Video taking off 16x its usual first day

King tides carry fish onto Fort Lauderdale's pavement

FOX Weather's close-up of tiny fish in shallow floodwater puts an unusual detail of South Florida's coastal flooding in view.

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FOX Weather Story of October 29, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 147,711 views a day, 16 times a normal first day on this channel (9,034).

Fish wash onto pavement during Florida King Tides

Between garden mulch and brick paving, tiny fish wriggle in a shallow stream. Then the camera pulls back, revealing that the water extends beyond the courtyard and across a Fort Lauderdale street lined with palms and apartment buildings.

The footage, credited to David Baltz via Storyful, appears in FOX Weather's Short, "Fish wash onto pavement during Florida King Tides". There is no spoken commentary, just the close-up followed by the wider view of a neighborhood inundated by the tide.

The clip has reached about 165,000 views in a little over a day, with its estimated first-day audience more than sixteen times the channel's usual start for a Short. It turns a familiar coastal-flooding image, water covering normally dry streets, into something more specific: fish carried onto residential paving.

FOX Weather's longer report on the same tidal event is also drawing an unusually large audience for its format. That report describes flooding in low-lying South Florida neighborhoods and record water levels along parts of California's coast. Here, the scale becomes visible through a simple camera movement: from fish struggling beside the garden to floodwater stretching across the road.

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The facts

Channel: FOX Weather
Subscribers: 1,080,000
Channel views, last 7 days: 3,535,063
Channel views, pace per day: 171,837 (on a normal day: 880,780)
Video published: October 28, 2026
Video views so far: 165,087 (less than a day online)
Video views, pace per day: 159,096

The numbers

The fish footage drew a much larger first-day audience than FOX Weather's usual Short. Its longer coastal-flooding report also ran well ahead of its usual start.

the video's first day

usual first day here

9,034

this video

147,711

subscribers

1,080,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

759,631,390

views per day

171,837