Hurricane Milton, now a post-tropical cyclone and no longer a threat, was a good-for-nothing beast.
Except for one little thing we may feel this weekend: a drop in the temperature and an escape from the phone-dinging heat advisory alerts that have hit almost daily into October.
South Florida woke to temperatures in the mid-70s Friday morning.
Cooler weather
“Behind Milton there was a marked dry air plume that pushed over the area and so we’re definitely seeing those lower dew points and more comfortable temperatures over the area — today into tomorrow,” Ana Torres-Vazquez, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Miami, said on Friday.
That takes us into Saturday on this Columbus Day holiday weekend and another bracing slap to the wet weather-weary.
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Wet weekend holiday
Thunderstorms and showers with potential flooding rain moves into the Miami-Dade and Broward areas Friday afternoon and is expected to linger Sunday and Columbus Day Monday.