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Flooding along A1A and near NE 15th Street in Fort Lauderdale Beach around 8:30 a.m. Sunday. Fort Lauderdale police shut down 2 miles of A1A due to flooding about an hour later.<\/p>\n
Dana Banker<\/p>\n
The one-two punch of a higher-than-usual tide and weeks of heavy rain submerged South Florida streets this weekend and put the region under a coastal flood advisory.<\/p>\n
Starting Saturday evening and continuing into Sunday morning\u2019s high tide, the ocean poured into urban cities up and down the coast, breaking a recent record for flooding in Fort Lauderdale and snarling traffic in both counties.<\/p>\n
Fort Lauderdale police shut down 2 miles of major highway A1A<\/a> due to flooding. Hollywood\u2019s Broadwalk was under several inches of saltwater. On Collins Ave in Miami Beach, the yachts along the intracoastal were bobbing nearly at street level. On Northeast 15th Street, social media video showed a Waymo backing up on the street to avoid the floodwaters.<\/p>\n A full moon this weekend marks the next in the series of king tides \u2014 the highest annual tides \u2014 that regularly creep into coastal communities. But it\u2019s flooding more than initial predictions called for.<\/p>\n Robert Molleda, meteorologist in charge at the National Weather Service\u2019s Miami office, called the flooding an \u201cabove-average\u201d event but said he hadn\u2019t heard of water seeping into homes and businesses yet.<\/p>\n High tide measured at Broward\u2019s Port Everglades<\/a> and Miami\u2019s Virginia Key<\/a> has brought moderate coastal flooding for the last few days: about 2 feet more water than normal high tide, with Sunday morning bringing the highest amount.<\/p>\n That\u2019s the highest flooding measured at Broward\u2019s station since it was installed in 2018<\/a>, topping 2022\u2019s Hurricane Nicole. It ranks fourth for the much older station in Miami, nearly two feet below the high water mark set by Hurricane Irma in 2017.<\/p>\n The floodwaters will likely recede by midday as the tide ebbs and the sun dries out puddles, but they will return at the next high tide, around 9:30 p.m. Monday will likely also see more flooding during the 9:30 a.m. high tide.<\/p>\n It\u2019s not quite to the \u201cmajor\u201d flooding designation of 2.5 feet, but it\u2019s enough to wreak some havoc in South Florida. It\u2019s also a sign of what\u2019s to come from sea level rise. As climate change warms the world, sea levels are rising and pushing these king tides higher and higher.<\/p>\n Sea levels have risen 8 inches alone in the last 30 years, and another foot is on the way by about 2050, research suggests<\/a>.<\/p>\n Floodwaters reached beyond the sands of Fort Lauderdale Beach on Sunday. The high tide was the highest on record in Fort Lauderdale since NOAA installed real time sensors to measure water levels. Dana Banker <\/p>\n
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