BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A shark was spotted swimming through a flooded parking lot near the Boynton Beach Inlet on Friday, as heavy rains and a King Tide pushed ocean water into streets.<\/p>\n
The rare sighting was caused by a perfect storm of King Tides and daily torrential rain, which raised ocean levels and temporarily displaced marine life.<\/p>\n
See also: Tropical wave shows signs of life in the eastern Atlantic, but development remains slow<\/a><\/p>\n While the King Tide ended on Friday, the shark may not be the only unexpected visitor in the streets. <\/p>\n If you encounter a shark in flood waters, stay safe\u2014don\u2019t approach or touch it. Contact the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) at 1-888-404-3922 for help.<\/p>\n Find more ways to stay up to date with your latest local news. Sign up for our newsletter<\/a> to get the day’s top headlines delivered right to your inbox. Subscribe to our YouTube channel<\/a> for the biggest stories and can’t miss video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A shark was spotted swimming through a flooded parking lot near the Boynton…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217321,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[123003,123004,64471,45982,92466,20194,25614,79,8207,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-217320","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-boynton-beach","9":"tag-flooded","10":"tag-florida-fish-and-wildlife-conservation-commission","11":"tag-heavy-rains","12":"tag-king-tide","13":"tag-marine-life","14":"tag-parking-lot","15":"tag-science","16":"tag-shark","17":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}