Let's assume that you won some radio station's contest for two tickets to the Indiana v Miami national championship football game Monday night. Great! Uncle Mike is helping out with travel suggestions. American Airlines has a major hub in Miami. Here is one way to get there: You will want to leave Saturday morning so you have time to practice your Spanish while enjoying Miami's many cultures and attractions before the big game Monday night. Saturday: You get up in the middle of the night to get to the airport. The TSA gives you a free massage and then you board your mini-jet to New York's JFK. You sit there about five hours admiring the ridiculously overpriced bottles of water in the stores and then board your luxury liner  (sorry, nothing "luxurious" about flying any more) Ignore the luxury liner  words. American no longer puts that on its planes. for Miami.  From Miami International Airport, you take your taxi or Uber to your hotel where the management has ...

The area outlined in pink is where flash flooding is likely from now until sunset. Above is the radar as of 4:55p,    --- original (still valid) posting --- The purple area, which includes Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, and Naples has a high risk of of flash flooding again today. Remember: turn around, don't drown. The majority of flash flood fatalities occur in associated with someone attempting to cross a flooded area by foot or by car. 

The Heaviest Rains Have Moved South of Miami. Below is the rainfall for the 12 hours ending at 8pm.  72-hour rainfalls are in excess of 20 inches in places! The update below was posted at 7:15pm Extreme flooding for parts of Miami-dade and Broward Counties.  This is a life-threatening situation.  6:35pm: Forecast is For More Heavy Rain Next Three Hours in the Area Outlined in Purple. The Heaviest Rains are Along and  South of Alligator Alley NWS assessment at 5pm: Below is the map of 12hr hour rainfall to 6pm. As much as 14 inches have fallen near the Dade-Broward border at the coast. Here is the latest flight information 7p. Many flights are cancelled. Among those that are not: At Ft. Lauderdale, among the flights that aren't cancelled, there is an average seven hour  delay.  Here is the radar from7pm. Torrential rains continue to fall.  Earlier Updates: The heavy rains continue to fall in southern Florida. Below are the rainfall amounts over the past...

11:30pm radar: The rains are getting started.  --- original posting still valid --- Florida has been suffering from drought recently.  The good news is that rain is on the way. The bad news is that it will probably be too much, too fast in many parts of the southern Peninsula. Below is the NWS's rainfall forecast for the next seven days.  Here is a close-up of the forecast rain in the south. The storms begin tonight.  Please don't consider these forecast amounts to be exact. However, a major rain event is extremely likely, so please prepare accordingly. 

Here is the updated south Florida rainfall forecast valid from 7p this evening until 7am Friday. Moderate to, in places, serious flooding in likely I-95 corridor from Palm Beach to Miami. Please plan accordingly.  There is a video showing the low pressure system in the Gulf (non-tropical) approaching Florida, here . 

Representative Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez says "Miami will not exist in a few years." In my dictionary, a "few" means a "small number" and most interpret that to be three or four. Whatever the exact number of years, someone better tell the Miami banks that are offering 30 year mortgages!   After all, the city won't exist "in a few years." Keep in mind, these low rates are directly correlated with the fact that both hurricanes and sea level rise are judged by the smart money to be very low risk over the next three decades (remember, if the property is destroyed, the loan likely cannot be repaid). Or, are they still offering these very low rates (which implies very low risk) mortgages because no one truly believes the catastrophic global warming nonsense?  I think you know the answer. It is the same answer that is fueling the hotel boom in the Maldives .