South Florida under a NEXT Weather Alert Saturday evening for heavy rain

The NEXT Weather Team has issued a NEXT Weather Alert for Saturday evening as heavy rainfall and localized flooding become increasingly likely across South Florida. CBS News Miami A cold front interacting with deep tropical moisture will bring widespread showers and thunderstorms, with the greatest impacts favored along the east coast metro areas.Coastal Broward County may be particularly vulnerable to street flooding for two reasons:High-resolution forecast models suggest this area could be more favorable for training or backbuilding thunderstorms, allowing repeated rounds of heavy rainfall over the same locations and increasing the potential for significant rainfall accumulations.Recent heavy rainfall has left soils saturated in some areas (or close to it), limiting their ability to absorb much additional rainfall. As a result, it may take less rain than usual (or less than in other parts of our market) to overwhelm drainage s