{"id":193189,"date":"2026-03-16T07:46:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T07:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/193189\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T07:46:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T07:46:17","slug":"southwest-florida-weather-forecast-weather-forecast-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/193189\/","title":{"rendered":"Southwest Florida Weather Forecast | Weather Forecast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bulletin: &#8230;HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM MONDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH<br \/>\nTUESDAY EVENING&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>* WHAT&#8230;Dangerous rip currents expected.<\/p>\n<p>* WHERE&#8230;Pinellas, Coastal Hillsborough, Coastal Manatee,<br \/>\nCoastal Sarasota, Coastal Charlotte and Coastal Lee Counties.<\/p>\n<p>* WHEN&#8230;From Monday afternoon through Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>* IMPACTS&#8230;Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away<br \/>\nfrom shore into deeper water.<\/p>\n<p>PRECAUTIONARY\/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and<br \/>\nfloat. Don&#8217;t swim against the current. If able, swim in a<br \/>\ndirection following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the<br \/>\nshore and call or wave for help.<\/p>\n<p>&amp;&amp;<\/p>\n<p>Info: <\/p>\n<p>Type: Rip Current Statement<\/p>\n<p>start_time_local: 2026-03-16T14:00:00-04:00<\/p>\n<p>end_time_local: 2026-03-17T20:00:00-04:00<\/p>\n<p>county_name: <\/p>\n<p>state: FL<\/p>\n<p>headline: Rip Current Statement from MON 2:00 PM EDT until TUE 8:00 PM EDT<\/p>\n<p>county_fips: <\/p>\n<p>category: Met<\/p>\n<p>url: <\/p>\n<p>urgency: Expected<\/p>\n<p>severity: Moderate<\/p>\n<p>certainty: Likely<\/p>\n<p>geographicname: Coastal Lee County<\/p>\n<p>state_name: Florida<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bulletin: &#8230;HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM MONDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH TUESDAY EVENING&#8230; * WHAT&#8230;Dangerous rip currents expected.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,221],"class_list":["post-193189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193189","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=193189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}