{"id":2287,"date":"2025-10-14T12:21:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T12:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/2287\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T12:21:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T12:21:25","slug":"king-tides-bring-flooding-to-parts-of-fort-lauderdale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/2287\/","title":{"rendered":"King tides bring flooding to parts of Fort Lauderdale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0October 6, 2025 at 12:28 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0October 6, 2025 at 3:47 PM<\/p>\n<p>King tides cause flooding in Fort Lauderdale  King tides caused a flood of trouble Monday morning in Fort Lauderdale, leaving some streets underwater. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.  \u2014 King tides caused a flood of trouble Monday morning in Fort Lauderdale, leaving some streets underwater.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2025\/10\/06\/mareas-extraordinarias-inundan-calles-de-fort-lauderdale\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2025\/10\/06\/mareas-extraordinarias-inundan-calles-de-fort-lauderdale\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Local 10 News reporter Gabrielle Arzola was in the Hendricks and Venice Isles area as the water was past her ankles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Drivers in the area were driving slowly through the floodwaters as a precaution, and residents in the area said they are used to this happening every year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">South Florida\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/weather\/2025\/10\/06\/king-tides-return-to-south-florida-when-to-expect-them-county-by-county\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/weather\/2025\/10\/06\/king-tides-return-to-south-florida-when-to-expect-them-county-by-county\/\">annual king tides will last through December.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Seasonally, king tides are the highest astronomical tides that line up with full and new moons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cKing tide\u201d is the popular name for perigean spring tides \u2014 the extra-high high tides that occur when full and new moons align with the Moon\u2019s closest approach to Earth. On top of the astronomical setup, onshore wind and low pressure can add a few inches to a foot or more, turning high water into nuisance flooding on vulnerable blocks.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2025 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Gabrielle Arzola\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/78673faa-0bcf-4b53-bb07-.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Gabrielle Arzola<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Gabrielle Arzola is an award-winning journalist and proud Miami native. For nearly a decade, she has reported across Florida, with previous stops in Gainesville and Tampa before returning home to cover the community she loves most.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Brantly Scott\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/fa285d94-a952-4311-929c-.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Brantly Scott<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">A native of the Sunshine State, Meteorologist Brantly Scott is originally from Pensacola in the Florida Panhandle. His passion for weather was shaped by the active hurricane seasons of his childhood, particularly when his hometown experienced back-to-back hurricane landfalls in 2004 and 2005.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0October 6, 2025 at 12:28 PM Updated:\u00a0October 6, 2025 at 3:47 PM King tides cause flooding in Fort&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-2287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287","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=2287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}