Broward County. I’m happy to let you know that any storms that earlier produced rotation have
moved out of the area, so we’re
a bit more tranquil. Now we can
get out and assess the damage.
I’ll keep an eye on this gusty
storm right here. Just off the
coast of Broward. I think that
will mostly miss us. Maybe we
watch right around their field
beach to see if we get clipped
by that one, and I’ll let you
know if it starts to show signs
of rotation is definitely want
to keep an eye on. In the
meantime, what we are left with
is a flash flood. Morning around
the Cooper City and Davie area.
We’ve had several inches of
rainfall here and though there
are currently no downpours in
this area, we may still be
dealing with standing water.
That is more than just the
nuisance. So flash flood warning
until 10 15 10 30 tonight around
Davey Plantation in Cooper City
. Let’s see what else is going
on on the Doppler radar. I
mentioned that storm just
offshore that I’ll be watching
for rotational quickly put the
velocity product on and just see
if I’m noticing. Anything
interesting with that one as
it’s coming in, and maybe some
signs of some broad rotation
with this one, so I’ll keep an
eye on it. It’s moving
northwestward and like I said
around Deerfield Beach, Pompano
Beach that’s going to be worth
watching. Over the next few
minutes. The storms tending to
move at a speed of 25 miles per
hours. So before you know it,
they’re on top of you. And
before you know it in some cases
You’re dealing with that
rotation that’s coming into some
of your neighborhoods, catching
a nice break from the rainfall
through south Broward, down
through much of Miami Dade were
nice and quiet. Few little
storms right here. Those are
going to come in around deep
south Miami Dade. So on the
southern end, end up homestead
will watch out in Homestead in
general may get caught up in
some of those gusty storms, and
then More of the this band.
Really that I’m tracking from
Palm Beach County, extending all
the way out toward the Atlantic
Water’s hopefully, most of that
misses us in Broward. I think
we’re going to have that more
north of us instead of just
slamming right into Broward, but
that’s another area to watch as
well. In the meantime, here is
the eye of Hurricane Ian, making
that pass west of the lower keys
. We’ve watched this go through
the eye wall replacement cycle
tonight. Really interesting to
see that playing out. Since
we’ve now got this hurricane
within radar range the key West
radar range at that, so let’s
see how far away the center or
the eye of Ian is from Key West
, and it kind of close right
about 50 miles away as it’s
passing by to the West, So that
in itself is interesting, not to
mention the fact that the wind
filled has been expanding. I
think that’s just Really helping
to make it possible for us to
have those storms rotating over
parts of date and Broward like
we’re seeing tonight. Here’s key
West when Gust right now, 71
MPH, So that is the high end of
Tropical Storm force wind gusts
as Ian makes its closest
approach southeast winds 71 MPH.
The other thing. Now that we’ve
got that southeasterly wind flow
going and going strong storm
surge. Remember the storm surge
forecasts for the keys?
Reasonable. Worst Case scenario
2 to 4 ft. So we’ve got to watch
for that tonight, especially as
we get towards high tide at the
midnight hour. I’ll leave you
with some of the wind gusts
coming in around my knee day
tonight. Winds gusting to about
26 MPH. It’s really going to be
more like Tomorrow when I think
Miami Dade gets into some
stronger winds and then starts
to experience those gusts more a
lot more often from 40 to 50 MPH
. But right now, the key is
getting the strongest because
that’s where hurricane in is
passing closest to another. Look
at what we’re seeing a flash
flood warning around baby and
Cooper Cooper City also a flash
flood warning around north Miami
and Surfside Ventura as well,
though the heavy rainfall has
ended in these Areas. For the
moment. We’ve just had so much,
though it’s going to take a
little while for the areas that
may be seeing or have seen flash
flooding for the rainfall, the
water that’s standing to sort of
drain away. So this is the
current situation for us here in
South Florida. I’m here tracking
the storms as some of them
capable of rotating as they come
in associated with Hurricane
Ian. Tonight we are under a
tornado watch through the
overnight hours, so as we get
later into the night and head
into tomorrow, we’re still going