{"id":221865,"date":"2026-04-07T11:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T11:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/221865\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T11:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T11:44:11","slug":"flood-watch-in-effect-for-miami-dade-broward-as-rainy-weather-returns-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/221865\/","title":{"rendered":"Flood watch in effect for Miami-Dade, Broward as rainy weather returns \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As rain continues throughout South Florida, a flood watch is in effect for Miami-Dade and Broward counties, the National Weather Service said. <\/p>\n<p>According to the NWS, the flood warning will be in effect until 10 p.m. <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Flood Watch is in effect for the east coast metro until 10 PM this evening. Multiple rounds of heavy rainfall may lead to urban and poor drainage flooding. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FLwx?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#FLwx<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zbVY1r6DFU\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/zbVY1r6DFU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NWS Miami (@NWSMiami) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NWSMiami\/status\/2041410647465017414?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 7, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Over the next three days, expect periods of passing showers and a few storms, with rainfall possibly heavy at times.<\/p>\n<p>What should South Florida expect?<\/p>\n<p>Expect periods of heavy rain, strong gusty winds, high rip currents and the growing threat of flash floods.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>How much rain should we expect?<\/p>\n<p>Two to four inches of rain remains possible by the end of the week, with a chance that some communities could exceed that range.<\/p>\n<p>The rain will likely bring us relief from the extreme drought still hindering the region.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By Friday, we&#8217;ll have a few more lingering storms around before drier air returns for the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As rain continues throughout South Florida, a flood watch is in effect for Miami-Dade and Broward counties, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[506,123,125,124,373,10173,807],"class_list":{"0":"post-221865","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami","8":"tag-broward-county","9":"tag-miami","10":"tag-miami-headlines","11":"tag-miami-news","12":"tag-miami-dade-county","13":"tag-severe-weather","14":"tag-south-florida"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221865","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=221865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}