{"id":372636,"date":"2026-08-16T00:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T00:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/372636\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T00:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T00:08:10","slug":"major-heat-risk-shaping-up-for-south-florida-with-near-record-heat-on-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/372636\/","title":{"rendered":"Major heat risk shaping up for South Florida with near-record heat on Sunday."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. \u2014 We&#8217;ll see dry and warm conditions tonight with temps staying in the  80s for most areas through midnight. <\/p>\n<p>Dangerous heat remains the biggest weather concern across the Palm Beaches and Treasure Coast Sunday and will continue through the workweek too. <\/p>\n<p>Heat advisories will likely be issued again for Sunday with temps expected to peak in the mid 90s.  <\/p>\n<p>With dewpoints in the upper 70s &#8211;  Peak heat indices are forecast as high as 112 degrees multiple days this week.   <\/p>\n<p>MORE WEATHER: <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wptv.com\/weather\/radar\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Radar<\/a> |<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wptv.com\/weather\/alerts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Alerts<\/a> | <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wptv.com\/weather\/maps\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">7-Day Forecast<\/a> | <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wptv.com\/weather\/hourly-forecast\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hourly Forecast<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A plume of Saharan dust is expected to spread across the Florida Peninsula Sunday, bringing considerably drier air into the atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>That should suppress most shower and thunderstorm development, with rain chances falling to around 10% or less across much of the area.<\/p>\n<p>But fewer thunderstorms also mean less afternoon relief from the heat.<\/p>\n<p>Remember to stay hydrated, avoid strenuous activities during peak heating hours,  and take frequent breaks in the shade or A.C. <\/p>\n<p>A little more moisture works in for the second half of the workweek with 20%-30%  storm coverage. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. \u2014 We&#8217;ll see dry and warm conditions tonight with temps staying in the 80s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,21890,21891,21892,21893,21894,21895,21896,21897,21898,13322],"class_list":["post-372636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-indian-river-county-forecast","tag-indian-river-county-weather","tag-martin-county-forecast","tag-martin-county-weather","tag-okeechobee-county-forecast","tag-okeechobee-county-weather","tag-palm-beach-county-forecast","tag-palm-beach-county-weather","tag-south-florida-forecast","tag-south-florida-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372636","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=372636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}