{"id":408352,"date":"2026-09-23T15:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T15:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/408352\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T15:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T15:50:08","slug":"fort-lauderdale-sets-september-rain-record-topping-20-inches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/408352\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Lauderdale sets September rain record, topping 20 inches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fort Lauderdale has received more than 20 inches of rain this September \u2014 surpassing the city\u2019s all-time record for the month, the National Weather Service in Miami said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The previous record for the month was set 28 years ago in September 1998, when Fort Lauderdale received 18.4 inches of rain.<\/p>\n<p>As of early Wednesday, the city had received 20.75 inches for the month, more than double what is considered average, or 8.61 inches.<\/p>\n<p>The record-setting total is bound to keep rising.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAdditional rainfall is possible later today &amp; over the next several days before September ends,\u201d the weather service said.<\/p>\n<p>The weather service says some parts of South Florida could see as much as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/2026\/09\/22\/parts-of-south-florida-could-see-as-much-as-10-inches-of-rain-this-week\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">8 to 10 inches of rain<\/a> this week, as storms keep pummeling the region with downpours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fort Lauderdale has received more than 20 inches of rain this September \u2014 surpassing the city\u2019s all-time record&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408353,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250,114,115,109,221],"class_list":["post-408352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news","tag-latest-headlines","tag-news","tag-social","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408352","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=408352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}