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Short Term Forecast

National Weather Service Key West FL

456 PM EDT Tue Oct 21 2025



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Monroe Lower Keys-

Gulf of America including Dry Tortugas and Rebecca Shoal Channel-

Hawk Channel from west end of Seven Mile Bridge to Halfmoon Shoal

out to the reef-

Straits of Florida from west end of Seven Mile Bridge to south of

Halfmoon Shoal out 20 NM-

Straits of Florida from Halfmoon Shoal to 20 NM west of Dry Tortugas

out 20 NM-

Straits of Florida from west end of Seven Mile Bridge to south of

Halfmoon Shoal 20 to 60 NM out-

Straits of Florida from Halfmoon Shoal to 20 NM west of Dry Tortugas

20 to 60 NM out-

Including the Communities of Key West

456 PM EDT Tue Oct 21 2025



.NOW...

Through 6 pm, widely scattered showers will track westward at around

10 knots, across the Florida Straits south and west of the Marquesas

Keys, the offshore Gulf waters, especially surrounding the Dry 

Tortugas, and the nearshore waters of the Lower Keys. This activity 

will produce wind gusts of 20 to 25 knots and blinding downpours.



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MJV