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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — South Florida is continuing to deal with king tides this week.

The peak of king tide season in the region officially arrived Wednesday morning as water was seen slowing down traffic and seeping out of storm drains along State Road A1A in Broward County.

The annual king tide season refers to periods of exceptionally high, and predictable tides that cause low-lying areas to flood.

It happens when the year’s highest astronomical tides coincide with new or full moons at the same time that coastal areas deal with the upward creep of groundwater levels, straining localized drainage systems.

“Right now, the system that it is out there, it works by gravity,” said Jesus Sarmiento with the Florida Department of Transportation. “That system most of the time floods, as everybody knows when we have king tide and heavy rainfall events.”