
About 50 centimeters of rain – almost 60 centimeters – fell in some areas, and forecasters said another 2 to 4 inches of rain is possible on Friday, with some areas seeing even higher values. Although hurricane forecaster Alex DaSilva told the Associated Press that June is Florida’s wettest month, he said it is “unusual“How much rain fell in just a few days.
Two weather systems are behind schedule, DaSilva told the AP, saying they are working to essentially funnel moisture from the Caribbean.
“It’s essentially a fire hose turned on in jet mode,” DaSilva said. “We also have a stagnant front across Florida, which has helped increase precipitation.”
The torrential rains and floods that closed streets and even caused a 1 in 1,000 year event further north, in Sarasota, it comes at the start of the Atlantic hurricane season, which officials predicted would be “extremely active.”
This hurricane season, which officially began on June 1, is expected to bring up to 25 named stormsup to 13 hurricanes and between four and seven major hurricanes that are at least Category 3. Major hurricane status, however, does not mean that lesser hurricanes or storms will not pose significant threats in their own right, as the hurricane’s classification depends only from the Saffir-Simpson Scale, which only considers wind speed and not storms, floods and other impacts.
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