Tomorrow is forecast to be nearly the same temperature as today.
Nowcast as of 4:01 PM EST on November 9, 2009
Now
Widely scattered showers will continue to move inland off of the Atlantic Ocean and affect the eastern portion of Mainland South Florida through 6 PM EST. This activity will be most concentrated across Palm Beach County...generally north of a line extending from Belle Glade to Boca Raton. Wind gusts around 30 mph and brief heavy downpours...resulting in rainfall rates up to one quarter of an inch per hour...can be expected with the strongest showers. All activity will move west-northwestward at 25 to 30 mph.
Forecast for Coastal Palm Beach County
Updated: 3:07 PM EST on November 9, 2009
High risk of rip currents...
Rest of This Afternoon and Evening
Partly sunny. Windy. Isolated showers.
Tonight
Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers. Breezy. Lows in the upper 70s. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph.
Tuesday
Partly sunny with a 20 percent chance of showers. Highs in the mid 80s. Southeast winds around 15 mph.
Mostly cloudy with chance of showers and slight chance of thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
Veterans Day
Mostly cloudy with showers likely and chance of thunderstorms. Some thunderstorms may produce heavy rainfall. Highs in the mid 80s. South winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 60 percent.
Wednesday Night
Partly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers. Cooler. Lows 66 to 70. West winds around 10 mph.
Thursday
Partly sunny with a 20 percent chance of showers. Breezy. Highs in the upper 70s.
Thursday Night
Partly cloudy. Breezy...cooler. Lows 60 to 64.
Friday
Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
Friday Night
Partly cloudy. Lows 62 to 66.
Saturday
Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
Saturday Night
Partly cloudy. Lows 65 to 69.
Sunday through Monday
Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 80s. Lows in the upper 60s.
Sustained east winds of 25 to 30 mph with gusts up to 40 mph are possible along the East Coast beaches of South Florida today. This will lead to strong and dangerous rip currents along the beaches of maimi-Dade... Broward... and Palm Beach counties today. People are not advised to go swimming in the Atlantic waters today.
Moderate beach erosion has also been reported along the East Coast beaches of South Florida this morning from the beach patrol lifeguards. The moderate beach erosion will continue through today due to the strong easterly winds.
The beach patrol lifeguards at Palm Beach County have also reported 8 foot breakers this morning along their beaches. These breakers should continue through the afternoon hours along the beaches of Palm Beach County.
Precautionary/preparedness actions...
A rip current is a 10 to 30 yard wide channel of water that can pull even a strong swimmer from near or inside The Sand Bar into deeper water. Due to the life threatening dangers that these strong currents of water pose... swimming is not advised.
Swimming is not advised today. However... if you do go into the water swim at guarded beaches and heed the advice of the beach patrol. If caught in the seaward pull of a rip current do not attempt to move directly toward shore. Instead... move sideways across the rip current until the pull eases.
An alternate method of escape is to let the rip current pull you seaward 50 to 100 yards... where the force weakens... and then swim toward the beach at an angle away from the current.
