October 23, 2026

The main item for the Southeast is Florida's Atlantic coast, where coastal flooding is building into the weekend.

High pressure to the north and a trough of low pressure offshore are combining into a strong northeast wind. The National Weather Service office in Jacksonville has a coastal flood advisory through 2 AM Saturday and a coastal flood watch from late tonight through Monday evening for coastal Nassau, Duval, St. Johns, and Flagler counties, and for the St. Johns River basin including eastern Clay and Putnam counties. The watch extends to coastal Glynn and Camden counties in Georgia. The Jacksonville office expects moderate to near major tidal flooding around high tide, especially Sunday and Monday, and says numerous roads may be closed and low lying homes may be flooded.

Farther south, the Melbourne office has a coastal flood advisory and watch through the weekend for Volusia, Brevard, Indian River, St. Lucie, and Martin counties. The Miami office has advisories for coastal Palm Beach, Broward, and Miami-Dade counties, expects moderate flooding with each high tide, and says major coastal flooding is possible late this weekend into early next week. Miami also expects heavy rain and possible flash flooding in the east coast metro areas Sunday and Monday. The Middle and Upper Keys have an advisory as well.

A coastal flood watch means significant flooding is possible but not yet certain. If you live in a low area near the coast or the St. Johns River, the time to move vehicles to higher ground and lift belongings off the floor is before Sunday's high tides, not during them.

Rip current statements run along the entire Florida Atlantic coast and from Mobile, Alabama to Okaloosa County on the Gulf. On North Carolina's Outer Banks, a beach hazards statement and coastal flood advisory are in effect today for Hatteras Island.

Kentucky, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Tennessee have no alerts in effect.

Recovery from Hurricane Isaias continues in the Florida Panhandle after its landfall near Destin earlier this month. Florida, Alabama, and Georgia each received a federal emergency declaration on October 9. Those declarations fund government response costs rather than household payments.

The National Interagency Fire Center lists no uncontained large fires in the region.

No public health advisories found for the Southeast.

Food recalls posted by the Food and Drug Administration this week include Gelatelli coffee and vanilla gelato sold at Lidl for possible Listeria, Starfish Seafood cold smoked salmon for possible Listeria, and Family Farmstead raw mild cheddar cheese for possible E. coli. The full list, with lot codes, is at fda.gov/recalls.

Two sources we check could not be read this morning: the CDC Health Alert Network, for national health advisories, and AirNow, for air quality readings. Check emergency.cdc.gov/han and airnow.gov directly.

The National Hurricane Center's Atlantic outlook, issued at 8 AM Eastern time, says no tropical cyclone is expected to form in the next seven days. Josephine has become a post-tropical storm and is moving away toward Atlantic Canada.

For Florida's east coast, Sunday and Monday are the days to watch. The Jacksonville office expects a wind advisory for the Atlantic coastal counties this weekend and dangerous surf starting Saturday. Coastal flooding from wind and tide comes on slowly and repeats twice a day, so the pattern to plan around is each high tide. Your local tide time is in the Weather Service's coastal flood products.

Twenty-one years ago tomorrow, on October 24, 2005, Hurricane Wilma came ashore in southwest Florida as a Category 3 storm, according to the National Weather Service in Miami. The season runs through November 30.