“The worst is over for South Florida, but they’ll still see two to four inches today before it’s over,” David Roth, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, said on Thursday.
The system will also bring two to four inches of precipitation to Central Florida, he said, before the storm moves north to the Carolinas in the evening and into Friday.
A flood watch remained in effect for Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties on Thursday.
The storms were driven by a low pressure system and warm waters in the Gulf colliding with cooler air and water on the state’s Atlantic coast, Roth said.
The severity and frequency of major storms affecting the U.S. in recent years is linked to global warming. This year’s Atlantic hurricane season, which officially runs from June 1 to Nov. 30, has been another in a string with above average activity.