{"id":359790,"date":"2026-08-01T08:42:43","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T08:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/359790\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T08:42:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T08:42:43","slug":"heavy-rain-impacts-southwest-florida-severe-flooding-reported-southwest-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/359790\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy rain impacts Southwest Florida, severe flooding reported | Southwest Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">SOUTHWEST FLORIDA, (WINK) \u2014 The Weather Authority is monitoring heavy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winknews.com\/weather\/tracking-more-rain-chances-as-we-head-into-august\/article_3a6aea16-0fed-422f-a49f-b9e0413b56e7.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">rain impacts throughout Southwest Florida<\/a>, as our Weather Watchers contribute photos of flooding throughout the area.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">On Thursday, our meteorologists called for isolated showers and storms throughout the day, with breezier conditions expected this afternoon. Highs will be seasonal and in the upper 80s to lower 90s.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Weather Watcher Tim Crout captured photos of Thursday\u2019s rain impacts in Port Charlotte, in which a vehicle was seen partially submerged in a flooded side street.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Check out the photos provided below.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Reporter Brinkley Hill is en route to Port Charlotte to display the weather impact on the area.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/wink-weather\/id493972179\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WINK Weather app<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/channelstore.roku.com\/details\/66e3c34b234e0d32286ea9f32b263f6d\/wink-news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">stream the latest<\/a> forecast or <a href=\"https:\/\/winknews.com\/doppler-3x\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WINK Doppler 3x<\/a> anywhere you go.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">If you see any dramatic weather images that you want featured in a story online or on air, send them <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winknews.com\/news\/southwest_florida\/heavy-rain-impacts-southwest-florida-severe-flooding-reported\/mailto:tips@winknews.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tips@winknews.com<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SOUTHWEST FLORIDA, (WINK) \u2014 The Weather Authority is monitoring heavy rain impacts throughout Southwest Florida, as our Weather&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4250,85248,28,30,29,115,121785],"class_list":["post-359790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-charlotte","tag-explainers","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-news","tag-southwest_florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359790","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=359790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}