FPREN Weather

Florida’s first big beach-and-boat weekend is also one of its easiest weekends to underestimate. Lightning can strike while the sun is still out nearby, thunder means you are already close enough to be hit, and the safest shelter is not a tent, pavilion, or golf cart.

If you plan to travel to the beach this Memorial Day Weekend, it is advised to stay out of the ocean due to high waves. Frequent rip currents are expected across the entire east coast of Florida and the Panhandle. Thunderstorms are also possible Saturday and Sunday with rain showers on Memorial Day. Expect this weekend to also be hot and humid with high UV and heat indices.

A high-pressure system will keep the fronts well north of Florida, but energy impulses will bring rounds of storms that will affect different regions of Florida.

NOAA’s outlook for the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season predicts below-normal activity as an impending El Niño will lead to increased wind shear across the basin.

Florida’s rainy season doesn’t begin all at once, and it doesn’t behave the same way all summer. It tends to build across the state, then shift through three distinct phases.

The weather pattern changes in Florida as the rainy season starts. Rain is needed and welcomed.

Drought report data runs weekly, with the data running between Tuesday and Tuesday, its release is on Thursdays.

The National Hurricane Center released its first daily outlook for the Atlantic, Caribbean and Gulf on Friday which showed no tropical activity was expected over the next week.

Two EF-0 tornadoes touched down in Pasco County, Florida, on Tuesday afternoon, causing minor damage to homes and trees.

It will all be about the shift in winds! Temperatures will warm into the weekend with more sunshine.

Pop-up thunderstorms may develop damaging wind gusts and small hail across the state between now and Wednesday. Flash flooding is possible in localized areas.

Numerous storms are forecast for Tuesday and Wednesday. Smoke could impact western Broward suburbs.