{"id":157464,"date":"2026-02-16T18:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T18:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/157464\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T18:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T18:45:07","slug":"dry-warmer-week-ahead-for-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/157464\/","title":{"rendered":"Dry, warmer week ahead for South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dry air should move into South Florida this week, along with warm sunshine.<\/p>\n<p>Overnight Tuesday, a drier and more stable air mass will descend upon the state, creating a near-zero chance of rain throughout the week and into the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Chances of rain are very low, with the exception of a brief coastal shower toward the end of the week. Sunny skies will prevail as well, pushing afternoon highs to the mid-upper 80s toward the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Overnight lows should be in the mid-60s all week, with mostly clear skies.<\/p>\n<p>Forecasters said there was a chance inland areas could reach 90 degrees Friday or Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>By Sunday a bit of moisture may move into the region, but forecasters said it\u2019s too early to predict any significant rainfall.<\/p>\n<p>Drought conditions will continue this week, and into the spring.<\/p>\n<p>Metro Broward, metro Miami-Dade and southeast Palm Beach counties are all in moderate drought.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the rest of South Florida is in severe drought and parts of the Everglades and Big Cypress National Preserve are in extreme drought conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the five-day forecast for Broward and Palm Beach counties, summarized by AI based on information from the National Weather Service. All text is reviewed and edited by our journalists.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday: Expect mostly sunny skies across the region. Highs will be around 78 degrees. Expect east winds of about 13 mph.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday night: Overnight lows will drop to around 65 degrees.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday: Expect mostly sunny skies across the region. Highs will range from 78 degrees in Broward County to 81 degrees in Palm Beach County. Expect southeast winds of about 8 mph.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday night: Overnight lows will drop to around 63 degrees.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday: Expect sunny skies across the region. Highs will be around 83 degrees. Expect winds of about 7 mph.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday night: Overnight lows will drop to around 63 degrees.<\/p>\n<p>Friday: Expect mostly sunny skies across the region. Highs will range from 82 degrees in Broward County to 85 degrees in Palm Beach County. Expect south winds of about 8 mph.<\/p>\n<p>Friday night: Overnight lows will drop to around 65 degrees.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday: Expect sunny skies across the region. Highs will be around 84 degrees.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday night: Overnight lows will drop to around 65 degrees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dry air should move into South Florida this week, along with warm sunshine. Overnight Tuesday, a drier and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157465,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[506,28,30,29,114,373,115,557,109,221],"class_list":{"0":"post-157464","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-broward-county","9":"tag-florida","10":"tag-florida-headlines","11":"tag-florida-news","12":"tag-latest-headlines","13":"tag-miami-dade-county","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-palm-beach-county","16":"tag-social","17":"tag-weather"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}