A woman walks through the flooded streets of Indian Creek during King Tide in Miami Beach Florida, on Tuesday October 27, 2026.
Pedro Portal
pportal@miamiherald.com
Waves of water sloshed onto the streets of South Florida earlier this week, flooding cars and soaking feet.
The record-breaking king tide is over for now — but the water will rise again soon.
The next king tide is forecast for Nov. 6-9. While minor to moderate flooding is possible, water levels are not expected to reach the level seen this week.
And it’s not over yet. Another king tide is coming Nov. 23-26.
“For our upcoming king tide, we’re not expecting it to reach that major flood stage at this point,” Alejandra Garcia, a forecaster with the National Weather Service in Miami, said Friday.
This week marked the most intense expected king tide of the season, seriously flooding some coastal areas, Garcia said, and triggering a coastal flood warning.
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The impacts were compounded by strong onshore winds, with gusty conditions pushing additional water toward the shoreline.
The combination created a “perfect storm” for coastal flooding, prompting the warning for coastal areas of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties, Garcia said.
Times for high tide and low tide vary on location, and if you’d like to know about your specific area you can search on https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/tide_predictions.html.
King tide impact can start two hours before high tide and last two hours after, Garcia said.
Rain will fall this weekend and into early next week. If the ground gets saturated, even scattered showers later in the week could worsen standing water issues, she said.
Combined with coastal flooding associated with king tides, the rainfall could lead to more standing water in some areas. Miami Beach Fort Lauderdale and parts of the downtown Miami area saw the worst of the flooding this past week.
“Never drive through saltwater flooding,” Garcia said, noting that it can damage cars. “We saw a lot of that this time around.”
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