Overview

• Salty water inundated low-lying streets in Fort Lauderdale to nearly three feet and flooded parts of Miami on Tuesday, with additional high-water periods expected in the evening.
• Weather service offices posted advisories from the Gulf Coast to New England for minor to moderate coastal flooding, rip current hazards, and difficult travel on beach roads.
• North Myrtle Beach warned of the highest tides through Oct. 10, with a Thursday morning peak and possible seven-foot readings, and urged residents to secure loose items and avoid flooded streets.
• NOAA reports U.S. high-tide flooding now occurs more than twice as often as in 2000, with scientists projecting continued increases as sea levels rise and some land areas subside.
• Communities are urging documentation of tidal impacts, with Miami Beach requesting flooding reports and photos and citizen-science platforms like MyCoast collecting observations; similar high tides are expected again with November and December full moons.