{"id":445544,"date":"2026-11-02T23:14:15","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T23:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/445544\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T23:14:15","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T23:14:15","slug":"flood-watch-continues-for-south-florida-amid-heavy-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/445544\/","title":{"rendered":"Flood watch continues for South Florida amid heavy rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/1793661253_144_author_avatar.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Danielle Scruggs\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/1793661253_144_author_avatar.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Danielle Scruggs\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">WPBF 25 First Warning meteorologists are tracking severe weather across South Florida as heavy rains continue to impact the region.  <\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/b67397b5-f2e0-4ba1-8b6a-312f7cdf7842.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" draggable=\"true\" class=\"css-fphibt\"\/><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/b67397b5-f2e0-4ba1-8b6a-312f7cdf7842.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"css-hr9vxw\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">The area received between 6 and 16 inches of rainfall in spots over the last 24 hours.  <\/p>\n<p>Weather Alerts<br \/>A flood watch is in effect for all of South Florida until 7 p.m. Flash flood warning in effect for St. Lucie and Indian River counties including Fort Pierce, Vero Beach, Vero Beach South, Indrio, Gifford, Fort Pierce Inlet, White City, Saint Lucie Nuclear Power Plant, Lakewood Park, Vero Beach Highland, Saint Lucie Airport, Pointe West, Fort Pierce North, Saint Lucie Village, South Beach, Queens Cove, Fort Pierce South and Indian River Estates  until 8 p.m. A Flash flood warning was issued for Palm Beach County including West Palm Beach, Boca Raton, Boynton Beach, Delray Beach, Lake Worth, Riviera Beach, Palm Beach, Highland Beach, Ocean Ridge, Greenacres, Palm Springs, Lantana, Atlantis, Haverhill, Cloud Lake, Gun Club Estates, President Donald J. Trump International Airport, Royal Palm Estates and Lake Belvedere Estates until 7:30 p.m.Flood Warning: Central Martin County\/South Central St. Lucie County until 7:30 p.m.Flood Warning: Southeastern Indian River County to Northeastern Martin County until 6:45 p.m.Flood Warning: Northern Indian River County until 9:30 p.m.<img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/b8d90169-440e-408c-892b-c79332a7c249.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" draggable=\"true\" class=\"css-fphibt\"\/><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/b8d90169-440e-408c-892b-c79332a7c249.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"css-hr9vxw\"\/><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/9d55ebd4-9877-43ac-b3bd-e1562a3e4a3c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" draggable=\"true\" class=\"css-fphibt\"\/><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/9d55ebd4-9877-43ac-b3bd-e1562a3e4a3c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"css-hr9vxw\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"7\">Today&#8217;s heavy rains are expected to fall on already saturated ground, increasing the likelihood of widespread flooding.<\/p>\n<p>Tracking the Tropics<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"10\">Stay with WPBF 25 on air and online for updates.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"12\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpbf.com\/weather\/radar\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Interactive radar<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"13\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpbf.com\/alerts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Severe Weather Alerts <\/a><\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"14\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpbf.com\/article\/get-wpbf-news-on-the-go\/44045247\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WPBF 25 News app<\/a> for the most up-to-date weather alerts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WPBF 25 First Warning meteorologists are tracking severe weather across South Florida as heavy rains continue to impact&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4422,161712,26764,17051,16979,54212,28,30,29,532,1161,2339,17240,12189,26763,173420,326,1160,5200,17409,173418,67905,10173,807,35575,14458,1402,13715,64417,17849,189,173419,97868],"class_list":["post-445544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-effect","tag-first-warning","tag-first-warning-meteorologist","tag-flash-flood-warning","tag-flood-watch","tag-flooding-risk","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-florida-weather","tag-heavy-rain","tag-hour","tag-inch","tag-indian-river-county","tag-interactive-radar","tag-likelihood","tag-martin","tag-martin-county","tag-rainfall","tag-rainfall-totals","tag-saturated-grounds","tag-severe-thunderstorm-warning","tag-severe-weather","tag-south-florida","tag-spot","tag-st-lucie","tag-st-lucie-county","tag-tracking-the-tropics","tag-weather-alerts","tag-widespread-flooding","tag-wpbf","tag-wpbf-25-news-app","tag-wpbf-25"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445544","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=445544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}