{"id":221874,"date":"2026-04-07T11:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T11:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/221874\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T11:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T11:58:08","slug":"ground-stop-issued-for-arriving-flights-at-miami-international-airport-due-to-thunderstorms-in-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/221874\/","title":{"rendered":"Ground Stop issued for arriving flights at Miami International Airport due to thunderstorms in South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/south-florida\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">South Florida<\/a> is being drenched with heavy rain and thunderstorms, and that&#8217;s having an impact on local airports.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/federal-aviation-administration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Federal Aviation Administration<\/a>, departures to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/miami-international-airport\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Miami International Airport<\/a> were grounded due to thunderstorms.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At 7 a.m., the FAA issued a ground stop only for flights arriving at MIA due to thunderstorms in the area,&#8221; an airport spokesperson told CBS News Miami.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fly.faa.gov\/adv\/adv_otherdis?advn=16&amp;adv_date=04072026&amp;facId=MIA&amp;title=ATCSCC%20ADVZY%20016%20MIA\/ZMA%2004\/07\/2026%20CDM%20GROUND%20STOP&amp;titleDate=04\/07\/2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">ground stop was expected to continue<\/a> through later Tuesday morning, but the FAA warned that it could be extended due to weather conditions.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/news\/south-florida-weather-forecast-flooding-miami-fort-lauderdale-miami-dade-broward-april-7-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NEXT Weather Alert day was in effect<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/south-florida\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">South Florida<\/a> due to the threat of flooding as rounds of heavy rain and thunderstorms continue to push across the region.<\/p>\n<p>A flood watch was issued for parts of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/broward-county\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Broward<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/miami-dade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Miami-Dade<\/a> counties through 10 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Florida is being drenched with heavy rain and thunderstorms, and that&#8217;s having an impact on local airports.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[7811,123,125,1063,124,1064,807,107],"class_list":["post-221874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-federal-aviation-administration","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-international-airport","tag-miami-news","tag-miami-dade","tag-south-florida","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221874","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=221874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}